Lily Franky
Japanese illustrator, writer and actor (born 1963)
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Masaya Nakagawa (中川 雅也, Nakagawa Masaya; born 4 November 1963), known professionally as Lily Franky (リリー・フランキー, Rirī Furankī), is a Japanese illustrator, writer, and actor.[2] He has appeared in more than 40 films since 2001.
OthernameElvis Woodstock
OccupationsActor, writer, illustrator, designer, musician, lyricist, photographer, essayist
Yearsactive1980s–present
Lily Franky | |
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Franky at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025 | |
| Born | Masaya Nakagawa 4 November 1963 |
| Other name | Elvis Woodstock |
| Occupations | Actor, writer, illustrator, designer, musician, lyricist, photographer, essayist |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
Career
In 2016, Franky received the Cut Above Award for Outstanding Performance in Film at Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York.[3]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995–96 | Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō | |||
| 2010 | Code Blue | Season 2 | ||
| Ryomaden: The Legend | Kawada Shōryō | Taiga drama | [4] | |
| 2016 | Crow's Blood | Undertaker | Cameo | |
| 2017 | Million Yen Women | Tatsuyuki | ||
| Silver and Gold | Ginji Hirai | |||
| Hello, Detective Hedgehog | Minami | |||
| 2019 | Idaten | Taketora Ogata | Taiga drama | [5] |
| Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky | Kazusada Mogi | Asadora | [6] | |
| Two Homelands | Kōki Hirota | Television film | ||
| The Naked Director | Takei | |||
| Terrace House: Tokyo 2019–2020 | Himself | Cameo | [7] | |
| 2020 | A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura | Himura | Episode 3 | [8] |
| 2022 | He's Expecting | Eiichi Hiyama | [9] | |
| 2023 | What Will You Do, Ieyasu? | Hisamatsu Toshikatsu | Taiga drama | [10] |
| The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House | Ren | [11] | ||
| 2024 | Tokyo Swindlers | Tatsu | [12] | |
| What Comes After Love | Takuto Aoki | Episode 2, 3 | ||
| 2024–25 | Omusubi | Narrator | Asadora | [13] |
| 2025 | Who Saw The Peacock Dance in the Jungle? | Haruo Yamashita | [14] |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf | |||
| 2008 | All Around Us | Kanao Satō | ||
| 2011 | We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. | The bar master | ||
| 2013 | Like Father, Like Son | Yūdai Saiki | ||
| The Devil's Path | Sensei | |||
| Yellow Elephant | [15] | |||
| 2014 | As the Gods Will | Homeless man/God | ||
| 2015 | Our Little Sister | Sen-ichi Fukuda | ||
| Yakuza Apocalypse | Genyō Kamiura | |||
| The Boy and the Beast | Hyakushūbō (voice) | |||
| Three Stories of Love | ||||
| Fires on the Plain | ||||
| Bakuman | Sasaki | |||
| 2016 | After the Storm | Yamabe | ||
| Scoop! | Charagen | |||
| The Shell Collector | Lead role | [16] | ||
| The Top Secret: Murder in Mind | [17] | |||
| Blank13 | Kōji's father | |||
| While the Women Are Sleeping | Iizuka | |||
| A Double Life | Professor Shinohara | [18] | ||
| Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow | Nobuo Mori | |||
| My Dad and Mr. Ito | Mr. Ito | |||
| 2017 | Tornado Girl | |||
| A Beautiful Star | Jūichirō Ōsugi | Lead role | ||
| Perfect Revolution | Kuma | Lead role | ||
| The Last Shot in the Bar | ||||
| 2018 | Miko Girl | [19] | ||
| Sunny | Oda | [20] | ||
| Laplace's Witch | Zentarō Uhara | |||
| Shoplifters | Osamu Shibata | Lead role | [21] | |
| The Gun | [22] | |||
| 2019 | Sea of Revival | Onodera | [23] | |
| 2020 | Town Without Sea | [24] | ||
| Ainu Mosir | Okada | [25] | ||
| Not Quite Dead Yet | Hino | [26] | ||
| 2021 | Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction | [27] | ||
| It's a Flickering Life | [28] | |||
| Every Trick in the Book | Maeda | [29] | ||
| When the Curry Is Ready | Ken'ichi | [30] | ||
| 2022 | Cottontail | Kenzaburō | British-Japanese film | [31] |
| Prior Convictions | Fumio Tōyama | [32] | ||
| The Last 10 Years | Kajiwara | [33] | ||
| A Mother's Touch | [34] | |||
| 2023 | Bad City | Wataru Gojō | [35] | |
| Call Me Chihiro | Utsumi | [36] | ||
| Undercurrent | Michio Yamasaki | [37] | ||
| Analog | Tamiya | [38] | ||
| Wheels and Axle | [39] | |||
| 2024 | The Parades | Michael | [40] | |
| Harbin | Itō Hirobumi | South Korean film | [41] | |
| 2025 | 1st Kiss | Ichiro Tenma | [42] | |
| Renoir | Keiji | [43] | ||
| 2026 | Fujiko | Sasaki | [44] | |
| Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People | Kuroi | [45] | ||
| TBA | Diamonds in the Sand | Yoji | Lead role | [46] |
Japanese dubbing
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Song of the Sea | Conor / Mac Lir | [47] | |
| 2018 | My Life as a Courgette | Raymond | [48] | |
| 2022 | The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily | Old Bear | [49] | |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Work(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 51st Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Newcomer | All Around Us | Won | |
| 18th Japanese Movie Critics Awards | Best Newcomer | Won | |||
| 2013 | 26th Nikkan Sports Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | The Devil's Path and Like Father, Like Son | Won | |
| 2014 | 87th Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Won | ||
| 35th Yokohama Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | Won | |||
| 23rd Japanese Movie Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Won | |||
| 37th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Like Father, Like Son | Won | ||
| The Devil's Path | Nominated | ||||
| 2016 | 41st Hochi Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | After the Storm, Scoop! and Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow | Nominated | |
| 29th Nikkan Sports Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | After the Storm and Scoop! | Nominated | ||
| 2017 | 59th Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow and Scoop! | Won | |
| 40th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Scoop! | Nominated | ||
| 2019 | 73rd Mainichi Film Awards | Best Actor | Shoplifters | Nominated | |
| 61st Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Actor | Nominated | |||
| 28th Tokyo Sports Film Award | Best Actor | Won | |||
| 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Actor | Nominated | [50] | ||
