Nobuo Nakamura

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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High and Low

Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

Ikiru

Deputy Mayor

Tokyo Story

Kurazo Kaneko

Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version

Executive Watanabe

Tampopo

Old Gentleman

The Shadow Daughter

Throne of Blood

Phantom samurai

Tokyo Twilight

Sakae Aiba

Equinox Flower

Toshihiko Kawai

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Honsha Buchô

Female

Submersion of Japan

Japanese Ambassador

君は海を見たか

The Night of the Seagull

Farewell to Dream

Seiji's father, Haruo

No Life King

Okoto and Sasuke

Shunsho Kengyo

Structure of Hate

Japan's Longest Day

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

Punishment Room

Five Gents on the Spot

Nobuo Tomioka

Blind Devotion

Wataru Kamogawa

Late Autumn

Shuzo Taguchi

3 Raccoon Dogs

Ryūtarō Ōsato

City

The Bad Sleep Well

Legal Adviser

Frankenstein Conquers the World

Dr. Suga

Itsuko to sono haha

Nomura, Chairman

Futari no Koibito

The False Student

Jiro Takagi

Two in the Shadow

Lullaby to Kill

Hôan Tatara

Ai no uzu shio

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

Golden Partners

Watsuji

A Night to Remember

A Portrait of Shunkin

Harumatsu(春松検校)

Dogora

Doctor Matakata

The Days of Evil Women

Doctor's Day Off

An Inlet of Muddy Water

The Last Song

The Beast Shall Die

Professor Sugimura

The Other Woman

Kimura

Early Spring

Arakawa

Tomoshibi

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Mount Hakone

幻の殺意

Freedom School

The Twilight Years

Fujieda (attorney at law)

Sodachi zakari

The Tale of Saikaido

That Complicated Guy

The Lost Alibi

Takeda

Thirst for Love

Father-in-Law

Secret of Naruto

Beast Man Snow Man

Professor Koizumi

The Blue Revolution

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)

Sky Scraper!

Flowing

Doctor

The Cast-Off

Kuga

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

Fujikawa

The Rokumeikan

The Creature Called Man

Head of N-Bussan

The Romance of Yushima

I Lived, But...

Self

The White Rose of Hong Kong

Kazumasa Nagahara

Little Peach

The Naked Executive

Serizawa, executive

I Live in Fear

Psychologist

Sunflower Girl

The Radish and the Carrot

Yukiko

Internal Sleuth

The Twilight Story

3 Gents in the Snow Country

The Last War

Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa

Night Butterflies

Cross-Currents

The Militarists

Koichi Kido

Advance Patrol

Tidal Wave