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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Known for
The White Tower
東貞蔵
Ikiru
Deputy Mayor
Tokyo Story
Kurazo Kaneko
High and Low
Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuzo Kawai
Throne of Blood
Phantom samurai
Tampopo
Old Gentleman
Tokyo Twilight
Sakae Aiba
Equinox Flower
Toshihiko Kawai
Early Spring
Arakawa
The War of the Gargantuas
Professor Kita
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Honsha Buchô
Japan's Longest Day
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
Late Autumn
Shuzo Taguchi
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Dr. Suga
I Live in Fear
Psychologist
The Bad Sleep Well
Legal Adviser
The Trading Company
Mikio Hamashima
Kemono Michi
Flowing
Doctor
Dogora
Doctor Matakata
Submersion of Japan
Japanese Ambassador
Lullaby to Kill
Hôan Tatara
An Inlet of Muddy Water
The Last War
Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
Two in the Shadow
The Other Woman
Kimura
Thirst for Love
Father-in-Law
A Portrait of Shunkin
Harumatsu(春松検校)
Secret of Naruto
The Militarists
Koichi Kido
Half Human
Professor Koizumi
Little Peach
BU・SU
Customer
The Twilight Years
Fujieda (attorney at law)
The Last Song
Punishment Room
The Twilight Story
Tidal Wave
Japanese Ambassador
Internal Sleuth
Farewell to Dream
Seiji's father, Haruo
Sunflower Girl
Freedom School
The False Student
Jiro Takagi
Cross-Currents
Five Gents on the Spot
Nobuo Tomioka
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Prof. Tanaka
Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Beast Shall Die
Professor Sugimura
The Radish and the Carrot
The Naked Executive
Serizawa, executive
The Rokumeikan
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
The Tale of Saikaido
Futari no Koibito
Night Butterflies
Advance Patrol
The Creature Called Man
Head of N-Bussan
The Night of the Seagull
Blind Devotion
Wataru Kamogawa
Itsuko to sono haha
Nomura, Chairman
Yukiko
The Cast-Off
The Lost Alibi
Takeda
The Shadow Daughter
The Romance of Yushima
Doctor's Day Off
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Fujikawa
The White Rose of Hong Kong
Kazumasa Nagahara
No Life King
3 Gents in the Snow Country
City
Female
Structure of Hate
That Complicated Guy
A Night to Remember
I Lived, But...
Self
Tomoshibi
Ai no uzu shio
Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version
Executive Watanabe
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
君は海を見たか
Sky Scraper!
Okoto and Sasuke
Shunsho Kengyo
Sodachi zakari
Mount Hakone
The Days of Evil Women
幻の殺意
Golden Partners
Watsuji