Nobuo Nakamura
Acting
Born 1908-09-14
Died 1991-07-05
Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
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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.
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Ikiru
An Inlet of Muddy Water
High and Low
NET Playhouse
Tokyo Story
Throne of Blood
Tampopo
Frankenstein Conquers the World
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The White Tower
The Bad Sleep Well
An Autumn Afternoon
Dogora
The War of the Gargantuas
The Days of Evil Women
Maboroshi no Satsui
Tokyo Twilight
Blind Devotion
Golden Partners
Equinox Flower
Late Autumn
Sky Scraper!
Japan's Longest Day
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Early Spring
Submersion of Japan
I Live in Fear
Just Barely
Beast Man Snow Man
The Last War
Gendai no yokubô
BU・SU
Flowing
The Militarists
Two in the Shadow
A Night to Remember
The Blue Revolution
The Beast Shall Die
Little Peach
Lullaby to Kill
Secret of Naruto
Thirst for Love
The Trading Company
Tidal Wave
The False Student
Engagement Ring
Punishment Room
Mount Hakone
The Last Song
Kemono Michi
The Legendary Hell
Yukiko
Night Butterflies
A Portrait of Shunkin
The Creature Called Man
Female
Cross-Currents
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
The Twilight Story
Internal Sleuth
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