Director/actor/comedian Kitano “Beat” Takeshi (57) gave a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Thursday to announce that his daughter Shouko (22) recently married and is to have a baby next spring. The former singer and her new husband, a 25-year old chef at a Tokyo restaurant, registered their marriage on October 5. Takeshi gave a typically comical performance, questioning whether he really should have over the family fortune to “some cook.” But he also indulged in the sentmental, saying he hoped his grandchild would say “my grandpa was amazing in so many ways.” Shouko made her debut as an actress in her father’s film “Hanabi” in 1997 under the name Matsuda Shouko. The next year, she reached No.10 in the charts with a single produced by X Japan’s Yoshiki. Another single followed, but in 1999 she went to the U.S. to study and her career was put on hold.