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Former actress Tate Mayuko (31), the niece of actress Natsume Masako, who died of leukemia in 1985 at the young age of 27, appeared on TBS's "Bakuhou! THE Friday" and talked about the twists and turns in her life.
Caption: Strange makeup
Tate was born in 1988. Her father was Natsume Masako's older brother. Her parents divorced when she was 3 years old and Tate and her mother moved to Furano, Hokkaido, where her maternal grandparents lived. During a school arts festival in her third year of elementary school, Tate found her goal in life: to become an actress. Aware of her daughter's dream, Tate's mother contacted and talked face to face with Tate's paternal grandmother, Natsume Masako's mother, about Tate entering show business. With Tate's grandmother's help, Tate was able to join an entertainment agency, but after that, Tate would come to experience the "Heaven and Hell" of "Natsume Masako's Nanahikari*."
*Nanahikari: Capitalising on the fame of a parent/relative
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| 2010: Retired from show business at 22 |
Tate made a high profile debut, playing the daughter of the heroine, Tanaka Misato, in the NHK Asadora, "Aguri" (aired 1997). She was picked up by the media as "Natsume Masako's niece" and gradually started to attract the public's attention. However, what awaited her after she entered high school was callous bashing. People started comparing her with Natsume, badmouthing and calling her appearance inferior. There were cruel comments on online bulletin boards such as, "Her aunt is beautiful but she's ugly." Tate revealed the distress she felt at the time, "I was extremely shocked. Her aunt is beautiful but she's ugly. It hurt to hear them call me a 'Walmart version.'"
Natsume Masako
During filming, they would order her to "Make your acting more like Natsume Masako-san." "My aunt, Natsume Masako's existence became my shackles." Tate felt trapped and retired from the entertainment industry at the age of twenty two. She was a shut-in for over a year and married at twenty three years old. After her divorce, she became a single mother.
Married a non-celebrity at 23, divorced after one year. Blue circle: Son
She currently lives with her mother and her seven year old son. However, life is tough, and she confessed that she is in debt, "I've reduced the debt down to around 2 million yen though." She works at a hostess bar three times a week, earning 150 thousand yen a month, and makes her living as a voice training teacher the rest of the time.
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| Works at hostess bar 3 times a week, earns 150,000 yen/month |
Kataoka Tsurutaro, who found out about Tate's situation, made a surprise guest appearance on the show. Tate and Kataoka co-starred in the period drama, "Hatchōbori no Shichinin." Kataoka, who Tate looks up to as a "father" gave Tate warm and strict words of encouragement. His advice to Tate, who had been chained by the label, "Natsume Masako's niece", and had given up hope, was: "Don't lay all the blame on other people. It has nothing to do with them! No matter what other people say, you must have your own resolve do things your own way. Otherwise you'll lose sight of your path in life. Don't care about what other people think." Tate cried hearing Kataoka's words, and thanked him, "It's given me courage."
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>>1
She was cute before!
157. [+74 / -1]
>>1
When someone tries to use connections to become famous, most of the time it ruins the relationship between that person's parents and relatives.
>>1
She was cute before!
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>>1
When someone tries to use connections to become famous, most of the time it ruins the relationship between that person's parents and relatives.
2. [+1627 / -77]
She looks kinda pitiful
3. [+2165 / -114]
She's pretty, so why?
5. [+99 / -147]
Looks a bit like Kitagawa Keiko
6. [+1626 / -8]
Looks like she has lots of inner demons
Reminds me of Sakaguchi Anri
7. [+2571 / -82]
It must be hard to be compared an aunt who's so beautiful.
8. [+2001 / -20]
Please forgive my rudeness but she looks like a dɾᴜggie...
9. [+3581 / -15]
She says that she was shackled by Natsume Masako's name but if she wasn't Natsume's niece, she wouldn't have even been able to appear on TV.
