He uninhibitedly chides Kiriko for her lapses at work, but his personal life is shrouded in mystery. The work leader at the pinball parlor where Kiriko works part-time as a cleaner. She has won the NHK Broadcast Culture Award in 2008, and the Purple Ribbon Medal of Honor in 2009.

She has also appeared in many other NHK works including the morning drama serials GeGeGe no Nyobo, Here Comes Asa and Manpuku. For NHK she played the heroine Nohime in the 1973 Taiga Drama Kunitori Monogatari, and has since performed in nine Taiga Drama works including Atsuhime, Burning Flower and Segodon, marking the record number of appearances at the time. In 1969 she was scouted by Daiei Film Company to make her screen debut, and since then she has gone on to become a leading actress in Japan, winning such prestigious awards as the Japan Academy Award, the Blue Ribbon Award, the Hochi Film Award, and the Kinema Junpo Award, all for best leading actress. Her hobby is haiku-writing, and it was in a haiku-writing club where she had met Tomoko.īorn in 1952, Matsuzaka Keiko was given the opportunity to concurrently learn various arts from a young age by her parents, who wished for her to 'become a beautiful lady like Ingrid Bergman.' In 1960 she joined the Kurumi Children's Choir. Then one day she sees news coverage of a senior-aged man who had committed shoplifting for the purpose of going to prison, and finding attraction in spending her own remaining life in prison, she begins her 'prison challenge.' She clumsily but intently schemes criminal plans, and gets various people around her involved in her endeavors.

With no caretakers and little money in the bank, she leads days of desolation. When her best friend Miyazaki Tomoko dies after living together for three years, she falls into despair.

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