# 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. He has appeared in more than 40 films since 2001.

## 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.

## Filmography
### Television

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

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | The Devil's Path | Sensei | |
| 2013 | Yellow Elephant | | |
| 2014 | As the Gods Will | Homeless man/God | |
| 2015 | Our Little Sister | Sen-ichi Fukuda | |
| 2015 | Yakuza Apocalypse | Genyō Kamiura | |
| 2015 | The Boy and the Beast | Hyakushūbō (voice) | |
| 2015 | Three Stories of Love | | |
| 2015 | Fires on the Plain | | |
| 2015 | Bakuman | Sasaki | |
| 2016 | After the Storm | Yamabe | |
| 2016 | Scoop! | Charagen | |
| 2016 | The Shell Collector | | Lead role |
| 2016 | The Top Secret: Murder in Mind | | |
| 2016 | Blank13 | Kōji's father | |
| 2016 | While the Women Are Sleeping | Iizuka | |
| 2016 | A Double Life | Professor Shinohara | |
| 2016 | Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow | Nobuo Mori | |
| 2016 | My Dad and Mr. Ito | Mr. Ito | |
| 2017 | Tornado Girl | | |
| 2017 | A Beautiful Star | Jūichirō Ōsugi | Lead role |
| 2017 | Perfect Revolution | Kuma | Lead role |
| 2017 | The Last Shot in the Bar | | |
| 2018 | Miko Girl | | |
| 2018 | Sunny | Oda | |
| 2018 | Laplace's Witch | Zentarō Uhara | |
| 2018 | Shoplifters | Osamu Shibata | Lead role |
| 2018 | The Gun | | |
| 2019 | Sea of Revival | Onodera | |
| 2020 | Town Without Sea | | |
| 2020 | Ainu Mosir | Okada | |
| 2020 | Not Quite Dead Yet | Hino | |
| 2021 | Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction | | |
| 2021 | It's a Flickering Life | | |
| 2021 | Every Trick in the Book | Maeda | |
| 2021 | When the Curry Is Ready | Ken'ichi | |
| 2022 | Cottontail | Kenzaburō | British-Japanese film |
| 2022 | Prior Convictions | Fumio Tōyama | |
| 2022 | The Last 10 Years | Kajiwara | |
| 2022 | A Mother's Touch | | |
| 2023 | Bad City | Wataru Gojō | |
| 2023 | Call Me Chihiro | Utsumi | |
| 2023 | Undercurrent | Michio Yamasaki | |
| 2023 | Analog | Tamiya | |
| 2023 | Wheels and Axle | | |
| 2024 | The Parades | Michael | |
| 2025 | First Kiss | Ichiro Tenma | |
| 2025 | Renoir | Keiji | |
| TBA | Diamonds in the Sand | Yoji | Lead role |

### Japanese dub

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2016 | Song of the Sea | Conor / Mac Lir |
| 2018 | My Life as a Courgette | Raymond |
| 2022 | The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily | Old Bear |

## Awards

| Year | Award | Category | Work(s) | Result |
| 2009 | 51st Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Newcomer | All Around Us | Won |
| 2009 | 18th Japanese Movie Critics Awards | Best Newcomer | All Around Us | 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 | The Devil's Path and Like Father, Like Son | Won |
| 2014 | 35th Yokohama Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | The Devil's Path and Like Father, Like Son | Won |
| 2014 | 23rd Japanese Movie Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Devil's Path and Like Father, Like Son | Won |
| 2014 | 37th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Like Father, Like Son | Won |
| 2014 | 37th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Supporting Actor | The Devil's Path | Nominated |
| 2016 | 41st Hochi Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | After the Storm, Scoop! and Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow | Nominated |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2017 | 40th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Scoop! | Nominated |
| 2019 | 73rd Mainichi Film Awards | Best Actor | Shoplifters | Nominated |
| 2019 | 61st Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Actor | Shoplifters | Nominated |
| 2019 | 28th Tokyo Sports Film Award | Best Actor | Shoplifters | Won |
| 2019 | 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Actor | Shoplifters | Nominated |