Yukie Nakama

Yukie Nakama

Born: October 30, 1979
in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
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 for Yukie Nakama...

テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜
Title: テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜
Released: March 5, 2024
Type: Movie
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
Title: Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
Character: Trisha Elric
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: Movie
The Elric brothers’ long and winding journey comes to a close in this epic finale, where they must face off against an unworldly, nationwide threat.
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Title: Chimudondon
Character: Yuko Higa
Released: April 11, 2022
Type: TV
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.
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Joou no Houigaku ~Shikatsushi~
Title: Joou no Houigaku ~Shikatsushi~
Released: May 31, 2021
Type: Movie
A genius forensic scientist pushes around one of her students while investigating a case.
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Title: 24 JAPAN
Character: Urara Asakura
Released: October 9, 2020
Type: TV
Japanese adaptation of the American TV Series "24". Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job and a reasonable person, but he often has to make drastic decisions to save lives.
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Title: Secret of 10
Released: January 14, 2020
Type: TV
Shirakawa Keita works as a building inspector. He is a single father, who has raised his 14 year-old-daughter Hitomi alone since his divorce with ex-wife Sendai Yukiko. Yukiko works as a corporate lawyer for a large construction company. After his ex-wife left, Keita placed his daughter as a priority, making him the ideal father. One day, Keita receives a phone call. The caller informs him that "I have your daughter. If you want to save her life, go to your ex-wife." While looking for his daughter, Keita uncovers secrets about his daughter and ex-wife.
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Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
Title: Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Fake Affair
Character: Yoshizawa Yoko
Released: July 10, 2019
Type: TV
Hama Shoko is a 32-year-old single woman and a contract worker. She is not good at romance and does not have a boyfriend, but she wants to get married. For the past 2 years, she has been looking for a man to marry. Still unable to find the right guy, Shoko decides to take a solo trip. While on the airplane, she meets a handsome younger man. During her trip, she happens to meet the younger man again. Shoko lies to him and tells him that she is a married woman. The man tells her "let's have an affair during this trip."
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Title: Fake Affair
Released: July 10, 2019
Type: TV
Hama Shoko is a 32-year-old single woman and a contract worker. She is not good at romance and does not have a boyfriend, but she wants to get married. For the past 2 years, she has been looking for a man to marry. Still unable to find the right guy, Shoko decides to take a solo trip. While on the airplane, she meets a handsome younger man. During her trip, she happens to meet the younger man again. Shoko lies to him and tells him that she is a married woman. The man tells her "let's have an affair during this trip."
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Title: School Counselor
Character: Makiko Yoshioka
Released: October 17, 2017
Type: TV
Aizawa Hinata is a high school counselor who provides support to students with school and family problems. This is motivated by the warped relationship she had with her over-controlling mother which she could not discuss with anyone. One day, a male student who has not been attending school confesses that he likes her. However, he dies mysteriously the next day. Hinata takes action to determine the cause of his death and learns that the boy suffered insidious bullying at school and excessive meddling by his mother. He had a record of delinquency and kept rough company. Hinata is hounded by his mother who believes that she is responsible for her son's suicide, and is driven to the verge of breaking down.
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Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Ryo Shiramine
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.
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AIBOU: The Movie IV
Title: AIBOU: The Movie IV
Character: Miyako Yashiro
Released: February 11, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Heaven
Character: Maehata Shigeko
Released: January 8, 2017
Type: TV
An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hagitani visits Shigeko Maehata who works for a small editing company. Toshiko tells Shigeko that her 12-year-old son Hitoshi might have a special ability to see other people's memories. She pulls out a picture drawn by Hitoshi. The picture has a girl with a grey colored face lying in a house that has a bat shaped weather vane on its roof. The picture seems to depict the incident involving the Doizaki couple. Shigeko decides to do some research, but Hitoshi dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the attorney for the Doizaki couple tells their second daughter Seiko that the couple has cut off all ties with her. Around that time, a female high student is confined.
