[3][4] Matsumoto ended her modeling career in 1967 and married Henry Berghauer, a manager at groupe Pierre Cardin.

[5][6] In 1970, Matsumoto played the prominent part of Kyoko, the Japanese lover, in French director François Truffaut's movie Bed and Board.

[7] A few years later, Hiroko Matsumoto married Jean-Claude Cathalan, who, at the time, was a manager at Roussel Uclaf.

[8][11] Their daughter, Maxime Cathalan, was kidnapped in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 20 months in front of her nurse.

[12] In 2003, Hiroko Cathalan died in Paris at the age of 67 after a long period in the hospital.