---
name: "Lily Franky"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lily-franky"
fi1m_id: "lily-franky"
imdb_id: "nm1410940"
tmdb_id: 123739
wikidata_id: "Q5359795"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 November 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T00:01:09.234263+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lily Franky

## Identity

Lily Franky

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lily-franky
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lily-franky
- **IMDb ID:** nm1410940
- **TMDB ID:** 123739
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5359795
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Franky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5359795, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1410940/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123739

Actor. Born 4 November 1963 in Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 November 1963, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
- **Also known as:** リリー・フランキー, Masaya Nakagawa, Lily Frankie, 릴리 프랭키, 中川雅也, Ririi Furankii, لیلی فرانکی
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Franky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5359795, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1410940/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123739

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shoplifters*](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md) (89)

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## Fi1m on Lily Franky

> Lily Franky makes flawed family men easy to like without asking us to excuse them. His work with Hirokazu Kore-eda is worth seeking out, particularly in *Shoplifters*, where being good company is no guarantee of being a good father.

Osamu Shibata's affability in *Shoplifters* (2018) is part of what makes him an unsettling father figure. Lily Franky lets us enjoy his company while leaving reasons to question his judgement plainly in view. We warmed to Osamu, then felt uneasy about how readily we had done so, because the performance makes his affection so persuasive. Franky gives us a man worth paying attention to, even when we would be reluctant to follow his lead.

His collaboration with Hirokazu Kore-eda took hold with *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), in which he played Yūdai Saiki. *Our Little Sister* (2015) and *After the Storm* (2016) continued the association before his lead in *Shoplifters*. These domestic stories offer a useful route into an actor frequently cast as ordinary or working-class family men. Kore-eda gives his warmth something useful to do: in *Shoplifters*, it helps explain the appeal of a household whose arrangements we have reason to question.

Playing opposite Sakura Ando as Nobuyo Shibata also keeps Franky's work from becoming a solo display. Ando allows tenderness and self-interest to belong to the same person, and he gives her an equally fallible figure to work alongside. Neither actor makes the moral complications look like an acting exercise. Their shared restraint is a large part of why *Shoplifters* can be tender and funny without making the household reassuring. Franky's contribution depends on fitting into that company; the lead role does not require him to seem more important than everyone else.

He has described the kind of person films often overlook: “Ordinary guys don’t really become main characters. But ordinary people usually have something that’s not likable about them.” *Shoplifters* makes good use of that interest in an ordinary man's faults, though a few stretches linger after their point has landed. Begin there, but allow Franky time to complicate your first impression.

## Biography

Lily Franky, born Masaya Nakagawa on 4 November 1963 in Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan, is a Japanese actor, illustrator and writer. He graduated from Musashino Art University and has worked in illustration, design, literature and music before focusing on acting.

He has appeared in more than forty films since 2001. Franky is known for roles in Hirokazu Kore-eda films including *Like Father, Like Son* (2013) as Yudai Saiki and *Shoplifters* (2018) as Osamu Shibata. Other credits include *Our Little Sister* (2015), *After the Storm* (2016) and *The Boy and the Beast* (2015).

Franky has received awards including the Cut Above Award at Japan Cuts in 2016 and recognition at the Japan Academy Film Prizes and Blue Ribbon Awards for performances in films such as *Scoop!* (2016) and *Shoplifters*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, asianwiki.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shoplifters* (2018), Fi1m 89, as Osamu Shibata — [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)

