Yūichi Nakamura (actor)

For the voice actor, see Yuichi Nakamura (voice actor).

Yūichi Nakamura
中村 優一
Born	(1987-10-08) October 8, 1987 (age 37) Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2003–2012, 2014–present

Yūichi Nakamura (中村 優一, Nakamura Yūichi, born October 8, 1987) is a Japanese actor. He is best known for the roles of Kyōsuke Kiriya in the 2005 tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Hibiki, Otoya Hanazono in the 2006 midnight drama Princess Princess D, and Yuto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos in the 2007 tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O.

Nakamura was affiliated with the acting group D-Boys produced by Watanabe Entertainment.

In 2012, he announced he would be taking a break from show business, but in 2014 he announced he had been signed to a new talent agency, G-Star.Pro.^[1]

Career

Nakamura started his career in entertainment in 2003, joining the talent agency Johnny & Associates under the Johnny's Jr. division. However, through his time in Johnny's Jr., Nakamura realized he had more interest in pursuing a career in acting than in music, despite the passion for dance that motivated him to join the agency. When Watanabe Entertainment's action production group D-Boys announced its first public audition searching for new talents in 2004, Nakamura left Johnny & Associates to try for the new group that conformed more to the career he sought.^[2]

On July 27, 2004, Nakamura performed in the D-Boys Open Audition, and came in as the Grand Prize winner. He joined the group shortly after,^[3] along with runner-up Shunji Igarashi and third-placer Katsuki Nakamura. Nakamura was one of the constantly-expanding group's longest-standing members.

In March 2010, Nakamura became part of a new D-Boys sub-unit named D-Date alongside Shunji Igarashi, Kōji Seto, Hirofumi Araki and Arata Horii,^[4] but had to leave for health reasons and medical treatment. Despite recovering, on September 25, 2012, he resigned from his agency, retiring from the entertainment industry.^[5]

He returns to the show business on August 31, 2014.^[6]

On December 18, 2022, Nakamura announces his marriage to a non-celebrity woman.^[7]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network
2005	Gokusen 2	Yūichi Kawada	Nippon Television
	Daisuki! Itsugo Go!!	n/a	Tokyo Broadcasting System
	Kamen Rider Hibiki	Kyosuke Kiriya	TV Asahi
2006	Kitana(i) Hero	Hiroshi Onodera	Nippon Television
	Princess Princess D	Otoya Hanazono	TV Asahi
	DD-Boys	Himself	TV Asahi
	Kazoku Zenzai	Kou Kamizawa	Tokyo Broadcasting System
2007	Puzzle	Masanori Ootaka	TV Asahi
	Shinigami no Ballad	Makoto Hayama	TV Tokyo
	Delicious Gakuin	Ryouji Nangou	TV Tokyo
	Kamen Rider Den-O	Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos	TV Asahi
2008	Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu	Masayuki Misaki	Fuji Television
2009	Twin Spica	Shū Suzuki	NHK
	Last Mail 2	Kazuki Yamada	BS Asahi
	The Negotiator	Tomoyuki Miura	TV Asahi
2010	Sunao ni Narenakute	Shu Mizuno	Fuji Television
	Jotei Kaoruko	Junpei Kojima	TV Asahi
	Moyashimon	Tadayasu Souemon Sawaki	Fuji Television
2019	Kamen Rider Zi-O	Kyosuke Kiriya (later transform to Kamen Rider Hibiki)	TV Asahi
		Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos

Cinema

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2007	Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!	Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos
2008	Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka	Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos
	Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown	Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos
	Classmates	Jun Shibahara
	Taiikukan Baby	Jun Shibahara
	Shakariki!	Daisuke Hatomura (Poppo)
	Bokura no Houteishiki	Shinpei Shimokura
	Kaze Ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru	Akane Kashiwazaki
2009	Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship	Yūto Sakurai
	Wangan Midnight	Akio Asakura
2010	Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy	Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos
2015	Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3	Yūto Sakurai/Kamen Rider Zeronos
2016	Humming of Yaeko	Eiji Ishizaki
2020	Dance, Mita	Mayor Maruyama
2021	Love and the Grand Tug-of-war			[8]
2022	Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z	Tokioka Ryuichi/Zabil/Evil Trigger (voice)
	1446: An Eternal Minute			[9]
	Nagisa ni Saku Hana			[10]
2024	Let It Rain			[11]

Other media

Radio

• Sunday Talking D-Theater feat. Yuichi Nakamura -I'll always be beside you- (2009)
• D-Boys Be Ambitious (2010)

Theatre

• Please Me (2005)
• Limit - Anata no monogatari wa nan desu ka? (2005)
• Sophistry (2006)
• Out of Order (2007)
• D-Boys Stage Vol.1: Kanbai Onrei (2007)
• Adult na Onnatachi (2007)
• Aru Hi, Bokura wa Yume no Naka de Deau (2007)
• D-Boys Stage Vol.2: Last Game (2008)
• D-Boys Stage Vol.3: ~Karasu~ 10 (2009)
• D-Boys Stage 2010: Trial-2: Last Game (2010)

