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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 14, 1908
Died
July 5, 1991
Place of Birth
Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Also Known As
- Нобуо Накамура
Nobuo Nakamura
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Nobuo Nakamura (中村伸郎 Nakamura Nobuo, September 14, 1908–July 5, 1991 ) was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953). Nakamura is famous for many notable performances in theatre. In 1937, he founded the Bungakuza company along with Haruko Sugimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, and Masayuki Mori. Nakamura played Polonius in Hamlet, Herod in Wilde's Salome, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov in Chekov's Uncle Vanya, and Krapp in Krapp's Last Tape. He also appeared in Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Cherry Orchard . In the 1950s and 1960s, he played major roles in Yukio Mishima's plays such as Rokumeikan, My Friend Hitler, and so on. In 1963, Nakamura left Bungakuza company and founded the NLT company with Mishima. His most famous and successful role is considered to be The Professor in Ionesco's The Lesson. He performed The Lesson for the first time in 1972 and had played The Professor every Friday night at a small theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo until 1983. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuo Nakamura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
No Life King
1989
0.0
BU・SU
as Customer
1987
5.9
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman
1985
7.8
I Lived, But...
as Self
1983
6.5
The Tale of Saikaido
1983
0.0
Kemono Michi
1982
0.0
The Trading Company
as Mikio Hamashima
1980
10.0
Golden Partners
as Watsuji
1979
0.0
The White Tower
as 東貞蔵
1978
10.0
Lullaby to Kill
as Hôan Tatara
1977
6.4
A Portrait of Shunkin
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
1976
7.3
The Last Song
1975
6.8
Tidal Wave
as Japanese Ambassador
1975
0.0
Submersion of Japan
as Japanese Ambassador
1973
6.8
Internal Sleuth
1973
7.5
The Twilight Years
as Fujieda (attorney at law)
1973
6.0
Cross-Currents
1972
6.0
君は海を見たか
1971
0.0
幻の殺意
1971
0.0
The Militarists
as Koichi Kido
1970
8.0
The Creature Called Man
as Head of N-Bussan
1970
6.0
Sky Scraper!
1969
0.0
Futari no Koibito
1969
0.0
The Night of the Seagull
1968
0.0
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Fujikawa
1968
0.0
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
1968
0.0
Two in the Shadow
1967
7.6
Sodachi zakari
1967
0.0
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
1967
7.2
Thirst for Love
as Father-in-Law
1967
6.8
3 Raccoon Dogs
as Ryūtarō Ōsato
1966
0.0
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita
1966
6.4
That Complicated Guy
1966
0.0
Five Gents on the Spot
as Nobuo Tomioka
1966
0.0
The White Rose of Hong Kong
as Kazumasa Nagahara
1965
0.0
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
1965
6.7
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
10.0
Female
1964
0.0
Dogora
as Doctor Matakata
1964
6.8
The Naked Executive
as Serizawa, executive
1964
0.0
3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964
0.0
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
1963
8.3
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai
1962
7.8
A Night to Remember
1962
6.0
Mount Hakone
1962
0.0
Ai no uzu shio
1962
0.0
Structure of Hate
1961
0.0
Okoto and Sasuke
as Shunsho Kengyo
1961
0.0
City
1961
0.0
The Last War
as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
1961
6.2
The Other Woman
as Kimura
1961
6.3
Blind Devotion
as Wataru Kamogawa
1961
0.0
Late Autumn
as Shuzo Taguchi
1960
7.7
The False Student
as Jiro Takagi
1960
6.5
The Bad Sleep Well
as Legal Adviser
1960
7.7
The Twilight Story
1960
8.0
The Lost Alibi
as Takeda
1960
4.6
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The Rokumeikan
1959
0.0
The Beast Shall Die
as Professor Sugimura
1959
5.6
Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version
as Executive Watanabe
1959
0.0
The Cast-Off
as Kuga
1959
6.0
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
1959
8.1
The Days of Evil Women
1958
0.0
Equinox Flower
as Toshihiko Kawai
1958
7.4
Flower's Yearning
as Hishikawa Kao
1958
0.0
Little Peach
1958
5.9
Advance Patrol
1957
5.5
Secret of Naruto
1957
6.9
The Shadow Daughter
1957
0.0
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Prof. Tanaka
1957
3.0
Tokyo Twilight
as Sakae Aiba
1957
7.7
Night Butterflies
1957
6.3
Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
1957
7.9
Flowing
as Doctor
1956
7.1
Engagement Ring
as Yasuyuki Kawaguchi (Tokio’s father)
1956
0.0
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956
0.0
Punishment Room
1956
6.9
Farewell to Dream
as Seiji's father, Haruo
1956
6.9
Early Spring
as Arakawa
1956
7.5
I Live in Fear
as Psychologist
1955
7.3
The Romance of Yushima
1955
6.0
Beast Man Snow Man
as Professor Koizumi
1955
4.5
Yukiko
1955
0.0
Tomoshibi
1954
0.0
Itsuko to sono haha
as Nomura, Chairman
1954
0.0
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
6.1
Tokyo Story
as Kurazo Kaneko
1953
8.2
The Blue Revolution
1953
0.0
Sunflower Girl
1953
0.0
Ikiru
as Deputy Mayor
1952
8.3
Doctor's Day Off
1952
6.0
Freedom School
1951
0.0
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
6.0