Yukie Nakama
Acting
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.
Born: October 30, 1979
Place of Birth: Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan
Known For
AIBOU: The Movie IV
A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese government for the release of hostages. The group then targets a victory parade of a world sports game to commit indiscriminate terror.
I Want to Be a Shellfish
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 officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
Musashi
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at Ganryujima.
Antarctica
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.
Saki
From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to the flame... but where is the line drawn between the saint and the devil?
Chimudondon
Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. She aims to become a chef drawing inspiration from Okinawan cuisine. The four siblings follow very different paths, but the memories of their hometown connect their hearts and they're able to overcome their hardships as a family.
Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta!
Makimura Kimiko, freelance journalist and city-girl extraordinaire, marries into a traditional Japanese family. Most overbearing of the Yamamoto Family members is Isojiro's mother, Shimako, who seems to think Kimiko is the perfect wife whose knowledge of the traditional Japanese arts knows no bounds. Kimiko on the other hand is sloppy, a bad cook unless it happens to be microwavable, and couldn't tell a shamisen from a bagpipe if her life depended on it. Bombarded by customs, Kimiko's only desire is to never step foot in the Main House again. But with the interference of her husband, Isojiro, who can't seem to say no to his mother, Kimiko finds herself back in a place she calls Hell and smack in the midst of some crazy tradition her in-laws want her to participate in.
The Laughing Salesman
Gokusen
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.
Precious Time
Masaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her body. She end up meeting him after the concert and fall in love with him, and he is interested in her. How ever Masaki has gotten HIV during the time she sold her body... How will this affect her relationship with Keigo?
Filmography
as 川端 由希子
as Ogura An
as Iine Hoshiyo
as Trisha Elric
as Yuko Higa
as Urara Asakura
as Yoshizawa Yoko
as Makiko Yoshioka
as Ryo Shiramine
as Miyako Yashiro
as Maehata Shigeko
as Akamine
as Sawatari Ichiko
as Sakura Mizusawa (DJ Kokoro)
as Mitsuko Mori
as Hayama Renko
as Sawako (voice)
as Naoko Yamada
as special appearance
as Natsumi Endo
as Makiko Norita
as Chihiro Natsumura
as Ichi Sasahara
as Saki Amihama
as Choko Uehara
as Rin Kinoshita
as Kinmamunsama
as Katakura Tomoe
as Yukari Kuramochi
as Fuyumi
as Manazuru / Neon Son
as Meyer Saki
as Koma Inoshiyama
as Shinobu Hiramatsu (Matsusawa)
as Sato
as Naoko Yamada
as Naoko Yamada
as Ryoko Narumi
as Kumiko Yamaguchi
as Kana Nakajo
as Fusae Shimizu
as Kurumi Hatakeyama
as Mizuho Yamazaki
as Kimiko Yamamoto
as Naoko Yamada
as Chiyo
as Fusehime
as Natsu Takakura
as Oboro
as Mika Kimoto / Yuri Kim
as Katsuragi Chiharu
as Mizuho Hirano（平野 瑞穂）
as Yae / Koto
as Naoko Yamada
as Receptionist
as Miyako Yashiro
as Kumiko Yamaguchi
as Special Appearance
as Akiko
as Receptionist
as Maki Aikawa
as 相沢早紀
as Naoko Yamada
as Sadako Yamamura
as Mashiro Maria
as Female Camper
as Lapis Lazuli (voice)
as Kaoru
as Chieko Takamori
as Mayu Kitami
as Chieko Nakamori
as Asahina Mutsuki (voice)
as 矢田园子