Yukie Nakama
Birthday: 1979-10-30
Place of Birth: Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Biography: 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.
Movies
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
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Ring 0
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story...
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The Lawyer of Shimane
The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan....
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g@me.
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billio...
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Flowers
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way t...
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Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are...
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Love & Pop
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated da...
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Trick: The Movie
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko...
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Gokusen: The Movie
A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class ...
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Abacus and Sword
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of t...
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Trick: The Movie 2
Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that di...
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Trick the Movie: Last Stage
Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. Ther...
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broke...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote ...
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Giovanni's Island
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of S...
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Drowning Fish
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shin...
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home...
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is on...
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Mesen
Akari Dojima (Yukie Nakama), an illustrator, is the third daughter of Chairman Dojima, the head of a...
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The Big Bee
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The...
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
The Elric brothers’ long and winding journey comes to a close in this epic finale, where they must f...
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Sleeping Forest
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ...
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Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness
Two years have passed since the Great War. Akito and Yurika have vanished. The Jovians and the Earth...
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Dragon King: The Beasts' Code
In that city, Wang, the boss of the Beijing mafia, was at the center of everything. Anyone who defie...
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Mokuyou no Kaidan'97: Akuryou Gakuen
Haruka Renkoji is a bright and innocent high school girl. However, she is actually the descendant of...
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AIBOU: The Movie IV
A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese go...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes b...
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There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream....
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Trick Shinsaku Special
Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spirtualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when pe...
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Trick Shinsaku Special 2
Ueda, Naoko, Yabe Kenzo and his partner Akiba are back in a new Trick special. Ueda Jiro is summoned...
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Woman Lived Mori Mitsuko
Drama special "Mori Mitsuko wo Ikita Onna" follows the life of actress Mitsuko Mori and, in particul...
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Hanayome
Chiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her home ...
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Trick Shinsaku Special 3
Within a mountain village, the Suijin family has controlled the village for a long time. The three ...
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Song of the Canefields
Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with the...
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Document Love & Pop
Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumb...
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Love Song
In 1985 Hokkaido, Akiko gets close to a record store clerk after he lends her his copy of a Yutaka O...
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Joou no Houigaku ~Shikatsushi~
A genius forensic scientist pushes around one of her students while investigating a case....
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Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido
"Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido" was used as the theme song for Hideaki Anno's 1998 live-action deb...
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STEP OUT
Set in the sun-drenched landscapes of Okinawa, this heartfelt coming-of-age story follows Teruya Yō,...
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