Yukie Nakama is considered to be one of the most bankable actresses on Japanese television. :-)
She achieved fame in Japan in the TVs show "Trick" as a young magician who helps a professor debunk spiritualists and solve supernatural cases. The series ran for three seasons and spawned as many movies, but it was her role as Kumiko Yamaguchi, a teacher in an all-male school in the TV series "Gokusen," a live-action version of a Japanese art comic, that made her a star in the Land of the Rising Sun.