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The Big Bee
Title: The Big Bee
Character: Akamine
Released: September 12, 2015
Type: Movie
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 will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
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Title: Beauty and the Fellow
Character: Sawatari Ichiko
Released: April 14, 2015
Type: TV
A capable but unpopular showbiz manager, Kazuko, struggles to groom a younger, new male actor, Ryo, whom she had scouted, into a star. An unmotivated Ryo slowly becomes conscious of the pleasures of acting. Bonds of camaraderie grow, and before long, love gradually blossoms between them.
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Title: The Good Listener
Character: Sakura Mizusawa (DJ Kokoro)
Released: October 20, 2014
Type: TV
Undercover cop Sakura Mizusawa assumes many faces as she teams up with a hot-blooded detective, Masato Takeuchi, to form a crime-solving tag team with an ear for the truth. With an uncanny ability to connect all the disparate voices she hears undercover, Sakura goes in complete pursuit of criminals, giving her undivided attention to incidents that could happen to anyone and alleviating the suffering of the weak and disadvantaged.
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Woman Lived Mori Mitsuko
Title: Woman Lived Mori Mitsuko
Character: Mitsuko Mori
Released: May 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Drama special "Mori Mitsuko wo Ikita Onna" follows the life of actress Mitsuko Mori and, in particular, when she 26 to 42 years old. Mitsuko Mori went through struggles to find happiness as a woman and an actress.
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Title: Hanako & Anne
Released: March 31, 2014
Type: TV
A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian school in Tokyo. She found her passion in English and step by step made her dream come true.
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Giovanni's Island
Title: Giovanni's Island
Character: Sawako (voice)
Released: February 22, 2014
Type: Movie
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 timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.
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Trick Shinsaku Special 3
Title: Trick Shinsaku Special 3
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Within a mountain village, the Suijin family has controlled the village for a long time. The three sisters from the Sujin family begin to quarrel over the family inheritance. There, consecutive murders then take place in the village. The murders can only by explained by paranormal phenomenon. Naoko (Yukie Nakama) and Jiro (Hiroshi Abe) attempt to uncover the truth.
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Trick the Movie: Last Stage
Title: Trick the Movie: Last Stage
Character: Naoko Yamada
Released: January 11, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Sleeping Forest
Title: Sleeping Forest
Character: special appearance
Released: January 2, 2014
Type: Movie
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 director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?
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トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版
Title: トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Honey Trap
Character: Natsumi Endo
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: TV
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Title: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Character: Makiko Norita
Released: September 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic arrangement skills, arrangement instructor Makiko Norita makes people happy. Based on the book "Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Maho" by Marie Kondo (published December 27, 2010 by Sunmark Publishing,Inc.). Marie Kondo is a cleaning consultant and developed popular "KonMari Method" for organizing and storing household items.
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Title: The Island Teacher
Character: Chihiro Natsumura
Released: May 25, 2013
Type: TV
Students who have previous troubles in the city's schools are sent to a small school on an island. Warm-hearted people on this remote island change them and they can grow. Chihiro Natsumura, who is a teacher on the remote island, struggles to solve the problems her students have.
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
Title: Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
Character: Ichi Sasahara
Released: February 9, 2013
Type: Movie
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 choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.
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Title: Saki
Character: Saki Amihama
Released: January 8, 2013
Type: TV
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?
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Title: Ghost Mama Investigation
Character: Choko Uehara
Released: July 7, 2012
Type: TV
Frst grade elementary school student Tonbo (Yuma Kimino) is the type that's easily scared. One day, when he wears his dead mother's glasses, the ghost of his deceased mother Choko Uehara (Yukie Nakama) appears in front of him. His mother died three months ago. Choko Uehara worked as a police officer. Now, other ghosts come to Choko Uehara. Even after her death she likes to meddle in other people's affairs. Choko Uehara now solves cases with her son Tonba as her partner. Choko also watches her son grow up until the real farewell day comes ...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Spring Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Spring Special
Released: April 21, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Renai Neet: Wasureta Koi no Hajimekata
Character: Rin Kinoshita
Released: January 20, 2012
Type: TV
Renai Neet: Wasureta Koi no Hajimekata is a Japanese television drama series.
