Famous People with Name Atsuko

Atsuko Kawada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Atsuko Kawada: an actress, singer, essayist, and novelist. She works through the Last Scene talent management firm. She attended Meiji University Nakano Junior and Senior High School before transferring to Tokyo Municipal Yoyogi High School, where she graduated.In 1981, Kawada making an impression in the Shueisha "Miss Young Jump" Grand Prix, she appeared as a regular on the popular TBS television show Tanokin Zenryoku Tokyu". She made her singing debut with Secret Orgel (????????, Himitsu no Orugoru?), released in 1982 by CBS Sony. The song was used in a commercial for House Foods. In that same year, she made her acting debut with the main heroine role in the TBS drama Ningen Banji Saio ga Hinoe Uma (??????????).

Atsuko Ishizuka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Atsuko Ishizuka: a Japanese animator and director at Madhouse, one of the leading animation production companies in the world. She was born on September 30, 1981 and has been with Madhouse since 2004. Her blood type is AB.Ishizuka's journey to becoming an animator was rather unusual by industry standards in Japan. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she did not grow up watching anime on television, but rather developed an interest in music and graphic arts. Upon graduating high school, she decided to focus on graphic design and entered the Aichi Prefecture University of the Arts. While there, she was prompted to do an arts project and chose to do an animated video because it would allow her to combine her two areas of interest. In this way, she entered the animation world not attempting to secure a career, but to make art for art's sake.

Atsuko Nakajima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Atsuko Nakajima: a Japanese animator, character designer, and illustrator. She is married to anime director and animator Tomohiro Hirata, with whom she also collaborated in the Trinity Blood anime (in which Nakajima was character designer and Hirata was director).Ms. Nakajima is strongly associated with the animated adaptations of the works of Rumiko Takahashi produced by Kitty Films, having worked as an animation director on Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and Maison Ikkoku and as a character designer on Ranma 1/2.

Atsuko Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Atsuko Tanaka: was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist.She went to several local art schools where she worked in mostly figurative mode. The schools she had attended were the Art Institute of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art in 1950,and from 1951 on, the Department of Western Painting at Kyoto Municipal College of Art (now Kyoto City University of Arts). There, she had made friends with a man named Akira Kanayama, who had helped her explore new artistic territories. In 1955

Atsuko Shimoda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Atsuko Shimoda: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hirosaki, Aomori and graduate of Akita Junior College (now Akita Eiyo Junior College), she was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004 after serving in the city assembly of Hirosaki for three terms.

Maeda Atsuko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Atsuko: a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 TeamA. Her nickname is Acchan.In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (????????????, "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata"?) This is her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film August 20th,2006 and finished it in the end of September. She had her hair cut short for creating her part. She auditioned for this film before she was elected this role.AKB48 released "AITAKATTA" from the major label "DefSTER Records Inc.". (Before this disk, two disks were released as indies disks.) In this song, 20 members are selected from the 36 members (in TeamA & TeamK). Maeda is one of this selected member, and she performed leading role in the promortion video in this song.