Yukie Nakama ( born October 30, 1979?) is a Ryukyuan actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Urasoe, Okinawa, the youngest of five siblings.
She is one of the few young Japanese celebrities that have been able to break free from their teeny-bopper image and emerge as one of the country’s most popular and well-respected actresses. At the start of her career she was a gravure idol and appeared in bit parts until her career breakthrough role playing Sadako in “Ring 0: Birthday (2000).”

In 2000, Nakama demonstrated her talent for comedy with her lead role in the Japanese television drama Trick which proved so popular that it had two more seasons, but it was the top-rating TV series Gokusen (2002), a live-action version of the popular manga, that established her as one of Japan’s most popular and bankable actresses.

Nakama has also proven her bankability through commercial endorsements, such as Nissin, Glico, Lotte, Asahi, Shiseido, au by KDDI, and has even served as a spokesperson for Japan Railways and the Japanese Tax Agency. As one of Japan’s most ubiquitous celebrity endorsers, she is a regular face on billboards and at subway stations. She is managed by Production Ogi.

In 2008, Nakama has been filming I Want to Be a Shellfish.

Later on, the group of girls in the Lighthouse discover Yuko, who joins the girls. When Shuya was brought to them, unconscious and injured, she was terrified, and prayed that he would die. When Yukie Utsumi brought them the news that he would recover, Yuko decided she would kill him. In the novel and Japanese-language manga, although her designated weapon is a telescoping spring baton, she also possesses a small bottle of potassium cyanide, marked “special bonus”, though in the manga the chemical given was marked as hydrocyanic acid; in the film and English-language manga the poison is her designated weapon. Yuko decides to put some of this poison into Shuya’s food. Her plan backfires, however, when Yuka Nakagawa tastes Shuya’s meal and dies. The girls all become panicked, and after an extended battle, Yuko is the only survivor.
In the novel and manga, by this point, Shuya manages to get out of his room and enter the kitchen. Shuya, shocked at the deaths of the girls, mourns Yukie. Yuko shoots at Shuuya, and runs to the top of the lighthouse, with Shuya chasing her. At the top of the lighthouse, when Shuuya catches up to her, she shoots at him. Yuko loses her footing and slips. Shuya catches her and tries to pull her up, despite his severe injuries. Yuko realises that Shuya is responsible for saving her life, even though he suffers agonizing pain, which leads her to realise that he was good after all; her friends died in vain. Yuko is deeply distraught that she discovers Shuya is not as bad as she thought, but also she feels she ‘lit the fuse’ for the lighthouse fiasco. Yuko pries her hand free of Shuya’s, and falls to her death on a building’s roof. In the manga, she is seen, limbs twisted and side open, but smiling sadly.

In the film version Yuko opens the door to Shuya’s room confesses to starting an incident and runs up the stairs. Once at the balcony, she simply jumps off the lighthouse while Shuya checks on the other girls. Shuya then climbs to the top of the lighthouse to find Yuko’s body being splashed by the waves below.

In the manga, after she and the other girls die, Shuya drags Yuko’s body inside the lighthouse (proven by the manga showing bloody streaks and a later fixed up Yuko, as her limbs were twisted and her once open side mended by tape (where it had been split open by her fall)) and Yuko is placed with her deceased friends, hand in hand as Shuya laments their deaths, being caused partly by him and partly by their lack of trust despite being such a close-knit group.

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Yuko runs through the island in a complete panic when she witnesses the fight between Shuya Nanahara and Tatsumichi Oki. From her viewpoint, it seems that Shuya killed Tatsumichi, and she flees from the scene in terror. (After this she refer to Shuya as a “Demon Boy”.)
In the English-language manga she had a history of delusions, often faith-based, in which she believed killing Shuya was ‘God’s Will’, where she had seen a pastor about her delusions, and apparently had been at least somewhat mentally unbalanced as her file had spoke of her own doctor’s notes on her.

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Yuko Sakaki is one of the class of third-year students at the fictional Shiroiwa Junior High School in the fictional town of Shiroiwa, Kagawa Prefecture.
In the novel, as a child, Yuko’s alcoholic father used to abuse her, her mother, and her older brother. Her father was stabbed and killed by local Yakuza over a gambling dispute when Yuko was in the first grade. She still had nightmares about him, and had since become terrified of any violent or gory situation.

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Her baby was due on 17 April 2006, however a healthy baby girl was born to her 5 days early, on 12 April 2006 at a Tokyo hospital. It was said that Jun Itoda was not present at the birth because of work commitments that day, but came to see Yumi and the baby after his work schedule.
They divorced on January 8, 2009.

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Her baby was due on 17 April 2006, however a healthy baby girl was born to her 5 days early, on 12 April 2006 at a Tokyo hospital. It was said that Jun Itoda was not present at the birth because of work commitments that day, but came to see Yumi and the baby after his work schedule.

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Yumi was born in Taito, Tokyo, Japan. She made her modelling debut at two years of age and her J-Pop singing debut on 23 June 1993, aged almost twelve. Her big break was in 1994, with the drama Ie Nakiko.

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