Nobuo Nakamura

Known for ActingBorn 1908-09-14Died 1991-07-05Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Trading Company

The White Tower

Sodachi zakari

3 Gents in the Snow Country

Sunflower Girl

No Life King

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

The Radish and the Carrot

The Naked Executive

Blind Devotion

Will-o'-the-Wisp

The Twilight Story

High and Low

Ikiru

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Tokyo Story

Tampopo

Okoto and Sasuke

The Cast-Off

The Shadow Daughter

The Romance of Yushima

Itsuko to sono haha

The Blue Revolution

An Autumn Afternoon

A Portrait of Shunkin

Throne of Blood

Two in the Shadow

The Bad Sleep Well

Late Autumn

Tokyo Twilight

Internal Sleuth

The Twilight Years

The Creature Called Man

The Militarists

The Last Song

A Night to Remember

Early Spring

Equinox Flower

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

NET Playhouse

Japan's Longest Day

I Live in Fear

Golden Partners

Flowing

Submersion of Japan

Futari no Koibito

Sky Scraper!

The Night of the Seagull