TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 29: Director Jean-Jacques Annaud (R) and Tomoko Matsushima (L) hold a baby tiger at the Japan Premiere for "Two Brothers"
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Tomoko Matsushima was bitten on the head by a lion during promotion photo session in the 1970s and has been a not-all-there space cadet ever since. Just look at her face and imagine that she once had a lion's canines locked on both sides of her temples! She has been singing clearly demented Mugi-cha ad on TV and radio for 20-30 years.
In 1986 she was doing a TV documentary program with the wild animal expert, George Adamson in a remote Kenyan region. In the camp during filming, a "tame" lion grabbed her head cracking it, smashing her 4th cervical vertebra and raked her back leaving her deeply scared. She recovered but is not "right." Bless her, she now does charity work for the handicapped and gets a lot of dubbing/ voice talent work using the eerie voice they she has.