A 20-year marriage is a meaningful milestone and especially when it comes with top star couples under the brightest of limelight. Top J-star Kimura Takuya and his two daughters celebrated the 50th birthday of Kudo Shizuka this past week, she’s a few years older than KimuTaku and back then it was yet another ding against her when news broke that she was with the biggest star in J-ent. Shizuka basically retired from her own singing career when she married KimuTaku 20 years ago in 2000 and raised their two daughter both of whom have debuted within the past year to modeling careers. They are a notoriously private family when raising their kids but now both are grown so it’s nice to see KimuTaku make public posts about his wife who truly put up with a lot and its wonder to see them make it with such happiness around them.
aww beautiful family. congrats and stay happy
Happy birthday to Kudo Shizuka! Such beautiful family!
As a superstar and member of Johnny’s he really shook the industry and defied everyone when he got married. New drama fans nowadays have no idea how big he was back in the late 90s / early 2000s. I’m glad it all worked out and he remains happy with his family.
Good for them! I remember it making news when SMAP disbanded, and that was when its members were all in their 40s. Can’t imagine how much of a bigger fuss it would have caused to see an idol getting married in his 20s, it was controversial even when an Arashi member did it.
I was a fan of Shizuka Kudo’s music before SMAP and her Expose album was my first JPOP music that inspired me to learn Japanese in 1995. She got soooo much hate and still do for being with KimuTaku but I think they are well matched and both talented. I am glad they are are a happy family.
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