Nobuo Nakamura
Known For
Acting
Born
1908-09-14 in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Died
1991-07-05
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.
Most Known For
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
Ikiru
as Deputy Mayor
Tokyo Story
as Kurazo Kaneko
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
The White Tower
as 東貞蔵
The Bad Sleep Well
as Legal Adviser
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai
Late Autumn
as Shuzo Taguchi
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita
Early Spring
as Arakawa
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
The Trading Company
as Mikio Hamashima
The Militarists
as Koichi Kido
Equinox Flower
as Toshihiko Kawai
Submersion of Japan
as Japanese Ambassador
I Live in Fear
as Psychologist
Tokyo Twilight
as Sakae Aiba