Acting
Nobuo Nakamura
JA, EN cinema · 106 credits
Born
14 September 1908
Died
5 July 1991 (aged 82)
Birthplace
Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Also known as Нобуо Накамура
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
Filmography
BU・SU
as Customer
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman
I Lived, But...
as Self
Golden Partners
as Watsuji
Lullaby to Kill
as Hôan Tatara
A Portrait of Shunkin
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
Tidal Wave
as Japanese Ambassador
The Twilight Years
as Fujieda (attorney at law)
Submersion of Japan
as Japanese Ambassador
The Creature Called Man
as Head of N-Bussan
The Militarists
as Koichi Kido
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
Thirst for Love
as Father-in-Law
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita
That Complicated Guy
as Kensaku Suga
Five Gents on the Spot
as Nobuo Tomioka
3 Raccoon Dogs
as Ryūtarō Ōsato
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
The White Rose of Hong Kong
as Kazumasa Nagahara
Dogora
as Doctor Matakata
The Naked Executive
as Serizawa, executive
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai
The Last War
as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
The Other Woman
as Kimura
Okoto and Sasuke
as Shunsho Kengyo
Blind Devotion
as Wataru Kamogawa
City
Actor
Late Autumn
as Shuzo Taguchi
The Bad Sleep Well
as Legal Adviser
The Lost Alibi
as Takeda
The False Student
as Jiro Takagi
The Legendary Hell
as Masabumi Gotō
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
The Cast-Off
as Kuga
The Beast Shall Die
as Professor Sugimura
Vagabond Employee: Revenge
as Executive Watanabe
Equinox Flower
as Toshihiko Kawai
Flower's Yearning
as Hishikawa Kao
Tokyo Twilight
as Sakae Aiba
Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Prof. Tanaka
The Shadow Daughter
as Yamagishi
Flowing
as Doctor
Farewell to Dream
as Seiji's father, Haruo
Early Spring
as Arakawa
Engagement Ring
as Yasuyuki Kawaguchi (Tokio’s father)
Beast Man Snow Man
as Professor Koizumi
I Live in Fear
as Psychologist
Itsuko to sono haha
as Nomura, Chairman
One Night of Love
as Koizumi
Tokyo Story
as Kurazo Kaneko
Ikiru
as Deputy Mayor
