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Nobuo Nakamura
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Occupation
Actor
Died
July 5, 1991
Role
Actor
Name
Nobuo Nakamura
Years active
1932–1991
Born
September 14, 1908 (
1908-09-14
)
Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Children
Mariko Nakamura, Minako Ide
Movies
Tokyo Story, Late Autumn, An Autumn Afternoon, To Live, The War of the Gargantuas
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 Yasujirō Ozu in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West 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 was also famous for many notable contributions to Japanese modern 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 played The Professor every Friday night at Shibuya Jean-Jean, a small theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo until 1983. Appropriately, one of his last movie roles was a cameo as a deceptively decrepit-looking "professor" in Juzo Itami's film comedy Tampopo (1985).
Honours
Medal with Purple Ribbon (1976)
Filmography
Actor
1989
No raifu kingu
1987
Bu su as
Customer
1985
Tampopo as
Intended victim of con man
1982
Shin jiken: Doctor stop (TV Series) as
Judge Tani
- Episode #1.5 (1982) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.2 (1982) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.1 (1982) - Judge Tani
1982
Shin Tôkyô monogatari (TV Series)
1982
Kemonomichi (TV Series) as
Sawasugi
- Episode #1.3 (1982) - Sawasugi
1981
Shin jiken: Waga uta wa hana ichimonme (TV Series) as
Judge Tani
- Episode #1.5 (1981) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.4 (1981) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.3 (1981) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.2 (1981) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.1 (1981) - Judge Tani
1980
Zoku zoku jiken: Tsuki no keshiki (TV Series) as
Judge Tani
- Episode #1.4 (1980) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.3 (1980) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.2 (1980) - Judge Tani
- Episode #1.1 (1980) - Judge Tani
1979
Kaze no hayato (TV Series)
1979
Zoku jiken (TV Series)
1978
Shitamachi no onna Fûko (TV Series)
1977
Akuma no temari-uta as
Hôan Tatara
1976
Shunkinsho as
Harumatsu
1975
The Last Song
1975
Genroku taiheiki (TV Series)
1974
The Family as
Matsudaira
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub (TV Series)
- Osue mujô (1973)
1973
Submersion of Japan as
Japanese Ambassador to Australia
1973
Fuyô no Hito (TV Mini Series)
1973
Kôkotsu no hito as
Fujieda, lawyer
1972
Kuro no honryu as
Daizo Kitagawa
1971
Maboroshi no satsui
1970
Daikon no hana (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1970)
1970
The Militarists as
Koichi (uncredited)
1970
The Creature Called Man as
Head of N-Bussan
1969
Futari no koibito as
Ryôhei Kôno
1968
Suna no kaori as
Chief Judge
1968
Rio no wakadaishô
1968
Zoku shacho hanjôki
1968
Shachô hanjôki
1967
Scattered Clouds
1967
Sodachi zakari as
Shingo Nakayu
1967
Tôkyô monogatari (TV Mini Series)
1967
Japan's Longest Day as
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
1967
NET Playhouse (TV Series) as
Dr. Baba
- Past Intruding (1967) - Dr. Baba
1966
The War of the Gargantuas as
Dr. Kita
1966
Thirst for Love as
Yakichi Sugimoto
1966
Fukuzatsu na kare
1966
Five Gents on the Spot
1965
Honkon no shiroibara as
Nagahara
1965
Frankenstein vs. Baragon as
Skeptical Museum Chief
1965
Radishes and Carrots
1964
Female as
Eitaro Shudo
1964
Dogora as
Dr. Munakata
1964
Hadaka no jûyaku as
Serizawa, executive
1964
Geisha gakkô
1964
Zoku shachô shinshiroku
1963
High and Low as
Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
1962
An Autumn Afternoon as
Shuzo Kawai
1962
A Night to Remember as
Taneda
1961
Okoto to Sasuke
1961
Onna no tsurihashi as
Shinkichi Haurno (Episode 2)
1961
Kuroi gashû dainibu: Kanryû as
Konishi
1961
Machi as
Public prosecutor
1961
Sekai daisensô as
Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
1961
Poignant Story as
Kimura
1961
Tôkyô yawa as
Kyosuke Kamiko
1961
Midaregami as
Wataru Kamogawa
1961
Hakai (TV Movie)
1960
Oden jigoku as
Masabumi Gotô
1960
Late Autumn as
Shuzo Taguchi
1960
A False Student as
Takagi
1960
The Bad Sleep Well as
Legal Adviser
1960
The Twilight Story as
Sanji
1960
The Lost Alibi as
Takeda
1959
Kaoyaku to bakudan musume as
Kôda
1959
This Is the Truth (TV Series)
1959
Anyakôro as
Kensaku's father
1959
Yajû shisubeshi as
Professor Sugimura
1959
Hanran as
Kuga
1959
Onna gokoro as
Tsujinoto
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as
Honsha Buchô
1958
Half Human as
Prof. Tanaka (uncredited)
1958
Haru kôrô no hana no en as
Shuntarô Tanaka
1958
Akujo no kisetsu as
Dr. Mizutani
1958
Equinox Flower as
Toshihiko Kawai
1958
Hana no bojô as
Kaô Hishikawa
1958
Little Peach
1958
The Rickshaw Man as
Yoshiko's brother
1957
Nichiro senso shori no hishi: Tekichu odan sanbyaku-ri
1957
Sono yoru no himegoto as
Ryusaku Endo
1957
Night Butterflies as
Customer
1957
Hikage no musume
1957
Tokyo Twilight as
Sakae Aiba
1957
Throne of Blood as
Phantom samurai
1956
Sparks as
Takayama
1956
Flowing
1956
Konyaku yubiwa-engeeji ringu
1956
Onibi
1956
Punishment Room as
Professor
1956
Gendai no yokubô as
Takamatsu
1956
White Devilfish
1956
Farewell to Dream as
Seiji's father, Haruo
1956
Early Spring as
Arakawa, chief executive
1955
I Live in Fear as
Psychologist
1955
Shichinin no ani imôto as
Yukichi Kitahara
1955
Jû jin yuki otoko as
Professor Koizumi
1955
Musume no endan
1955
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1954
Tomoshibi as
Keizo Kawamura
1954
Itsuko to sono haha as
Nomura, Chairman
1954
Koyoi hito yo o
1953
Nigorie as
Yasubee (Story 2)
1953
Tokyo Story as
Kurazo Kaneko
1953
Senkan Yamato
1953
The Blue Revolution as
Professor Hisamatsu
1953
Zoku Jûdai no seiten as
Tateuo Ueda
1952
Ikiru as
Deputy Mayor
1952
Adventure in Tokyo as
Take-san
1951
Jiyû gakkô
1946
The Descendants of Taro Urashima
1942
Haha no chizu as
Hideo
1938
Hanataba no yume
Self
1983
I Lived, But... (Documentary) as
Self
Archive Footage
2010
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (TV Series documentary) as