## Complete filmography (113)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?* (2026), as Kuroi
- *Diary of a Mad Old Man* (2026), as Utsugi
- *Until the T-Shirt Dries* (2026), series, as Koji Miyauchi
- *Fujiko* (2026), as Makoto Sasaoka
- *Made in Korea* (2025), series, as Osamu Ikeda
- *Diamonds in the Sand* (2025), as Yoji
- *Renoir* (2025), as Keiji Okita
- *1st Kiss* (2025), as Tenma Ichiro
- *Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle?* (2025), series, as Haruo Yamashita
- *Slow Train* (2025), as Katsumi Nikaido
- *Harbin* (2024), as Itō Hirobumi
- *What Comes After Love* (2024), series, as Takuto Aoki
- *Tokyo Swindlers* (2024), series, as Tatsu
- *Sunny* (2024), series, Actor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *The Parades* (2024), as Michael
- *Cottontail* (2024), as Kenzaburō
- *Comedy Island: Japan* (2023), series, Director
- *Undercurrent* (2023), as Michio Yamazaki
- *Analog* (2023), as Tamiya
- *Wheels and Axle* (2023), as Nobuomama
- *Call Me Chihiro* (2023), as Utsumi
- *The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House* (2023), series, as Ren
- *What Will You Do, Ieyasu?* (2023), series, as Hisamatsu Nagaie
- *A Mother's Touch* (2022), as Mitsunori Nagao
- *Bad City* (2022), as Wataru Gojo
- *He's Expecting* (2022), series, Actor
- *Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama* (2022), series, Actor
- *The Last 10 Years* (2022), as Kajiwara
- *Prior Convictions* (2022), as Fumio Toyama
- *That Day, Until the Curry Rice Is Made* (2021), Actor
- *Every Trick In The Book* (2021), as Maeda
- *It's a Flickering Life* (2021), as Hiroshi Izumi
- *Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction* (2021), as Mysterious Man
- *Town Without Sea* (2020), as Sho's Grandfather
- *Kyouen NG* (2020), series, as Mark Nomoto
- *Ainu Mosir* (2020), as Okada
- *The Gun 2020* (2020), Actor
- *A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura* (2020), series, as Masaki Himura
- *Not Quite Dead Yet* (2020), as Hino
- *Pension: Love Is Pink* (2020), series, as Shiro
- *The Naked Director* (2019), series, as Takei
- *Sea of Revival* (2019), as Onodera
- *Rikon na Futari* (2019), series, as Noda Ryusuke
- *Natsuzora* (2019), series, Actor
- *The Gun* (2018), Actor
- *Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together* (2018), as Private detective Nakagawa
- *Shoplifters* (2018), as Osamu Shibata — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)
- *Laplace's Witch* (2018), as Zentaro Uhara
- *Sunny* (2018), as Takeshi Oda
- *blank13* (2018), as Masato Matsuda
- *Miko Girl* (2018), as Otori
- *The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers* (2018), Actor
- *Issa* (2017), as Issa
- *The Last Shot in the Bar* (2017), as Jinya Kitashiro
- *Perfect Revolution* (2017), as Kuma
- *Tornado Girl* (2017), as Shu Koda
- *Hello, Detective Hedgehog* (2017), series, as Minami
- *A Beautiful Star* (2017), as Shigeichiro Osugi
- *Million Yen Women* (2017), series, as Tatsuyuki
- *Silver and Gold* (2017), series, as Ginji Hirai
- *Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow* (2016), as Nobuo Mori
- *Kamoshirenai Joyûtachi - 2016 -* (2016), Actor
- *My Dad and Mr. Ito* (2016), as Yasuaki Ito
- *Scoop!* (2016), as Chara-Gen
- *Crow's Blood* (2016), series, as Undertaker
- *Double Life* (2016), as Shinohara
- *After the Storm* (2016), as Koichiro Yamabe
- *While the Women Are Sleeping* (2016), as Iizuka
- *The Shell Collector* (2016), as Scholar
- *Aka Medaka* (2015), Actor
- *Fujiko* (2015), series, as Editor-in-chief Mizutani
- *Bakuman* (2015), as Sasaki
- *Three Stories of Love* (2015), as Atsushi's Senior
- *Dokutsu Ojisan* (2015), series, Actor
- *AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day* (2015), as Kenichi Fujiyoshi
- *Fires on the Plain* (2015), as Yasuda
- *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), as Hyakushūbō (voice)
- *Ren'ai Aru Aru* (2015), Actor
- *Our Little Sister* (2015), as Senichi Fukuda
- *Pieta in the Toilet* (2015), as Touru Yokota
- *Yakuza Apocalypse* (2015), as Genyo motherfucking Kamiura
- *Shokuzai no Sonata* (2015), series, Actor
- *As the Gods Will* (2014), as Homeless Man
- *Planet Mizsa* (2014), Actor
- *Hello Life from 55* (2014), series, Actor
- *Judge!* (2014), as Kagami
- *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), as Yudai Saiki
- *The Devil's Path* (2013), as Takao Kimura
- *I LOVE YOU* (2013), Actor
- *Radio* (2013), as Tobimatsu
- *Yellow Elephant* (2013), as Natsume
- *Bungo: Stories of Desire* (2012), Actor
- *Helter Skelter* (2012), as Kenichi-san
- *Afro Tanaka* (2012), as Company president
- *Lucky Seven* (2012), series, Actor
- *Love Strikes!* (2011), as Takuya Sumida
- *We Can't Change the World, But We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia* (2011), as bar master
- *クレイジーハニー* (2011), series, Actor
- *Flarella* (2010), Actor
- *Love Strikes!* (2010), series, as Sumi
- *Boys on the Run* (2010), as President
- *Ryōmaden* (2010), series, Actor
- *Ueno Juri and the Five Bags* (2009), series, as policeman #2
- *Oh, My Buddha!* (2009), as Oton
- *Suspect X* (2008), Actor
- *Code Blue* (2008), series, as Aizawa Seiji
- *All Around Us* (2008), as Kanao Satou
- *Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad* (2007), Novel
- *Tokyo Tower* (2007), series, Novel, Creator
- *Teruo Ishii Fan Club* (2006), Actor
- *Raid on a Ghostly Snack Bar!* (2006), Actor
- *Natsuyasumi no kyoshô* (2005), Actor
- *Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf* (2001), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Lily Franky](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-81eedf775826.jpg) Lily Franky — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Lily_Franky_from_%22MIKO_GIRL%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840170043902%29.jpg/1280px-Lily_Franky_from_%22MIKO_GIRL%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840170043902%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lily Franky and Chie Hayakawa at 2025 Cannes Photocall](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-e9251d6b47a0.jpg) Lily Franky and Chie Hayakawa at 2025 Cannes Photocall — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Lily_Franky_and_Chie_Hayakawa_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall.jpg/1280px-Lily_Franky_and_Chie_Hayakawa_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-25534777034c.jpg) Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_1.jpg/1280px-Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-96172ea5e32a.jpg) Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_2.jpg/1280px-Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lily Franky](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-d2ec30089cef.jpg) Lily Franky — Image via TMDB
- ![Lily Franky](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-635808fe5ffb.jpg) Lily Franky — Image via TMDB
- ![Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-ae5818495261.jpg) Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_3.jpg/1280px-Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall](https://film.one/media/person/128335/gallery-ecc0423ca2e8.jpg) Lily Franky at 2025 Cannes Photocall — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_4.jpg/1280px-Lily_Franky_at_2025_Cannes_Photocall_4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor 2017: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor (won)
- Juzo Itami Award 2014: Juzo Itami Award (won)
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer 2009: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer (won), for *Gururi no koto*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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