Nobuo Nakamura
Acting
- Born:
- 1908-09-14
- Died:
- 1991-07-05
- Place of birth:
- Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
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.
Known For
Filmography
No Life King
BU・SU
Tampopo
I Lived, But...
The Tale of Saikaido
Kemono Michi
The Trading Company
Golden Partners
The White Tower
Lullaby to Kill
A Portrait of Shunkin
The Last Song
Tidal Wave
Submersion of Japan
Internal Sleuth
The Twilight Years
Cross-Currents
君は海を見たか
Maboroshi no Satsui
The Militarists
The Creature Called Man
Sky Scraper!
Futari no Koibito
The Night of the Seagull
Young Guy in Rio
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Two in the Shadow
Sodachi zakari
Japan's Longest Day
Thirst for Love
NET Playhouse
3 Raccoon Dogs
The War of the Gargantuas
That Complicated Guy
Five Gents on the Spot
The White Rose of Hong Kong
Frankenstein Conquers the World
You Can If You Try
The Radish and the Carrot
Female
Dogora
The Naked Executive
3 Gents in the Snow Country
High and Low
An Autumn Afternoon
A Night to Remember
Mount Hakone
Whirlpool of Love
Structure of Hate
Okoto and Sasuke
City
The Last War
The Other Woman
Blind Devotion
The Legendary Hell
Late Autumn
The False Student
The Bad Sleep Well
The Twilight Story
Just Barely
The Lost Alibi
Leader of the Bomb Girls
Pilgrimage at Night
The Rokumeikan
The Beast Shall Die
Vagabond Employee: Revenge
The Cast-Off
A Woman's Heart
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Days of Evil Women
Equinox Flower
Flower's Yearning
Little Peach
Symphony of Love
Advance Patrol
Secret of Naruto
Night Butterflies
The Shadow Daughter
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Tokyo Twilight
Throne of Blood
Flowing
Engagement Ring
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Punishment Room
Gendai no yokubô
The Lady Was Pawn
Spark
Farewell to Dream
Early Spring
I Live in Fear
The Romance of Yushima
Beast Man Snow Man
Yukiko
Hahabue kobue
Inhibited Love
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
Tomoshibi
Itsuko to sono haha
One Night of Love
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Tokyo Story
The Blue Revolution
Sunflower Girl
Ikiru
Doctor's Day Off
Freedom School
A Descendant of Urashima Taro