Actor Chii Takeo (61) has married a former model twelve years his junior. The couple spent last year with his 28-year old daughter at her New York home. Chii lost his former wife to cancer in 2001, a tragedy that eerily echoed the role he was playing at the time in the classic drama “Kita no Kuni Kara”. He went through a period of deep depression following his wife’s death and met his current wife after she wrote a letter of consolation to him. Identified only as “A-san,” she is a divorcee with a 24-year old son.