I’m sure every one who has watched more than a few episodes of Iron Chef has seen Mayuko Takata. (Click here for her Japanese page with a recent picture.) She was a frequent guest and judge on the program. I will admit that she has always been one of my favorite judges. (If for no other reason than I think she’s beautiful.) Anyway, I had never been able to find any of her other programs, until now. Be prepared to see Mayuko Takata in a setting very different from Kitchen Stadium.
This addition to Beyond Kitchen Stadium is the 7th episode of the Japanese drama Keizoku (aka Unsolved Cases), in which Mayuko Takata is a guest star. In this episode (O.A. 2/19/1999), Takata plays the young director of an art gallery where her father was murdered 6 years ago. Will the detectives of the unsolved cases unit be able to solve the mystery? (This episode is in Japanese, with English subtitles. And while these pictures are in black and white, the episode is in color.)
This video, along with all of our Beyond Kitchen Stadium videos, can be found in our video database.
I will have a few more Mayuko Takata videos to add in the weeks ahead. Do you have a favorite guest or judge that you have also seen on other programs? Let me know where you saw them, and we’ll do our best to track down the video. And as always, if you have any video or audio of a guest, judge, challenger, or other regular cast member, please let us know and we’ll post it for everyone to see.