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Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie: Nanatsu no Mabui
Title: Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie: Nanatsu no Mabui
Character: Kinmamunsama
Released: January 7, 2012
Type: Movie
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Hanayome
Title: Hanayome
Character: Katakura Tomoe
Released: January 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Chiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her home so she is offered by her eldest son, Ryoichi to live with him and his family. But her children are disappointed to hear that Chiyo has decided to become a live-in housekeeper. Then her eldest daughter Setsuko announced that Chiyo has had an offer of marriage. It is from the widower Kurosaki who had been a friend to Chiyo's deceased husband. Kurosaki runs a small company and has no children but has enough life savings. However, second daughter Tomoe, and youngest child, Yoko, are opposed to it. The siblings begin to argue. Meanwhile, Kurosaki tells his sister Namiko that he has decided to remarry. She is furious because he refuses to tell her anything about Chiyo. Thus, she takes it upon herself to find out about Chiyo and soon has a confrontation with her. Around that time, Kurosaki’s company is about to go bankrupt...
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Title: Antarctica
Character: Yukari Kuramochi
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Akujotachi no Mesu
Character: Fuyumi
Released: September 12, 2011
Type: TV
Hiyama Fuyumi (Nakama Yukie) is considered to be Japan's best brain surgeon, but her links to a series of past murders has made her nearly unemployable. Still, the Director of the university hospital she once trained at wants her to come back and perform an important surgery on an ailing soccer player. But the hospital holds some dark secrets in its past; ones that may come forth and bring more deaths around Fuyumi...
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Title: The Tempest
Character: Manazuru / Neon Son
Released: July 17, 2011
Type: TV
Set in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the guise of a Eunuch to pass a government examination. She eventually becomes a government official still in the disguise of a man.
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Title: The Beautiful Neighbor
Character: Meyer Saki
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: TV
A sudden encounter between a gracefully attractive but mysterious woman, Saki, and an ordinary housewife, Eriko, who has a happy family, causes Eriko's serene daily life to fall apart. Eriko's husband, Shinji becomes the target of Saki's advances and finds himself caught between her and his wife.
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Mesen
Title: Mesen
Character: 堂島あかり
Released: December 17, 2010
Type: Movie
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 suicide of Akari's father sets off a chain of events. Members of Dojima family and their servants are killed one after another and an investigation begins. After that, the body of their driver (Kitaro), who had hung himself, is found in the garage...
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Abacus and Sword
Title: Abacus and Sword
Character: Koma Inoshiyama
Released: December 4, 2010
Type: Movie
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 the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
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Title: Japanese Americans
Character: Shinobu Hiramatsu (Matsusawa)
Released: November 3, 2010
Type: TV
99 Years of Love 〜Japanese Americans〜 is a Japanese, 5-episode miniseries produced by TBS for its 60th anniversary, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Yukie Nakama, and sponsored by Toyota and Panasonic. It tells the story of a family of Japanese immigrants who moved to America 99 years ago. When the Second World War breaks out, the family encounters racism and segregation. The two daughters, who were sent back to Japan, experience the suffering from the Japanese side of the war.
