Miki Nakatani Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Revealing no genre bias, actress Miki Nakatani nonetheless gravitated mostly to international crossover successes produced in her native Japan, such as the first two installments of the Ringu cycle (1998 and 1999, respectively), the gentle coming-of-age drama Dead Run (2005), and the erotic...Read More

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Happily Ever After

Actors: Miki Nakatani, Hiroshi Abe, Toshiyuki Nishida, Kenichi Endo, Carrousel Maki

Synopsis: Is bad love better than no love at all? A woman finds herself pondering that question in this dark comedy from filmmaker Yukihiko Tsutsumi. When she was a teenager, Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani) was the sort of girl whom people tended to ignore, and her efforts to stand out among her fellow Read More

8/15/08
Silk

Actors: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Miki Nakatani

Synopsis: Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. The mission succeeds, and this allows the man to live in great comfort with his Read More

9/14/07
Train Man: Densha Otoko

Actors: Takayuki Yamada, Miki Nakatani, Ren Osugi

Synopsis: A socially-challenged otaku (Japanese slang for "geek") saves an attractive female from the unwanted advances of a lecherous salaryman while commuting on the local train route, only to become infatuated with the kind and thankful woman in a romantic comedy that takes its cue from a real-life Read More

9/22/06
Memories of Matsuko

Actors: Eita, Miki Nakatani, Yusuke Iseya, Mikako Ichikawa, Akira Emoto

Synopsis: An aimless twenty-year old drowning himself in booze after a recent break-up begins to come around while piecing together the life of the aunt he never knew he had in director Tetsuya Nakashima's adaptation of Muneki Yamada's original novel. Unable to deal with his latest break-up, Sho Kawajiri Read More

2006
Loft

Actors: Miki Nakatani, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ren Osugi, Noriko Eguchi

2005
Dead Run

Actors: Yuya Tegoshi, Hanae Kan, Etsushi Toyokawa, Miki Nakatani, Ren Ohsugi

Synopsis: One young man's struggle to find happiness in a family and a city fraught with strife sets the stage for this coming-of-age drama. Shuji (Yuya Tegoshi) and Shuichi are two brothers who were born and raised in Hama, a city in Western Japan. Shuichi is an ambitious young man who is determined to Read More

2005
Rikidozan

Actors: Sul Gyung-gu, Miki Nakatani, Hagiwara Masato, Funaki Masakatsu

2004
Mibu gishiden

Synopsis: When the Last Sword Is Drawn opens in Tokyo in 1899, when an elderly man, Saito (Koichi Sato), brings his young grandson to see a local doctor, Ono (Takehiro Murata). Saito notices an old photo of a samurai in the doctor's home and asks him about it. As it turns out, the photo is of Yoshimura (Kiichi Nakai Read More

2002
Ringu 2

Actors: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato, Kyoko Fukada, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: Hideo Nakata follows up on the phenomenal success of Ringu -- the highest grossing Japanese film up to that point -- with this effort. In the previous film, Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) was a television reporter doing a piece on a videotape that seemed to kill those who watched it. Not long after Read More

1999
Chaos

Synopsis: Following up on the wild success of Ring and Ring 2, Hideo Nakata takes a break from spine-chilling horror to direct his labyrinthine postmodern crime thriller based on a book by Shogo Utano. After wealthy businessman Takayuki Komiyama (Ken Mitsuichi) finishes lunch with his beautiful wife Saori Read More

1999
Ringu

Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yoichi Namata

Synopsis: In this psychological horror story from Japan, a legend circulates among teenagers that if one watches a certain video at a certain time of the night, the telephone will ring right afterward, and one week later, you will die. When Masami (Hitomi Sato) tells her friend Imako this story, she scoffs Read More

1998
Rasen

Actors: Koichi Sato, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shingo Tsurumi, Hinako Saeki, Miki Nakatani

1998