Nobuo Nakamura
Acting
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.
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Age 54 (now 82)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
Age 50 (now 82)
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
Age 56 (now 82)
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Fujikawa
Age 59 (now 82)
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
Age 59 (now 82)
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
Age 58 (now 82)
The White Rose of Hong Kong
as Kazumasa Nagahara
Age 56 (now 82) Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
Age 56 (now 82)
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Age 54 (now 82)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
Age 50 (now 82)
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Prof. Tanaka
Age 48 (now 82)
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Also Known As
Нобуо Накамура
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