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Flowers
Title: Flowers
Character: Sato
Released: June 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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Trick Shinsaku Special 2
Title: Trick Shinsaku Special 2
Character: Naoko Yamada
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Ueda, Naoko, Yabe Kenzo and his partner Akiba are back in a new Trick special. Ueda Jiro is summoned to investigate serial killings that are likely to happen again during a festival to take place in a small village in Okayama. The victims are persons who took an oath under a local tradition but were dumped by their partners afterwards. The festival is marked by the return to the village of a strange woman by the name of Higashizaki Ayano, who had left 20 years ago after the death of her husband and son. The Saionji family, which is the most influential in the city, dislikes the fact
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Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale
Title: Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale
Character: Naoko Yamada
Released: May 8, 2010
Type: Movie
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. Naoko attempts to gain big money by participating in the battle royale, while Jiro is invited to the village to stop this custom. Naoko and Ueda then challenges this amazing trick ..
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Title: Untouchable
Character: Ryoko Narumi
Released: October 16, 2009
Type: TV
When reporter Narumi Ryoko loses her job at a first-rate publisher and ends up at a trashy tabloid called "Shukan Untouchable." She now chases celebrity scandals and sensational stories, but she hasn't lost her sense of duty or her persistence. While investigating her stories, she tends to notice details that imply some hidden truth beneath the surface, leading her to probe deeper into dangerous secrets. --Tokyograph
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Gokusen: The Movie
Title: Gokusen: The Movie
Character: Kumiko Yamaguchi
Released: July 11, 2009
Type: Movie
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 Japanese TV series.
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Title: MR.BRAIN
Released: May 23, 2009
Type: TV
Ryusuke Tsukumo is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique perspective and psychology, Tsukumo tackles the nation's most baffling crimes and scandals, going head-to-head with the most brilliant and twisted criminal minds. But his eccentricities and poor social timing can also aggravate people and circumstances, further complicating matters.
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Title: Ordinary Miracles
Character: Kana Nakajo
Released: January 8, 2009
Type: TV
One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train. Nakashiro Kana and Tasaki Shota both happen to be on the same platform, and sensing what is about to happen, they quickly pull him back to safety. There's a reason why Kana and Shota realized Makoto's intentions, they both have the kind of emotional scars that can't be put into words. Even after so much pain, through a series of e-mails, they've become attracted to one another and slowly learn to open up their hearts once again.
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Title: I Want to Be a Shellfish
Character: Fusae Shimizu
Released: September 22, 2008
Type: Movie
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...
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Title: Joshideka
Character: Kurumi Hatakeyama
Released: October 18, 2007
Type: TV
A sharpshooting rookie and a veteran with a brilliant track record are paired to solve a number of different cases. The two incompatible women clash about everything, and we see them developing a friendship, hating one another, working as team, laughing and crying as they follow the trail of clues set by a serial killer.
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The Lawyer of Shimane
Title: The Lawyer of Shimane
Character: Mizuho Yamazaki
Released: July 14, 2007
Type: Movie
The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and righteous Yamazaki Mizuho, who travels around by bicycle to help her clients.
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Title: Elite Yankee Saburo
Released: April 13, 2007
Type: TV
Based on the comedy manga by Abe Shuji, "Elite Yankee Saburo" tells the story of Ookochi Saburo (Ishiguro Hideo), a plain and shy boy entering high school. Unfortunately for him, his two older brothers had built a reputation as legendary troublemakers at that school. When Saburo arrives, he is immediately misunderstood and treated as an "elite yankee."
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Title: Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta!
Character: Yamamoto Kimiko
Released: January 11, 2007
Type: TV
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.
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
Title: Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
Character: Ejima
Released: December 23, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Trick: The Movie 2
Title: Trick: The Movie 2
Character: Naoko Yamada
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Love and Glory
Character: Chiyo
Released: January 8, 2006
Type: TV
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.
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Title: Satomi Hakkenden
Character: Fusehime
Released: January 2, 2006
Type: TV
"Satomi Hakkenden" tells the tale of eight samurai brothers and their adventures, with themes of loyalty and family honor, as well as Confucianism, bushido and Buddhist philosophy. "Satomi Hakkenden" is based off a 19th century 106 volume epic novel written by Kyokutei Bakin. The novel was written over a period of 30 years. Kyokutei Bakin had gone blind before finishing the tale, consequently, dictating the final portions to his daughter-in-law Michi.
