Nobuo Nakamura
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.
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Movies (47)
No Life King
1989
BU・SU
as Customer
1987
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman
1985
I Lived, But...
as Self
1983
The Tale of Saikaido
1983
Golden Partners
as Watsuji
1979
Lullaby to Kill
as Hôan Tatara
1977
A Portrait of Shunkin
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
1976
The Last Song
1975
Tidal Wave
as Japanese Ambassador
1975
Submersion of Japan
as Japanese Ambassador
1973
Internal Sleuth
1973
The Twilight Years
as Fujieda (attorney at law)
1973
Cross-Currents
1972
君は海を見たか
1971
幻の殺意
1971
The Militarists
as Koichi Kido
1970
The Creature Called Man
as Head of N-Bussan
1970
Sky Scraper!
1969
Futari no Koibito
1969
The Night of the Seagull
1968
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Fujikawa
1968
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
1968
Two in the Shadow
1967
Sodachi zakari
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
1967
Thirst for Love
as Father-in-Law
1967
3 Raccoon Dogs
as Ryūtarō Ōsato
1966
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita
1966
That Complicated Guy
1966
Five Gents on the Spot
as Nobuo Tomioka
1966
The White Rose of Hong Kong
as Kazumasa Nagahara
1965
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Female
1964
Dogora
as Doctor Matakata
1964
The Naked Executive
as Serizawa, executive
1964
3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
1963
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai
1962
A Night to Remember
1962
Mount Hakone
1962
Ai no uzu shio
1962
Structure of Hate
1961
Okoto and Sasuke
as Shunsho Kengyo
1961
City
1961
The Last War
as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
1961
