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Hiromi Nagasaku
Person · female · Japan · Namegata · born 1970 · recording since 1993
Japanese actress and singer
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Also known as Hiromi Nagasaku · 永作 博美 · 永作博美 · 永作博美, 1970-
Timeline
6 events▣ Album 2✦ Award 2◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1970s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: My Home Town
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2000s
2010s
Biography
English biography236 words · 6 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371247910
Biography
Hiromi Nagasaku (永作 博美, Nagasaku Hiromi) is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a member of the J-pop group Ribbon. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times described her as "the best comic actress working in Japan today".
Career
Nagasaku appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 film Doppelganger.
She played a supporting role in the 2007 film Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!, for which she won the awards for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Hochi Film Awards and the Kinema Junpo magazine.
She won the Best Supporting Actress award for Rebirth at the 35th Japan Academy Prize in 2012.
Film
Doppelganger (2003)
Hanging Garden (2005)
Su-ki-da (2005)
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)
Dolphin Blue (2007)
Closed Note (2007)
Sex Is No Laughing Matter (2007)
Dosokai (2008)
R246 Story (2008)
The Clone Returns Home (2009)
Cast Me If You Can (2010), Aya
Wandering Home (2010), Yuki Sonoda
Rebirth (2011), Kiwako Nonomiya
Solomon's Perjury (2015)
The Furthest End Awaits (2015), Misaki Yoshida
True Mothers (2020), Satoko Kurihara
Until We Meet Again (2026), Minami Shimizu
Jinsei o Kaeta Conte (2026), Mom
Akiramemasen! (TBA), Ikuko Kirishima
Television
Kōmyō ga Tsuji (2006), Yodo-dono
Magerarenai Onna (2010)
Dirty Mama! (2012)
Chinmoku Hōtei (2017)
Mikazuki (2019), Chiaki Akasaka
Maiagare! (2022–23), Megumi Iwakura
Modern Love Tokyo (2022)
Plastic Beauty (2026), Taeko Numata
Dubbing
Where the Wild Things Are, K.W. (Lauren Ambrose)
Singles
"My Home Town
My Home TownSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1My Home Town2届かぬ想い3My Home Town (Backing Track)" (1993)
"Without You
Without YouSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Without You2あなただけに3Without You (Backing Track)" (1994)
"Ai ni Kite" (1994)
"9:01 pm" (1998)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 14 | 33.6th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (7 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
1993 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 9 tracks · 40:06
1Prelude1:202Go Alone For Love5:593私のままに4:534My Home Town (Album Version)4:585告白5:096雨の月曜日4:347いちばんの友達 〜I Hope Your Happiness〜4:368With4:569EAST3:411994 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 9 tracks · 39:37
1Feel Me3:482Drivin’4:273エアメイル4:494Without You3:505信じさせて下さい4:366恋と微笑みと花4:047逢いにきて4:508このままで もう少し4:539天使が胸に降りる時4:20
Single · 4
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | My Home TownSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 3 tracks1My Home Town 2届かぬ想い 3My Home Town (Backing Track) | 4 August 1993 | ||
| 1994 | Without YouSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 3 tracks1Without You 2あなただけに 3Without You (Backing Track) | 21 January 1994 | ||
| 1994 | 逢いにきてSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 3 tracks1逢いにきて 2恋と微笑みと花 3逢いにきて (Backing Track) | 17 June 1994 | ||
| 1998 | 9:01PMSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks19:01PM 2ひらめき 39:01PM（オリジナル・カラオケ） 4ひらめき（オリジナル・カラオケ） | 25 February 1998 |
Album · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 永作博美 SINGLES コンプリートSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 7 tracks · 32:03Disc 1 1My Home Town4:59 2届かぬ想い4:10 3Without You3:51 4あなただけに5:22 5逢いにきて4:49 6恋と微笑みと花4:04 Disc 21逢いにきて4:48 | Compilation | 17 August 2007 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Hiromi Nagasaku head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 14 | 33.6th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress | won | |
| 2012 | Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress | won |
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| ribbon(band) | 1989 | 1995 |
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e18b0ddc-1b43-44b4-9b7a-a8aaf2376810discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e18b0ddc-1b43-44b4-9b7a-a8aaf2376810core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137043seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Nagasakubiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Nagasaku
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Japanese singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q1137043 · MusicBrainz: e18b0ddc-1b43-44b4-9b7a-a8aaf2376810
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