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Trick Shinsaku Special
Title: Trick Shinsaku Special
Released: November 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spirtualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when people will die. The professors die one by one. Introduction of Yabe's Otaku assistant, Akiba.
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Title: Haru and Natsu
Character: Natsu Takakura
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: TV
As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all contact, each must make her own way in an unforgiving world. Hardships abound in the struggle to survive in war-torn Japan and in the face of anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil, financial ruin, familial pressure, abandonment and lost love. However they also experience the precious joy of survival and success. Now, after 70 years, Haru comes back to Japan to find her estranged sister.
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Title: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Character: Oboro
Released: September 17, 2005
Type: Movie
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 Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
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Title: Destiny of Love
Character: Mika Kimoto / Yuri Kim
Released: July 5, 2004
Type: TV
A Japanese drama involves romance and a phone-dating service.
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g@me.
Title: g@me.
Character: Katsuragi Chiharu
Released: November 8, 2003
Type: Movie
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 bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
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Song of the Canefields
Title: Song of the Canefields
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier.
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Title: Kao
Character: Mizuho Hirano(平野 瑞穂)
Released: April 8, 2003
Type: TV
A drama set in a police department depicts how a woman grows and matures as a human being as she suffers from the gap between reality and ideals in an environment where women are looked down upon. Mizuho Hirano, a woman police officer whose work consists of drawing composite sketches of criminal suspects, has the unique ability to look deep into people's hearts.
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Title: Musashi
Character: Yae / Koto
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: TV
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.
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Trick: The Movie
Title: Trick: The Movie
Character: Naoko Yamada
Released: November 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?
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There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Title: There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Character: Receptionist
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream.
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Title: ナイト ホスピタル
Character: Morisawa Maki
Released: October 14, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Night Hospital
Released: October 14, 2002
Type: TV
The setting for this human drama is a unique hospital where the doors only open at night to treat outpatients. At these late hours the staff is faced with all sorts of ailments from all sorts of patients... The new face on the staff, Maki was trained as a pathologist but finds herself assigned to the hospital as a clinical physician. Although she's full of medical knowledge, her lack of any real experience (and her queasiness at giving shots!) keep her at arm's length from the rest of the staff. The passionate and optimistic Maki is particularly detested by Keiko, the practical and results-oriented clinical physician. Nevertheless, Maki is determined to help her patients. Armed with her knowledge and vitality she strives to get to the bottom of the various illnesses she is faced with. As Maki grows not just as a doctor but as a human being, the rest of the staff is touched by her courage. Join the staff of Night Hospital as they rediscover "life".. --YTV Japan
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Character: Miyako Yashiro
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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Title: Gokusen
Character: Kumiko Yamaguchi
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Love From a Lie
Released: July 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Love Song
Title: Love Song
Character: Akiko
Released: April 28, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1985 Hokkaido, Akiko gets close to a record store clerk after he lends her his copy of a Yutaka Ozaki album.
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Title: There's Always Tomorrow, We Have Tomorrow
Character: Receptionist
Released: April 21, 2001
Type: TV
Ashita Ga Arusa is a Japanese television drama series first aired on NTV in 2001.
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Drowning Fish
Title: Drowning Fish
Character: Maki Aikawa
Released: February 3, 2001
Type: Movie
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Oboreru Sakana". The "big guns" are a misfit duo of ethically questionable characters who must infiltrate a gay nightclub and "fit in" while they search for clues. What ensues is both hilarious and action-packed. Oboreru Sakana is a rather ambitious and often hilarious contemporary crime thriller. Its narrative swings from the grisly to the humorous and pulls in as many pop culture elements as it can manage.
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Title: Trick
Character: Naoko Yamada
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: TV
Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...
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Ring 0
Title: Ring 0
Character: Sadako Yamamura
Released: January 22, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Love 2000
Character: Mashiro Maria
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: TV
Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.
