Yuko Nakamura

Yuko Nakamura

Birthday: 1975-01-07

Place of Birth: Fukui, Japan

Biography: Yūko Nakamura is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2001 for the film Firefly and the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for Strawberry Shortcakes.

Movies

5 Centimeters per Second
5 Centimeters per Second

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friends...

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Truths: A Stream
Truths: A Stream

After four years, Kyoko receives a surprise visit from her ex-boyfriend Shunichi, who asks her to di...

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Small, Slow But Steady
Small, Slow But Steady

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threate...

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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo....

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Strawberry Shortcakes
Strawberry Shortcakes

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with t...

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9
9

Film by Nobuaki Kubo...

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Women on the Edge
Women on the Edge

Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous r...

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The Suicide Manual
The Suicide Manual

After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by ...

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Following the Sound
Following the Sound

Haru, a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep so...

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Firefly
Firefly

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother's suicide when she...

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Tomato No Shizuku
Tomato No Shizuku

With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sa...

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Like a Desperado Under the Eaves
Like a Desperado Under the Eaves

The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces o...

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Strangers
Strangers

A couple who have lived under the same roof for years without speaking a word, as if practicing a si...

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Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project

Akihiro, who lives in an old apartment building in Tokyo, makes songs and sings on the streets; Fei,...

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Jubaku: Spellbound
Jubaku: Spellbound

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to ...

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Colors
Colors

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Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart

Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her siblin...

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The Box Man
The Box Man

A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the ...

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Strangers When We Meet
Strangers When We Meet

The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The Rebirt...

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Box: The Hakamada Case
Box: The Hakamada Case

Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incar...

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Fires on the Plain
Fires on the Plain

In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from...

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Kotoko
Kotoko

Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifyi...

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Tada's Do-It-All House
Tada's Do-It-All House

In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, ...

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The Samurai I Loved
The Samurai I Loved

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweet...

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Awakening
Awakening

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriag...

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In the Pool
In the Pool

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neur...

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Welcome to the Quiet Room
Welcome to the Quiet Room

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protect...

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Torso
Torso

Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her siste...

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Love and Treachery
Love and Treachery

Kyosuke, an editor at a publishing company, keeps his concerns about his stagnant relationship with ...

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The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio

Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as C...

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Egoist
Egoist

A lonely magazine editor finds romance with his personal trainer until a confession changes everythi...

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A Farewell to Jinu
A Farewell to Jinu

Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not ...

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The Sun
The Sun

The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of...

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Double Suicide Elegy
Double Suicide Elegy

Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works...

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Rodeo Drive -ロデオドライブ-
Rodeo Drive -ロデオドライブ-

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Our Little Sister
Our Little Sister

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live...

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The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage

There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the ...

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LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!
LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!

Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that ...

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Amy Said
Amy Said

Twenty years have passed since the sudden disappearance of Amy, who was the femme fatale in her film...

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Moonlit Winter
Moonlit Winter

The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small J...

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Until I Meet September's Love
Until I Meet September's Love

Shiori has just moved to a new apartment. One evening, she hears a mysterious voice that claims to b...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Yuriko (Yuki Shibamoto) is tired of her relationship with a married man. She leaves Tokyo and goes b...

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Ace Attorney
Ace Attorney

Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on r...

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Koma
Koma

Kawase explores the fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship...

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Akiba
Akiba

A Japanese film about a bunch of otaku (or the cool cinema versions) in Akihabara who form a company...

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Goldfish Princess
Goldfish Princess

One day, Ezawa Jun, who has trouble with work and in love, gets a ryukin from a goldfish scooping ga...

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Good Stripes
Good Stripes

Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28-years-old. They have dated for 4 years, but their re...

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ENCLOSURE
ENCLOSURE

Japanese mystery film made in 2003....

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Slow Train
Slow Train

Set in Kamakura and Busan. The Shibuyas who live in Kamakura lost their grandmother and parents in a...

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