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.
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Filmography
all 81
Movies 77
TV Shows 4
self 1
Director 1
No Life King (1989)
BU・SU (1987)
Tampopo (1985)
I Lived, But... (1983)
The Tale of Saikaido (1983)
Kemono Michi (1982)
The Trading Company (1980)
Zoku zoku jiken (1980)
Golden Partners (1979)
The White Tower (1978)
Lullaby to Kill (1977)
A Portrait of Shunkin (1976)
The Last Song (1975)
Submersion of Japan (1973)
Internal Sleuth (1973)
The Twilight Years (1973)
Cross-Currents (1972)
君は海を見たか (1971)
幻の殺意 (1971)
The Militarists (1970)
The Creature Called Man (1970)
Sky Scraper! (1969)
Futari no Koibito (1969)
The Night of the Seagull (1968)
Two in the Shadow (1967)
Sodachi zakari (1967)
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Thirst for Love (1967)
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
The Radish and the Carrot (1965)
Female (1964)
Dogora (1964)
The Naked Executive (1964)
Zoku shachō shinshiroku (1964)
High and Low (1963)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Hiroshima Heartache (1962)
Mount Hakone (1962)
Ai no uzu shio (1962)
Okoto and Sasuke (1961)
City (1961)
The Last War (1961)
The Other Woman (1961)
Blind Devotion (1961)
Late Autumn (1960)
The False Student (1960)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
The Twilight Story (1960)
The Lost Alibi (1960)
The Beast Shall Die (1959)
The Cast-Off (1959)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)
The Days of Evil Women (1958)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Little Peach (1958)
Advance Patrol (1957)
Secret of Naruto (1957)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Night Butterflies (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Flowing (1956)
Will-o'-the-Wisp (1956)
Punishment Room (1956)
Farewell to Dream (1956)
Early Spring (1956)
I Live in Fear (1955)
The Romance of Yushima (1955)
Half Human (1955)
Yukiko (1955)
Tomoshibi (1954)
Itsuko to sono haha (1954)
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
The Blue Revolution (1953)
Sunflower Girl (1953)
Ikiru (1952)
Doctor's Day Off (1952)
Freedom School (1951)
A Descendant of Urashima Taro (1946)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1908-09-14
Deathday1991-07-05 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceOtaru, Japan
ChildrenMinako Ide, Mariko Nakamura
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As中村伸郎, Нобуо Накамура
AwardsMedal with Purple Ribbon
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