Abe Hiroshi and Yukie Nakama
Both has been successful in each of their path but one thing still ties these two great Japanese as one and that is the eternal TRICK series!
Of Him...
He's been stepped on by Godzilla, crossed paths with Musashi and Yoshitsune, and wielded the sword of Alexander the Great. He filled Mifune Toshiro's shoes in a remake of a Kurosawa Akira classic, and he's worked with the best of Japan's current crop of filmmaking masters, including Iwai Shunji and Kore-eda Hirokazu. Abe Hiroshi just might be the luckiest guy at work today in Japan's entertainment industry. The one-time model's quirky, atypically handsome features allow him to essay suave dramatic leads, over-the-top comic book heroes and villains, and comedic clowns with equal believability. Abe Hiroshi has played them all, and if you've seen the exuberant energy he's put into any of the crazy characters he's portrayed, you know he's having a blast doing it.
[Tricky Business]
While Abe was clearly having a lot of fun playing opposite such luminaries as Tony Leung and Godzilla on the big screen, television has always been the ultimate proving ground for Japanese talent. For Abe, the breakthrough moment was 2000's Trick, an offbeat comedy/mystery series that's been described as equal parts X-Files and Scooby-Doo. Trick's irresistible premise concerns Nakama Yukie as an out-of-work magician who teams up with a skeptic professor of psychics (Abe) to investigate and debunk supernatural mysteries. The show scored a big hit for Asahi TV, in part thanks to its genre-bending novelty, but Trick owes its success mainly to the chemistry between Nakama's savvy prestidigitator and Abe's brainy but easily bamboozled academic. After Trick, Abe was on the fast track to superstardom, but he's always found time to reprise the role that made him famous in various TV specials and feature film sequels, to the delight of fans.
On the other hand... of Her...
Yukie Nakama is a Japanese multi-awarded actress Today, she is one of Japan's most popular and well-respected actresses.
Actress Yukie Nakama says that starring in the 3-D film “Gekijoban Trick: Reinosha Battle Royale” has given her a chance to return to the feelings she had when she first started as an actress.
Nakama, 30, and actor Hiroshi Abe, 45, star in the film based on the popular “Trick” TV series and comic books about a magician (Nakama) and a physicist (Abe) who debunk fraudulent spiritualists. TV Asahi is also producing a special, “Trick Daikanshasai,” to mark the 10th anniversary of the series.
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, “Gekijoban Trick: Reinosha Battle Royale” is the third film version of the popular TV series that began airing in 2000 as a late-night drama.
The latest movie, which is currently playing, is set in a village ruled by powerful psychic artists, who get caught up in a faction fight.
Nakama reprises her role from the first two films and a TV special in 2005. “Playing this part again conjured up my initial feelings of being nervous and confused when I first started out in this business. I’m glad to be back in the unique world of ‘Trick,’” she said.
Nakama, who was born in Okinawa, credits the first “Trick” film in 2000 with making her a star because it led to her being offered the main part in “Gokusen,” a story about the granddaughter of a yakuza boss, who teaches at an all-male private high school. Nakama went on to star in many films and TV dramas, as well as becoming a sought-after personality for TV commercials. In recent years, she has been a regular co-host of NHK’s “Kohaku Utagassen” (Red and White Song Contest) each New Year’s Eve.
No matter where they go, no matter how far they are, they will always be connected by one Trick!
Ueda and Yamada still lives!