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>>9
Summed up in one sentence
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>>9
In that case, she shouldn't have used Natsume Masako's name
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>>9
She tried using Natsume Masako's name but didn't succeed, that's all. You can't call that being shackled or anything.
Especially as she's not even her daughter, she's just a niece.
>>9
Summed up in one sentence
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>>9
In that case, she shouldn't have used Natsume Masako's name
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>>9
She tried using Natsume Masako's name but didn't succeed, that's all. You can't call that being shackled or anything.
Especially as she's not even her daughter, she's just a niece.
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Whoaa... Mentally unstable...
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Her victim mentally is too strong. She was the one who used her aunt's name in the first place.
She should step back, take a look at herself, and have an honest think about why she couldn't fulfill her dream of being in the limelight.
14. [+675 / -5]
Did she purposely do her makeup to look like a sickly person?
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Well, the only reason she could debut was because she was Natsume Masako's niece.
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Her makeup... Gives off an "unlucky aura"
17. [+547 / -26]
She would be pretty if she gave herself normal makeup...
18. [+443 / -15]
So her singing career didn't work out in the end.
[Related article: "Natsume Masako's Niece, Mayula's First Single, "Juuyon Hikari (14 lights)"]
*Reference to Nanahikari (7 lights)
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She didn't make the best of her blessed environment. What a waste.
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Her old face is cuter. Is it the makeup?
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>>20
Just looks like she's been through hardship
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>>20
The old photo was just taken really really well.
>>20
Just looks like she's been through hardship
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>>20
The old photo was just taken really really well.
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She would have given a lot of preferential treatment because she was Natsume Masako's niece. It's egoistic for her to say that Natsume Masako's name shackled her just because she didn't make it.
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She was born after Natsume Masako-san passed away. Even if they tell her to make her acting more like Natsume Masako-san, for her it'll be like, "I don't know how."
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Looks like a bad camera shot of Nicole.
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Why does she have debts? Why is she a hostess?
Her story doesn't add up
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Does she have a bad taste in men, I wonder
She was pretty...
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Natsume Masako has a niece in the Takarazuka, right?
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>>26
Now this niece seems like she's holding up very well.
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>>26
Yep, she's a rising Takarazuka star.
She's pretty and works hard so I'm rooting for her.
For me, Natsume Masako's niece is the Takarazuka kid so I was a bit shocked when I read the title, lol
>>26
Now this niece seems like she's holding up very well.
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>>26
Yep, she's a rising Takarazuka star.
She's pretty and works hard so I'm rooting for her.
For me, Natsume Masako's niece is the Takarazuka kid so I was a bit shocked when I read the title, lol
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I don't think it's good to reveal things like this.
It's disrespectful to Natsume Masako-san.
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There was a photo floating around online where she had different makeup but she didn't look like Natsume Masako.
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She's the kid that appeared in Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu, right?
She was pretty.
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>>29
No she isn't.
That actress' name is Mayuko too though.
Easy mistake
>>29
No she isn't.
That actress' name is Mayuko too though.
Easy mistake
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People who die young tend to be treated like legends.
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>>30
Yeah, like Ozaki Yutaka and hide, etc.
>>30
Yeah, like Ozaki Yutaka and hide, etc.
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She looked better before, her makeup looks dirty, it's a waste of her looks.
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Natsume Masako's niece, Kazama Yuno, is a Takarazienne, right?
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Well, money isn't going to come rolling in just because you're Natsume Masako's niece...
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Aren't there more generations who don't know who Natsume Masako is than generations who do?
Especially kids her age.
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>>34
Natsume Masako is still really popular in Girls Channel but youngsters don't even know who she is.
>>34
Natsume Masako is still really popular in Girls Channel but youngsters don't even know who she is.
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She retired early at 22 years old but she looks more like 41 than 31.
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She has debts but only works three times a week?!
She still doesn't live in the real world, does she?
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>>38
Nah, the Natsume Family is basically part of the upper class, they're rich so she's not actually pressed for money at all. This is the common rich kid poverty act.
