Nobuo Nakamura

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Age

117

Movies

Born: September 14, 1908 – July 5, 1991
From: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

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.

Works

97 films

An Inlet of Muddy Water

19536.3

Ikiru

19528.3

High and Low

19638.4

Frankenstein Conquers the World

19656.8

Tokyo Story

19538.1

Throne of Blood

19577.9

Tampopo

19857.8

An Autumn Afternoon

19627.9

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

19598.1

Blind Devotion

19619.0

The War of the Gargantuas

19666.3

The Bad Sleep Well

19607.7

Golden Partners

19797.0

The Days of Evil Women

19587.0

Dogora

19646.8

Maboroshi no Satsui

1971

Japan's Longest Day

19677.3

Sky Scraper!

19697.0

Late Autumn

19607.7

Tokyo Twilight

19577.7

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

19573.5

Equinox Flower

19587.4

Early Spring

19567.5

Submersion of Japan

19737.0

I Live in Fear

19557.3

Two in the Shadow

19677.8

The Last War

19616.8

The Beast Shall Die

19596.2

BU・SU

19876.2

Gendai no yokubô

1956

Mount Hakone

19627.0

Just Barely

1960

Tidal Wave

1975

Flowing

19567.2

Thirst for Love

19677.0

Little Peach

19586.1

The Militarists

19707.5

The Blue Revolution

19538.0

Lullaby to Kill

19776.6

Punishment Room

19566.9

Female

1964

Engagement Ring

1956

The Lost Alibi

19605.0

Beast Man Snow Man

19554.9

Internal Sleuth

19737.5

One Night of Love

1954

The Lady Was Pawn

1956

Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made

1955

The Night of the Seagull

19687.0

The Legendary Hell

1960

The Creature Called Man

19707.5

A Night to Remember

19627.5

A Portrait of Shunkin

19767.8

The Other Woman

19616.3

Night Butterflies

19576.5

Advance Patrol

19576.0

The Cast-Off

19598.0

I Lived, But...

19836.8

Yukiko

1955

City

19617.0

The Last Song

19757.4

The False Student

19606.7

Secret of Naruto

19577.0

Vagabond Employee: Revenge

1959

Okoto and Sasuke

19618.0

No Life King

19899.0

The White Rose of Hong Kong

19657.0

The Twilight Years

19737.5

The Romance of Yushima

19558.0

Cross-Currents

19726.3

The Twilight Story

19608.5

Structure of Hate

19617.0

The Naked Executive

19649.0

Tomoshibi

19547.0

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

19687.0

The Shadow Daughter

19578.0

The Radish and the Carrot

19659.0

The Tale of Saikaido

1983

Futari no Koibito

19697.0

Whirlpool of Love

1962

Itsuko to sono haha

19548.0

Sunflower Girl

195310.0

Farewell to Dream

19567.1

Five Gents on the Spot

19667.0

Freedom School

19517.0

That Complicated Guy

1966

Will-o'-the-Wisp

19569.0

Doctor's Day Off

19526.8

3 Raccoon Dogs

19665.0

Young Guy in Rio

19686.0

Flower's Yearning

19587.0

君は海を見たか

1971

Sodachi zakari

196710.0

3 Gents in the Snow Country

196410.0

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

19467.5

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

19689.0

The Rokumeikan

1959