Tatsuya Nakadai

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-12-13 (93 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Nakadai

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Tatsuya Nakadai (仲代 達矢 Nakadai Tatsuya, born Motohisa Nakadai December 13, 1932) is a Japanese leading film actor. He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s. He became the favorite leading man of internationally-acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa after a well publicized fallout between Kurosawa and the legendary Toshirō Mifune. Beginning in the late 1950s, he worked with a number of Japan's best-known filmmakers, starring or co-starring in five Kurosawa films, along with significant films made by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Th...

Acting

1965

Kwaidan

as Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

1962

Sanjuro

as Hanbei Muroto

1985

Ran

as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji

1980

Kagemusha

as Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha

1961

Yojimbo

as Unosuke, gunfighter

1987

Hachiko

as Shujiro Ueno

1967

Samurai Rebellion

as Tatewaki Asano

1963

High and Low

as Chief Detective Tokura

1971

The Wolves

as Seji Iwahashi

1962

Harakiri

as Hanshiro Tsugumo

1966

The Face of Another

as Mr. Okuyama

1960

1969

Tenchu!

as Hanpei Takechi

1959

Odd Obsession

as Kimura

1979

Hunter in the Dark

as Gomyo Kiyoemon

1968

Kill!

as Genta

2005

Wish Upon a Star

as Takanori Wakamiya

1969

Goyokin

as Magobei Wakizaka

1965

Illusion of Blood

as Iyemon Tamiya

1983

Final Yamato

as Narrator

1992

Wicked City

as Daishu

1966

The Sword of Doom

as Ryunosuke Tsukue

1969

Portrait of Hell

as Yoshihide

1960

2000

Kurosawa

as Self

1989

1958

1978

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

as Kumokiri Nizaemon

1957

Ôban

as Shin Don

1957

1958

Conflagration

as Tokari

1971

Inn of Evil

as Sadashichi

1957

2010

Haru's Journey

as Tadao Nakai

1969

Blood End

as Sentaro

1968

The Human Bullet

as Narrator

1982

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

as Masagoro Kiryuin - Onimasa

1961

Immortal Love

as Heibei

1969

Battle of the Japan Sea

as Major Genjiro Akashi

2003

Like Asura

as Kotaro Takezawa

2012

Japan's Tragedy

as Fujio Murai

1995

East Meets West

as Kaishu Katsu

1991

Heat Wave

as Tsunejiro Murai

1975

I Am a Cat

as Kushami

1971

The Battle of Okinawa

as Colonel Hiromichi Yahara

1962

The Inheritance

as Kikuo Furukawa

1975

Battle Cry

as Hijikata Toshizo

1967

The Age of Assassins

as Shinji Kikyo

1970

Duel at Fort Ezo

as Daizennokami Honjo

1962

Love Under the Crucifix

as Ukon Takayama

2002

Vengeance for Sale

as Umetaro Katakura

2000

After the Rain

as Tsuji Gettan

2012

Until the Break of Dawn

as Sadayuki Akiyama

2015

2006

1958

1984

Fireflies in the North

as Takeshi Tsukigata

1985

The Empty Table

as Nobuyuki Kidoji

2002

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)

2014

Giovanni's Island

as Older Junpei Senou (voice)

2009

Listen to My Heart

as Kyozo Hayami

1957

Untamed Woman

as Kimura

1992

1973

Belladonna of Sadness

as The Devil (voice)

1954

Seven Samurai

as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)

1985

1974

The Family

as Teppei Manpyo

1965

1978

Queen Bee

as Ginzo Daidoji

2012

Gaku

as Kazama Shin-ichi

1980

Port Arthur

as Maresuke Nogi

1978

1970

The Ambitious

as Shintaro Nakaoka

1966

2013

The Human Trust

as Nobuhiro Sasakura

1978

The Phoenix

as Jingi the Conqueror, leader of the Takamagahara

1975

Solar Eclipse

as Yasuo Hoshino, the Chief Cabinet Secretary

1985

A. K.

as Self

2009

Through the Mist

as (Archive Footage)

1961

1999

Jubaku: Spellbound

as Hideaki Sasaki

1956

1986

Atami Murder Case

as Denbei Nikaido

2017

Lear on the Shore

as Kuwahata Chokichi

1988

Oración

as Heihachiro Wagu

1967

Kojiro

as Musashi Miyamoto

2013

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

as Charcoal-maker Old Man (voice)

1959

The Beast Shall Die

as Kunihiko Date

1960

Get 'em All

as Tsubota

1968

Admiral Yamamoto

as Narrator (voice)

1987

Taikoki

as (Narrator)

2015

Before The Leaves Fall

as Kenichiro Miya

1963

Legacy of the 500,000

as Mitsura Gunji

2010

1981

Willful Murder

as Yashiro

1992

Faraway Sunset

as Kobayashi

1958

All About Marriage

as Akira Nakayama

1986

Michi

as Seiji Tajima

2002

To Dance with the White Dog

as Eisuke Nakamoto

1956

Sazae-san

as Norisuke

2005

1977

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Narrator (voice)

2019

Sleeping Village

as (narration)

1956

The Thick-Walled Room

as (uncredited)

1958

1967

1957

Skin-Colored Moon

as Jirô Taki

1958

Go and Get It

as His assistant

1958

Kampai! Miai Kekkon

as Kunihiko Sasada

1959

Three Dolls in Ginza

as Kyosuke Tamura

1963

Miren

as Ryôta Kinoshita

1963

Yushu Heiya

as Tatsumi

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