Lily Franky

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.

Lily Franky
Lily Franky at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival, 2017.
Born	Masaya Nakagawa (1963-11-04) 4 November 1963 (age 61) Fukuoka, Japan
Other names	Elvis Woodstock
Occupation(s)	Actor, writer, illustrator, designer, musician, lyricist, photographer, essayist
Years active	1980s–present

In this professional name, the given name is Lily Franky. There is no family name.^[1]

Career

In 2016, Lily 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.
2016	Crow's Blood	Undertaker	Cameo
2010	Code Blue		Season 2
	Ryomaden: The Legend	Kawada Shōryō	Taiga drama	[4]
2017	Million Yen Women	Tatsuyuki
	Silver and Gold	Ginji Hirai
	Hello, Detective Hedgehog	Minami
2019	Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky	Kazusada Mogi	Asadora	[5]
	Two Homelands	Kōki Hirota	Television film
	Idaten	Taketora Ogata	Taiga drama	[6]
	The Naked Director	Takei
2020	A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura	Himura	Episode 3	[7]
2022	He's Expecting	Eiichi Hiyama		[8]
2023	What Will You Do, Ieyasu?	Hisamatsu Toshikatsu	Taiga drama	[9]
	The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House	Ren		[10]
2024	Tokyo Swindlers	Tatsu		[11]
2024	What Comes After Love	Takuto Aoki	Episode 2, 3
2024–25	Omusubi	Narrator	Asadora	[12]
2025	Who Saw The Peacock Dance in the Jungle?	Haruo Yamashita		[13]

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			[14]
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	[15]
	The Top Secret: Murder in Mind			[16]
	Blank13	Kōji's father
	While the Women Are Sleeping	Iizuka
	A Double Life	Professor Shinohara		[17]
	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			[18]
	Sunny	Oda		[19]
	Laplace's Witch	Zentarō Uhara
	Shoplifters	Osamu Shibata	Lead role	[20]
	The Gun			[21]
2019	Sea of Revival	Onodera		[22]
2020	Town Without Sea			[23]
	Ainu Mosir	Okada		[24]
	Not Quite Dead Yet	Hino		[25]
2021	Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction			[26]
	It's a Flickering Life			[27]
	Every Trick in the Book	Maeda		[28]
	When the Curry Is Ready	Ken'ichi		[29]
2022	Cottontail	Kenzaburō	British-Japanese film	[30]
	Prior Convictions	Fumio Tōyama		[31]
	The Last 10 Years	Kajiwara		[32]
	A Mother's Touch			[33]
2023	Bad City	Wataru Gojō		[34]
	Call Me Chihiro	Utsumi		[35]
	Undercurrent	Michio Yamasaki		[36]
	Analog	Tamiya		[37]
	Wheels and Axle			[38]
2024	The Parades	Michael		[39]
	Harbin	Itō Hirobumi	South Korean film	[40]
2025	First Kiss	Ichiro Tenma		[41]
	Renoir	Keiji		[42]
TBA	Diamonds in the Sand	Yoji	Lead role	[43]

Japanese dub

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2016	Song of the Sea	Conor / Mac Lir		[44]
2018	My Life as a Courgette	Raymond		[45]
2022	The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily	Old Bear		[46]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result
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