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Title: P.S. I'm Fine, Shunpei
Released: June 24, 1999
Type: TV
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Character: Female Camper
Released: March 6, 1999
Type: Movie
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 her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
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Title: Kimi to Ita Mirai no Tame ni ~ I'll be back
Released: January 16, 1999
Type: TV
A college senior who suddenly dies returns to life four years earlier, and, with full memory of his future, attempts to correct past mistakes and realize that previously unaccomplished goals, only to die and be reborn again and again. Though the circumstances are different each time, he encounters people who form a common connecting thread.
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Document Love & Pop
Title: Document Love & Pop
Released: November 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumbling assistant, and one from the perspective of a AV director filming a documentary about Anno but narrated by a worker from a bread factory
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Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness
Title: Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness
Character: Lapis Lazuli
Released: August 8, 1998
Type: Movie
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 the Hisago Plan, this network of Chulip portals holds the answers to the mysteries behind Bose particles and their power. If those secrets should fall into the wrong hands, it could mean big trouble. And big trouble there is. A Martian splinter group has launched an offensive, leaving the United Forces befuddled and desperate. So much so, in fact, that the former crew of the Nadesico is called back to active duty for a special unsanctioned mission-to save us all. Does this menagerie of misfits have what it takes? Who will win the race for the Boson technology? And what the heck happened to Akito and Yurika?
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Title: God, Please Give Me More Time
Character: Kaoru
Released: July 7, 1998
Type: TV
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?
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Title: Invisible Girl Air
Character: Kyoko
Released: February 21, 1998
Type: TV
Ryota a medical college student, meets a girl, Air, who has an invisible body. She has lost her memory and is being chased by a mysterious organization. Ryota decides to protect Air from the hands of the organization.
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Love & Pop
Title: Love & Pop
Character: Chieko Takamori
Released: January 10, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Bayside Shakedown: Year-End Special Alert
Title: Bayside Shakedown: Year-End Special Alert
Character: Mayu Kitami
Released: December 30, 1997
Type: Movie
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Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido
Title: Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: Movie
"Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido" was used as the theme song for Hideaki Anno's 1998 live-action debut film "Love & Pop". The version in the film was performed by its lead actress Asumi Miwa. Anno traveled far away from the hectic Tokyo metropolis with his cast to shoot almost idol-like sunny beach footage for the music video and film advertisements.
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Title: Shiawaseiro Shashinkan
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: TV
No overview available.
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Title: D×D
Released: July 5, 1997
Type: TV
Two young men have a special ability: they can sense ghost spirits. With this special ability they try to solve mysteries / crimes.
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Title: Haunted Junction
Character: Asahina Mutsuki (voice)
Released: April 2, 1997
Type: TV
Meet Haruto Hojo, an ordinary high school student with an unusual problem. He's got ghosts and spirits running amuck at school! Appointed President of the Saints Club, Haruto, Mutsuki, and Kazuo are charged with the task of investigating strange phenomena on campus and improve the quality of life for the school spirits that roam the halls. But how can three students handle the likes of Hanako, the sultry bathroom spirit, a Kosak-dancing skeleton, a fish monster living in the school's pool, Red Mantle, Nino-kun, and the rest of the Saito school spirits?
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Title: Itazura na Kiss
Character: Yada Sonoko
Released: October 14, 1996
Type: TV
Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolise him, who was good at everything from studies to sports. When Kotoko's house burned down, her father's good friend Machiko invited them to move in with her family. It was then that Kotoko realised Naoki was the elder son of Machiko, who took up the role of a fairy-godmother to bring the two together...despite the fact that Naoki was disgusted. Not discouraged, the clumsy and not-so-bright Kotoko started to do everything that would change her impression on him. Gradually, the icy-cold Naoki who disliked girls started to feel for Kotoko...
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Title: Can't Stand It Whatsoever
Released: July 2, 1996
Type: TV