Lily Franky (Actor)

Lily Franky is a Japanese actor, essayist, author of the best-selling autobiographical novel, Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad, which was turned into a film released in 2007.

Native name: リリー・フランキー
Occupation: Actor
Birthplace: Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture
Born: November 25, 1963 (age 52)
Height: 5' 9" (174 cm)
Blood type: O

Filmography as actor

Year	Movie	Role
2015	Bakuman	Sasaki, Weekly Shonen Jump Editor-in-chief
2015	Our Little Sister	Senichi Fukuda
2015	Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld
2014	As the Gods Will	Long-haired homeless man
2014	Judge!	Kagami-san
2013	The Devil’s Path	Kimura, aka "Sensei"
2013	Like Father, Like Son	Yudai Saiki (Yukari's husband)
2013	Yellow Elephant
2012	Bungo: Sasayaka na Yokubou
2012	Afro Tanaka	President of Asahi Engineering
2011	We Can’t Change the World But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia
2011	Love Strikes!	Takuya Sumida (43 years old)
2010	Boys on the Run	Saita Industries president
2009	Oh, My Buddha!
2008	Suspect X
2008	Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit
2008	All Around Us	Kanao
2001	Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf	Monzo Kobayashi

Latest news

Kankuro Kudo, Takayuki Yamada, and Lily Franky join live-action "Bakuman" cast

Kankuro Kudo, Takayuki Yamada, and Lily Franky have joined the cast of Hitoshi Ohne's live-action movie adaptation of Bakuman.Based on a manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, the...

2 years ago
Full trailer for "Judge!" starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Keiko Kitagawa

Shochiku has released a new full 90-second trailer for Akira Nagai’s upcoming advertising industry comedy Judge! starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Keiko Kitagawa.

3 years ago
Etsushi Toyokawa, Kyoka Suzuki, and Lily Franky join the cast of "Judge!"

Today Shochiku announced that Etsushi Toyokawa, Kyoka Suzuki, and Lily Franky have joined the cast of the upcoming advertising industry comedy Judge!The movie, which began filming on September 7,...

3 years ago
DreamWorks working out a deal to remake Kore-eda’s “Like Father, Like Son”

Deadline is reporting that DreamWorks is currently hashing out a deal with Fuji TV for the rights to remake Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son. DreamWorks principal partner Steven...

3 years ago
Takayuki Yamada, Pierre Taki, and Lily Franky to star in “Kyoaku” film adaptation

Today it was announced that actor Takayuki Yamada will star in Kyoaku, a film adaptation of the best-selling nonfiction novel Kyoaku -Aru Shikeishū no Kokuhatsu-.The novel told the story of a death...

3 years ago
Review: All Around Us (Gururi no Koto)

While the majority of romance dramas are purposely engineered to be idealistic escapism from the humdrum reality of relationships, All Around Us is the exact opposite: an unflinching look at a...

7 years ago