Voice acting

• Kemono no Gotoku Hisoyaka Ni: Kotodama Tsukai drama CD (2007)
• Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride video game (2008)
• Bihada Ichizoku anime (2008)
• Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis video game (2016)

Endorsements

• Kentucky Fried Chicken: Arigato no Uta (2007)
• Sapporo Beverage: Gerolsteiner (2008)

Promotional media

Nakamura has been featured in the following promotional releases:

CDs

• Princess Princess D: Character Song Series Vol.2: Shiawase no Yokan - Yuichi Nakamura, Kento Shibuya & Kazuma
• Kamen Rider Den-O: Action-Zero - Yuichi Nakamura & Hōchū Ōtsuka
• Doukyuusei/Taiikukan Baby: Doukyusei,Taiikukan Baby - Yuichi Nakamura
• Bokura no Houteishiki: Futari dake no Happy Birthday -with Bokushiki Member- - Honey L Days with Bokushiki Member
• Kamen Rider Den-O: Action-Zero 2010 - Yuichi Nakamura & Hōchū Ōtsuka

DVDs

• Princess Princess D: Character Image DVD vol.2 (2006/10)
• Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born! making DVD -from the den-liner's window- (2007/07)
• Kamen Rider Den-O: Special Talk Show -close in, all imagin! it's climax!- (2007/11)
• Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Stage and Cast Talk Show (2008/04)
• Boku no Hoteishiki: Actor Nakamura Yuichi (2008/10)
• Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka: Collector's pack plus Den-Kiva festival (2008/11)
• D-Boys Boy Friend series vol.2: Yuichi Nakamura Self-Discovery (2009/08)
• Making Of Wangan Midnight The Movie ~Asakura Akio in Akuma no Z~ (2009/08)
• D-Boys Boy Friend series vol.7: 7 HEROES (2010/02)
• Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy: Imagin super climax tour 2010 (2010/09)

Photobooks

• D-Boys: D-Boys (2005/04, ISBN 4-924566-42-X)
• D-Boys: Start! (2006/03, ISBN 4-05-403035-1)
• Official Photo Album Princess Princess D (2006/08, ISBN 4-403-65027-9)
• Princess Princess D Making Book (2006/10, ISBN 4-403-65028-7)
• Kamen Rider Den-O Character Book vol. 01 (2007/08 ISBN 978-4-02-213800-2)
• Den-O Perspective (2008/01 ISBN 978-4-8130-6206-6)
• Kamen Rider Den-O Character Book vol. 02 (2008/03 ISBN 978-4-02-213820-0)
• Yuichi (2008/03 ISBN 978-4-05-403727-4) - solo photobook
• D-Boys in the movie: Shakariki! (2008/08, ISBN 4-8470-4122-4)
• Den-O Final Invitation (2008/09 ISBN 4-7778-0596-4)
• Bokura no Houteishiki: Official Photobook (2008/09 ISBN 4-8130-8012-X)
• D-Boys: Dash! (2008/12, ISBN 4-04-895035-5)
• Den-O Neo Generation!! [+ Decade] (2009/06 ISBN 978-4-7778-0664-5)
• D-Boys: Darling (2010/03 ISBN 978-4-391-13869-6)
• Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy: Episode Red Official Guide Book (2010/05 ISBN 978-4-04-885060-5)
• Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy: Character Book (2010/06 ISBN 978-4-86336-091-4)
• Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy: Complete Book -DEN-O TRILOGIC- (2010/07 ISBN 978-4-7778-0790-1)
• Birth -Standing There- (2010/10, ISBN 978-4-04-895087-9) - solo photobook

References

1. "皆様へ". 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
2. "D-RADIO BOYS 2008年01月05日 (Close-up Member: Yuichi Nakamura)". D-RADIO BOYS feat. D-BOYS. Season 1. Episode 14. 2008-01-05.
3. "1st D-BOYS Audition Winners announcement as of August 15, 2004". Archived from the original on 2004-08-15. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
4. "D☆DATE OFFICIAL WEBSITE". Retrieved 2010-12-04.
5. 俳優・中村優一が芸能界卒業「違う道を歩んでいきたい」 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-09-25.
6. "Yuichi Nakamura Return to Show Business" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-31.
7. "中村優一、一般女性との結婚報告「人生を支え合いながら歩んでいけたら」". ORICON NEWS. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
8. "大綱引の恋". eiga.com. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
9. "永遠の1分。". eiga.com. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
10. "渚に咲く花". eiga.com. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
11. "アディクトを待ちながら". eiga.com. Retrieved 4 September 2024.

External links

• Official profile (in Japanese)
• Official blog (in Japanese)