Hiromi Nagasaku

Japanese actress and singer (born 1970)

Actress
singer

Years active1989–present

Hiromi Nagasaku (永作博美, Nagasaku Hiromi, born October 14, 1970)^{[citation needed]} is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a member of the J-pop group Ribbon. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times described her as "the best comic actress working in Japan today".^[1]

Career

Nagasaku appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 film Doppelganger.^[2]^[3]

She played a supporting role in the 2007 film Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!, for which she won the awards for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Hochi Film Awards^[4] and the Kinema Junpo magazine.^[5]

She won the Best Supporting Actress award for Rebirth at the 35th Japan Academy Prize in 2012.^[6]

Filmography

Film

Doppelganger (2003)
Hanging Garden (2005)
Su-ki-da (2005)
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)
Dolphin Blue (2007)
Closed Note (2007)
Sex Is No Laughing Matter (2007)
Dosokai (2008)
R246 Story (2008)
The Clone Returns Home (2009)
Cast Me If You Can (2010), Aya
Rebirth (2011), Kiwako Nonomiya
Solomon's Perjury (2015)
The Furthest End Awaits (2015), Misaki Yoshida
True Mothers (2020), Satoko Kurihara^[7]

Television

Kōmyō ga Tsuji (2006), Yodo-dono^[8]
Magerarenai Onna (2010)
Dirty Mama! (2012)
Chinmoku Hōtei (2017)
Mikazuki (2019), Chiaki Akasaka
Maiagare! (2022–23), Megumi Iwakura^[9]
Modern Love Tokyo (2022)^[10]

Dubbing

Where the Wild Things Are, K.W. (Lauren Ambrose)^[11]

Discography

Albums

N (1993)
Here and Now (1994)

Singles

"My Home Town" (1993)
"Without You" (1994)
"Ai ni Kite" (1994)
"9:01 pm" (1998)

References

^ Schilling, Mark (August 15, 2008). "Dosokai". Japan Times.
^ Mes, Tom (April 15, 2004). "Doppelgänger". Midnight Eye.
^ Fainaru, Dan (October 3, 2003). "Doppelganger". Screen International.
^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
^ Gray, Jason (January 11, 2008). "Suo's I Just Didn't Do It wins top Kinema Junpo honours". Screen International.
^ Blair, Gavin J. (March 2, 2012). "'Youkame no Semi' Wins Big at Japan Academy Prize Awards". The Hollywood Reporter.
^ "朝が来る". eiga.com. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
^ "功名が辻". Nagoya Touken World. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
^ "舞いあがれ！:22年度後期朝ドラ、家族キャスト4人が発表兄役に横山裕、母親役は永作博美". Mantan-web. February 7, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
^ "水川あさみ、池松壮亮、黒沢清が参加「モダンラブ・東京」Prime Videoで配信". Natalie. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
^ "かいじゅうたちのいるところ". Star Channel. Retrieved July 23, 2019.