Yūko Nakamura

Yūko Nakamura (中村優子, Nakamura Yūko) is a Japanese actress, born on 7 January 1975 in Fukui, Japan.^[1] She won the award for best actress at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2001 for the film Firefly (Hotaru) and the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for Strawberry Shortcakes.^[2]

Yūko Nakamura
Born	(1975-01-07) 7 January 1975 (age 50)
Occupation	Actress

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1999	Jubaku: Spellbound		Masato Harada
2000	TRUTH : A STREAM	Higuchi Kaori	Masahiro Tsuchihashi
2001	Firefly (Hotaru)	Ayako Mizusawa	Naomi Kawase	Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for Best Actress
2003	Rodeo Drive	Kana	Tadanori Kanou
	like a Desperado Under the Eaves'	Noriko	Shinji Aoyama	Short film for Jeonju International Film Festival
	Suicide Manual	Ricky	Osamu Fukutani
2004	Suicide Manual 2	Ricky	Osamu Fukutani
	Hotel Water Moon		Ryotaro Kawahara
	Bridge		Tadanori Kanou
	Over Drive		Takefumi Tsutsui
	Blood and Bones	Kiyoko Yamanashi	Yoichi Sai
2005	Ugoki, Hibiki, Hikari		Masahiro Tsuchihashi
	DOUBLE SUICIDE ELEGY	Asami Tanaka	Ryo Kamei
	The Samurai I Loved	Okimi	Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
	In the Pool		Satoshi Miki
2006	I, my, me, mine.	Ayako	Kenichi Watanabe
	Akiba	Yuko	Yuichi Onuma
	Colors		Kensaku Kakimoto
	Strawberry Shortcakes	Akiyo	Hitoshi Yazaki	Yokohama Film Festival for Best Supporting Actress
	Yotsuya Kaidan	Yoko	Chihiro Ikeda
2007	AWAKING	Etsuko	Junji Sakamoto
	Welcome to the Quiet Room	Kurita	Suzuki Matsuo
2008	A Glass Play In Kobe	Haruka Kanzaki	Masahiro Tsuchihashi
2009	Firefly (Hotaru) - Cannes film festival version	Ayako Mizusawa	Naomi Kawase	Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for Best Actress
	Kuhio Taisa	Michiko	Daihachi Yoshida
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Rinka	Yuji Nakae
	Machiakari no mukou ni	Yukako	Aki Yamamoto
	Visitors (segment "Koma")	Hatsuko	Naomi Kawase	Short film for Jeonju International Film Festival
2010	Tetsuo: The Bullet Man	Mitsue	Shinya Tsukamoto
	TORSO	Michiko	Yutaka Yamazaki
	BOX – THE HAKAMADA CASE	Hideko Hakamada	Banmei Takahashi
2011	Love and Treachery	Machiko	Hitoshi Yazaki
	Tada's Do-It-All House	Mari's mother	Tatsushi Ōmori
2012	Women on the Edge	Second daughter	Masahiro Kobayashi
	Ace Attorney	Sayuri Haine	Takashi Miike
	Look Over Here, Momose	Miyazaki Tetsuko	Saiji Yakumo
2013	Strangers When We Meet	Yukiko Kawamura	Masahiro Kobayashi	Jeonju Digital Project 2013
2015	Kamurobamura-e	Natsu	Suzuki Matsuo
	Good Strips	Sayoko Kudo	Yukiko Sode
	Our Little Sister	Yoko Asano	Hirokazu Kore-eda
	Fires on the Plain	Tamura's Wife	Shinya Tsukamoto
2016	Natsumi no Hotaru	Miyako	Ryūichi Hiroki
	The Sun	Junko Okudera	Yu Irie
	RESPECT		Naomi Kawase	Short film
2017	Tomato no shizuku	Shinobu	Hideo Sakaki
	Amy Said	Naoko Iida	Taishi Muramoto
2019	Moonlit Winter	Jun	Lim Dae-hyung
2022	Small, Slow But Steady		Sho Miyake	[3]
2023	Egoist	Shizuko Saito	Daishi Matsunaga	[4]
2024	The Box Man		Gakuryū Ishii	[5]
	Worlds Apart	Minori Kōdai	Natsuki Seta	[6]

Television

Year	Title	Network	Role
2007	Dondo Bare (どんど晴れ) / Perfect Blue Sky	NHK	Kiyomi Ishihara
2008	Judge II (ジャッジII ～島の裁判官　奮闘記～)	NHK
2010-2011	Carnation (カーネーション)	NHK	Kanako Yoshizawa (cancer patient)
2013	Henshin Interviewer no Yuuutsu (変身インタビュアーの憂鬱) / Transformation Interviewer's Depression	TBS	Manami Makabe
2014	Wakamono Tachi (若者たち2014) / All About My Siblings	Fuji TV	Shiho Nakagawa (ep.2-5)
2015	Mare	NHK	Shiori Okesaku
2015	Chanpon Tabetaka (ちゃんぽん食べたか) / I Want to Eat Nagasaki Champon Noodles	NHK	Kaori Mimura
2015	64 (ロクヨン)	NHK	Murakushi
2017	Hokuto Aru Satsujinsha no Kaishin (北斗 ある殺人者の回心) / Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion	WOWOW	Misako Hashizume
2017	Deddo Sutokku~Michi e no Chosen ( デッドストック～未知への挑戦～) / Dead Stock	TV Tokyo
2019	Giri/Haji	BBC/Netflix