>>38
Nah, the Natsume Family is basically part of the upper class, they're rich so she's not actually pressed for money at all. This is the common rich kid poverty act.
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>>71
But, based on what's written in the article, after her parents divorced, didn't she go with her mother, not her Natsume-family father? Since the Natsume Family didn't take custody of her after the divorce even though she's one of their own, she's standing in a awkward position.
Her dad would have probably paid for child-support. He's not under the obligation to pay off the debts his adult daughter accrued on her own.
>>71
But, based on what's written in the article, after her parents divorced, didn't she go with her mother, not her Natsume-family father? Since the Natsume Family didn't take custody of her after the divorce even though she's one of their own, she's standing in a awkward position.
Her dad would have probably paid for child-support. He's not under the obligation to pay off the debts his adult daughter accrued on her own.
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Since she used Natsume Masako's name, it's impossible to expect people to not look for Natsume Masako in her.
Did they not tell her that this would happen if she used Natsume Masako's name?
Things might have turned out a bit differently if she had hidden her aunt's name, and then revealed it later after she got a bit popular.
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She was really cute when she was 22.
But she looks old and sick in bottom photo.
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She's the daughter of Natsume Masako-san's older brother. Even though her parents are divorced and she was living with her mother in Hokkaido, she wanted to be an actress, so she asked her grandmother for help. She was 100% relying on connections but couldn't even make the most of her privileged debut, which means she had no talent, no ability and didn't even put in any effort.
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>>46
The whole situation is shameless. If you look at it from the grandmother's perspective, her son's ex-wife, who has been living in Hokkaido, suddenly appears and orders her to help Tate debut using her dead daughter's name just because she's her granddaughter. And after her career fails, her granddaughter goes on TV to say that it's her dead daughter's fault.
I don't know what sort of relationship Tate's mother had with her ex-husband after the divorce, but would your normally ask your ex-mother-in-law for something like this? You normally wouldn't. The grandmother is the most pitiful one in this story.
>>46
The whole situation is shameless. If you look at it from the grandmother's perspective, her son's ex-wife, who has been living in Hokkaido, suddenly appears and orders her to help Tate debut using her dead daughter's name just because she's her granddaughter. And after her career fails, her granddaughter goes on TV to say that it's her dead daughter's fault.
I don't know what sort of relationship Tate's mother had with her ex-husband after the divorce, but would your normally ask your ex-mother-in-law for something like this? You normally wouldn't. The grandmother is the most pitiful one in this story.
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It's strange that they're calling her an Asadora actress just because she had a small role in an Asadora. My impression of the word "Asadora actress" is the heroine.
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The photo in the OP is just a good photo.
I looked her up, and her other photos are not so great.
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>>66
Oh! I remember her!
I recognise that second photo where she's wearing purple!
If I remember correctly, at that time I thought, "Whoa, so ugly! Niece... such a distant relative w"
"Extreme use of connections, huh"
I wasn't around when Natsume Masako was alive but at that time I thought 'this is so bad.'
The first picture in >>1 is cute so it almost rewrote my memories.
>>66
Oh! I remember her!
I recognise that second photo where she's wearing purple!
If I remember correctly, at that time I thought, "Whoa, so ugly! Niece... such a distant relative w"
"Extreme use of connections, huh"
I wasn't around when Natsume Masako was alive but at that time I thought 'this is so bad.'
The first picture in >>1 is cute so it almost rewrote my memories.
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I looked up her instagram
(Instagram bio)
🗝Person kept in richly coloured darkness🗝
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#Singer #Actress #Gravure #AdultGravure
1st 🎧Now on sale
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🦋 Age of adults 🦋
#Menhera #MenheraJoshi #Yandere
❤️ Love ❤️
*Menhera: Sickly cute style
[Link to Instagram]
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She doesn't have the type of looks that is popular with everyone.
That old photo in the first post is a miracle shot.
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