Yugo Nakamura

2021 Minority Report Fellow
American Film Institute

THE OFFERING
Logline: A sidelined female detective in Tokyo works with a compromised FBI agent to stop a serial killer with a blood-curdling MO, after an American is found dead in Japan’s infamous suicide forest.

Yugo is a Jewpanese writer from Tokyo, by way of NYC, who currently has a project in development with Amazon. He has also co-written an episode of the Apple+/A24 show, SUNNY, and was selected as a 2021 CAPE New Writers Fellow for his crime thriller pilot. Yugo likes to write about unexpected collisions of worlds, and the characters who live precariously within.