Nobuo Nakamura

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-09-14 (83 years old)

Deathday

1991-07-05

Place of Birth

Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

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...

Acting

1952

Ikiru

as Deputy Mayor

1960

Late Autumn

as Shuzo Taguchi

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Legal Adviser

1985

Tampopo

as Old Gentleman

1963

High and Low

as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

1964

Dogora

as Doctor Matakata

1953

Tokyo Story

as Kurazo Kaneko

1964

1957

Tokyo Twilight

as Sakae Aiba

1964

The Naked Executive

as Serizawa, executive

1967

Thirst for Love

as Father-in-Law

1961

The Last War

as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa

1977

Lullaby to Kill

as Hôan Tatara

1976

A Portrait of Shunkin

as Harumatsu(春松検校)

1955

Half Human

as Professor Koizumi

1970

The Creature Called Man

as Head of N-Bussan

1970

The Militarists

as Koichi Kido

1955

1987

BU・SU

as Customer

1955

I Live in Fear

as Psychologist

1957

Throne of Blood

as Phantom samurai

1956

Flowing

as Doctor

1961

1960

1958

Equinox Flower

as Toshihiko Kawai

1961

Okoto and Sasuke

as Shunsho Kengyo

1961

Blind Devotion

as Wataru Kamogawa

1983

1973

The Twilight Years

as Fujieda (attorney at law)

1960

The False Student

as Jiro Takagi

1959

The Beast Shall Die

as Professor Sugimura

1956

Farewell to Dream

as Seiji's father, Haruo

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Shuzo Kawai

1966

The War of the Gargantuas

as Professor Kita

1979

Golden Partners

as Watsuji

1973

Submersion of Japan

as Japanese Ambassador

1954

Itsuko to sono haha

as Nomura, Chairman

1956

Early Spring

as Arakawa

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

1961

1975

Tidal Wave

as Japanese Ambassador

1965

The White Rose of Hong Kong

as Kazumasa Nagahara

1966

Five Gents on the Spot

as Nobuo Tomioka

1968

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)

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