Yuri Nakamura is dead. She was 44. The performer of Japanese-Korean descent had cancer. Per reports it was rectal cancer. She chose to keep the illness private. Nakamura starred in "Romantics Anonymous" and "Pacchigi! Love & Peace." Following her passing, people revisited a seven-year-old ad. In the ad, she played a mother with cancer. At that time, she had already been treated for the condition. That detail is attracting fresh attention. Her screen work is remembered.