Yukie Nakama

Yukie Nakama (born October 30, 1979) is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, in a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings. At the start of her career she was a gravure idol and singer (her debut single "Moonlight to Daybreak" was released in 1996), and appeared in bit roles until her career breakthrough playing Sadako in "Ring 0: Birthday (2000)." In 2000, Nakama demonstrated her talent for comedy with her lead role in the Japanese television drama Trick which proved so popular that it had two more seasons and three film versions, but it was the top-rating TV series Gokusen (2002), a live-action version of the popular manga, that established her as one of Japan's most popular and bankable actresses. Nakama has featured in commercials for companies such as Nissin, Glico, Lotte, Asahi, Shiseido, au by KDDI, and has even served as a spokesperson for Japan Railways and the Japanese Tax Agency. She is managed by Production Ogi.

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Love & Pop (1998)

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideaki Anno
CAST:  Tadanobu Asano  •  Kirari  •  Hirono Kudo  •  Asumi Miwa

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideaki Anno
CAST:  Tadanobu Asano  •  Kirari  •  Hirono Kudo  •  Asumi Miwa

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ten Shimoyama
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Erika Sawajiri  •  Tomoka Kurotani  •  Joe Odagiri

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ten Shimoyama
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Erika Sawajiri  •  Tomoka Kurotani  •  Joe Odagiri

Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness (1998)

Two years have passed since the Great War. Akito and Yurika have vanished. The Jovians and the Earthlings have joined forces and Ruri is now captain of Nadesico B. As the popularity of Boson Jumping grows, a vast transportation network has been developed. Dubbed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tatsuo Sato
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Omi Minami  •  Chisa Yokoyama  •  Yuji Ueda

Two years have passed since the Great War. Akito and Yurika have vanished. The Jovians and the Earthlings have joined forces and Ruri is now captain of Nadesico B. As the popularity of Boson Jumping grows, a vast transportation network has been developed. Dubbed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tatsuo Sato
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Omi Minami  •  Chisa Yokoyama  •  Yuji Ueda

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shusuke Kaneko
CAST:  Shinobu Nakayama  •  Ai Maeda  •  Yukijiro Hotaru  •  Ayako Fujitani

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shusuke Kaneko
CAST:  Shinobu Nakayama  •  Ai Maeda  •  Yukijiro Hotaru  •  Ayako Fujitani

Gokusen: The Movie (2009)

A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tōya Satō
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Kenji Anan  •  Namase Katsuhisa  •  Riki Takeuchi

A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tōya Satō
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Kenji Anan  •  Namase Katsuhisa  •  Riki Takeuchi

Trick the Movie: Last Stage (2014)

Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Noriyuki Higashiyama  •  Namase Katsuhisa

Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Noriyuki Higashiyama  •  Namase Katsuhisa

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DIRECTION:  Tomoki Sano
CAST:  Shintarō Yamada  •  Issa  •  Sachiko Fukumoto  •  Hiroki Kawata

Flowers (2010)

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norihiro Koizumi
CAST:  Yu Aoi  •  Yûko Takeuchi  •  Rena Tanaka  •  Yukie Nakama

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norihiro Koizumi
CAST:  Yu Aoi  •  Yûko Takeuchi  •  Rena Tanaka  •  Yukie Nakama

Trick: The Movie 2 (2006)

Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Yuta Hiraoka  •  Maki Horikita

Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Yuta Hiraoka  •  Maki Horikita

Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale (2010)

Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Namase Katsuhisa  •  Takeru Satoh

Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Namase Katsuhisa  •  Takeru Satoh

Abacus and Sword (2010)

Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshimitsu Morita
CAST:  Masato Sakai  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Masatoshi Nakamura  •  Keiko Matsuzaka

Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshimitsu Morita
CAST:  Masato Sakai  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Masatoshi Nakamura  •  Keiko Matsuzaka

I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)

1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuo Fukuzawa
CAST:  Masahiro Nakai  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Yuki Shibamoto  •  Masahiko Nishimura

1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuo Fukuzawa
CAST:  Masahiro Nakai  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Yuki Shibamoto  •  Masahiko Nishimura

Ring 0 (2000)

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norio Tsuruta
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Seiichi Tanabe  •  Kumiko Aso  •  Yoshiko Tanaka

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norio Tsuruta
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Seiichi Tanabe  •  Kumiko Aso  •  Yoshiko Tanaka

g@me. (2003)

A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Satoshi Isaka
CAST:  Naohito Fujiki  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Ryudo Uzaki  •  Ryo Ishibashi

A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Satoshi Isaka
CAST:  Naohito Fujiki  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Ryudo Uzaki  •  Ryo Ishibashi

Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace (2006)

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toru Hayashi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hidetoshi Nishijima  •  Haruka Igawa  •  Mitsuhiro Oikawa

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toru Hayashi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Hidetoshi Nishijima  •  Haruka Igawa  •  Mitsuhiro Oikawa

Giovanni's Island (2014)

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mizuho Nishikubo
CAST:  Polina Ilyushenko  •  Hiroshi Inuzuka  •  Kaoru Yachigusa  •  Saburo Kitajima

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mizuho Nishikubo
CAST:  Polina Ilyushenko  •  Hiroshi Inuzuka  •  Kaoru Yachigusa  •  Saburo Kitajima

The Big Bee (2015)

Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yosuke Eguchi  •  Masahiro Motoki  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Ken Mitsuishi

Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Yosuke Eguchi  •  Masahiro Motoki  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Ken Mitsuishi

Sleeping Forest (2014)

A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiro Doi
CAST:  Hiroshi Abe  •  Satomi Ishihara  •  Haruka Kinami  •  Terunosuke Takezai

A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiro Doi
CAST:  Hiroshi Abe  •  Satomi Ishihara  •  Haruka Kinami  •  Terunosuke Takezai

Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion (2013)

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Meiji Fujita
CAST:  Masakazu Tamura  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Meiko Kaji  •  Naoto Ogata

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Meiji Fujita
CAST:  Masakazu Tamura  •  Yukie Nakama  •  Meiko Kaji  •  Naoto Ogata

Mesen (2010)

Akari Dojima (Yukie Nakama), an illustrator, is the third daughter of Chairman Dojima, the head of a construction company. During her childhood, she had an accident which left her crippled and forced her to spend her life in a motorized wheelchair. The sudden ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toru Hayashi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Koji Yamamoto  •  Fumiyo Kohinata  •  Kaoru Okunuki

Akari Dojima (Yukie Nakama), an illustrator, is the third daughter of Chairman Dojima, the head of a construction company. During her childhood, she had an accident which left her crippled and forced her to spend her life in a motorized wheelchair. The sudden ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toru Hayashi
CAST:  Yukie Nakama  •  Koji Yamamoto  •  Fumiyo Kohinata  •  Kaoru Okunuki
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