Nobuo Nakamura
Age: 82 | From: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Person Details
Birthday: 1908-09-14 16:53:36
Death: 1991-07-05 16:53:36
Aliases: 中村伸郎
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 36
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Ikiru
(1952) Deputy Mayor
Tokyo Story
(1953) Kurazo Kaneko
Throne of Blood
(1957) Phantom samurai
High and Low
(1963) Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Frankenstein Conquers the World
(1965) Skeptical Museum Chief
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960) Legal Adviser
The War of the Gargantuas
(1966) Dr. Kita
Tokyo Twilight
(1957) Sakae AibaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1987 | Customer | |
| 1985 | Old Gentleman | |
| 1983 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1980 | Mikio Hamashima | |
| 1979 | Watsuji | |
| 1978 | 東貞蔵 | |
| 1977 | Hôan Tatara | |
| 1976 | Harumatsu(春松検校) | |
| 1975 | N/A | |
| 1973 | Japanese Ambassador | |
| N/A | ||
| Fujieda (attorney at law) | ||
| 1972 | N/A | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
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| 1970 | Koichi Kido | |
| Head of N-Bussan | ||
| 1969 | N/A | |
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| 1968 | N/A | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
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| Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido | ||
| Father-in-Law | ||
| 1966 | Dr. Kita | |
| 1965 | Skeptical Museum Chief (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | N/A | |
| Doctor Matakata | ||
| Serizawa, executive | ||
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| 1963 | Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director | |
| 1962 | Shuzo Kawai | |
| N/A | ||
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| 1961 | Shunsho Kengyo | |
| N/A | ||
| Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa | ||
| Kimura | ||
| Wataru Kamogawa | ||
| 1960 | Shuzo Taguchi | |
| Jiro Takagi | ||
| Legal Adviser | ||
| N/A | ||
| Takeda | ||
| 1959 | Professor Sugimura | |
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| Honsha Buchô | ||
| 1958 | Prof. Tanaka | |
| N/A | ||
| Toshihiko Kawai | ||
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| 1957 | N/A | |
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| Sakae Aiba | ||
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| Phantom samurai | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
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| Seiji's father, Haruo | ||
| Arakawa | ||
| 1955 | Psychologist | |
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| Professor Koizumi | ||
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| 1954 | N/A | |
| Nomura, Chairman | ||
| 1953 | N/A | |
| Kurazo Kaneko | ||
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| 1952 | Deputy Mayor | |
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| 1946 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
