Does she remind anyone of Kou Shibasaki? Their eyes and cool femme fatale demeanor.

They're both gorgeous.

I've never really looked at her that way.


New album + single collection. Looks like she's trying to get her singing career back on track. ... or trying to pay the bills.
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dunno if she would continue her singing career but she's doing some commercials recently.

Coca Cola Sokenbicha


wanna see the CM ?
http://www.sokenbicha.jp/cm/index.shtml

Road Safety Campaign

Better than nothing.
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SPEED's Takako Uehara gets first starring movie role in "Koitanibashi"
Tue, January 18, 2011
SPEED member Takako Uehara has been given her first starring role in a movie. She will headline the cast of "Koitanibashi: La Vallee de l'amour," directed by Koichi Goto, set for release this summer.

As an actress, Uehara won a Japan Academy Prize Rookie of the Year award for her role in the 1999 movie "Dream Maker." She has appeared in several other films since then, with her last one being the 2008 movie "Yume no Manimani."

In "Koitanibashi," Uehara plays Tomoko, a young woman who had headed to Tokyo to pursue her dreams but returns in frustration to her hometown. There, she becomes an okami (proprietress) at a hot spring inn and turns her life around. The story is based on "Ame no Naka no Hatsukoi: First Love in the Rain," a script that won the 1st Super Scenario Grand Prix.

Producers chose the Tottori prefecture for filming, which took place in November and December of last year.

Uehara's supporting cast includes Kensei Mikami, Miyuki Matsuda, Ichiro Ogura, Yuko Nakazawa, Hassei Takano, Mayuko Iwasa, Daijiro Kawaoka, Anna Tsuchiya, Shingo Katsurayama, Renji Ishibashi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, and Hiroki Matsukata.

Some new mag scans of Takako, don't notice her as much as the other Speed members but she's sure grown into quite an attractive lady.


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SPEED’s Uehara Takako attends stage greeting for “Koitanibashi”


SPEED’s Uehara Takako attended the stage greeting at the opening day of her movie, “Koitanibashi“, along with co-star Mikami Kensei and director Goto Koichi.

In “Koitanibashi”, Uehara portrays a young woman who returns from Tokyo to Tottori prefecture after losing her job. She then undertakes the mission of reviving her parents’ inn at the Misasa Onsen (hot spring), and eventually becomes its mistress. The story was based off of “Ame no Naka no Hatsukoi First Love in the Rain“, which was the winner of 2008’s ‘The 1st Super Scenario Grand Pix‘.

Uehara, who also celebrates her first starring role with this movie, commented, “Misasa is a place where can forget to bring a long a lunch box, but you better not forget your umbrella. It really did rain a lot and I often went into the onsen when I was getting cold. The filming was tough, but thanks to the Misasa Onsen it actually felt like I was getting more healthier.” Further she added, “Everyone in the town helped out with the filming, which is why it became such a perfect movie.”

The singer/actress also revealed that her fellow SPEED members have yet to watch the movie. She said, “I think none of them have been to Misasa yet, so I’d like to go there will all of them and act like their guide. We always talk about, how we’ve never been on a private trip together. We only travel the country together when we are having a live tour.”

About her role as a chef in the movie, Uehara said, “In private I basically don’t cook at all, but thanks to the coaching of a master chef I somehow was able to do it. The Tottori dialect was extremely difficult as well, but I’ve tried my best while studying the dialect of the locals.”

Director Goto commented, “The opening day is always exciting. It feels like our child is finally able to walk on his own. I hope this movie will be able to give a lot of people strength.”



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