Nobuo Nakamura
Acting
1908-09-14 · Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
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.
Filmography
No Life King
1989 · Movie
BU・SU
1987 · Movie
Tampopo
1985 · Movie
I Lived, But...
1983 · Movie
The Tale of Saikaido
1983 · Movie
Kemono Michi
1982 · Series
The Trading Company
1980 · Series
Golden Partners
1979 · Movie
The White Tower
1978 · Series
Lullaby to Kill
1977 · Movie
A Portrait of Shunkin
1976 · Movie
The Last Song
1975 · Movie
Tidal Wave
1975 · Movie
Submersion of Japan
1973 · Movie
Internal Sleuth
1973 · Movie
The Twilight Years
1973 · Movie
Cross-Currents
1972 · Movie
君は海を見たか
1971 · Movie
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971 · Movie
The Militarists
1970 · Movie
The Creature Called Man
1970 · Movie
Sky Scraper!
1969 · Movie
Futari no Koibito
1969 · Movie
The Night of the Seagull
1968 · Movie
Young Guy in Rio
1968 · Movie
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
1968 · Movie
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
1968 · Movie
Two in the Shadow
1967 · Movie
Sodachi zakari
1967 · Movie
Japan's Longest Day
1967 · Movie
Thirst for Love
1967 · Movie
NET Playhouse
1966 · Series
3 Raccoon Dogs
1966 · Movie
The War of the Gargantuas
1966 · Movie
That Complicated Guy
1966 · Movie
Five Gents on the Spot
1966 · Movie
The White Rose of Hong Kong
1965 · Movie
Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965 · Movie
You Can If You Try
1965 · Movie
The Radish and the Carrot
1965 · Movie
Female
1964 · Movie
Dogora
1964 · Movie
The Naked Executive
1964 · Movie
3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964 · Movie
High and Low
1963 · Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Movie
A Night to Remember
1962 · Movie
Mount Hakone
1962 · Movie
Whirlpool of Love
1962 · Movie
Structure of Hate
1961 · Movie
Okoto and Sasuke
1961 · Movie
City
1961 · Movie
The Last War
1961 · Movie
The Other Woman
1961 · Movie
Blind Devotion
1961 · Movie
The Legendary Hell
1960 · Movie
Late Autumn
1960 · Movie
The False Student
1960 · Movie
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Movie
The Twilight Story
1960 · Movie
Just Barely
1960 · Movie
The Lost Alibi
1960 · Movie
Leader of the Bomb Girls
1959 · Movie
Pilgrimage at Night
1959 · Movie
The Rokumeikan
1959 · Movie
The Beast Shall Die
1959 · Movie
Vagabond Employee: Revenge
1959 · Movie
The Cast-Off
1959 · Movie
A Woman's Heart
1959 · Movie
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Movie
The Days of Evil Women
1958 · Movie
Equinox Flower
1958 · Movie
Flower's Yearning
1958 · Movie
Little Peach
1958 · Movie
Advance Patrol
1957 · Movie
Secret of Naruto
1957 · Movie
The Shadow Daughter
1957 · Movie
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1957 · Movie
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · Movie
Night Butterflies
1957 · Movie
Throne of Blood
1957 · Movie
Flowing
1956 · Movie
Engagement Ring
1956 · Movie
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956 · Movie
Punishment Room
1956 · Movie
Gendai no yokubô
1956 · Movie
The Lady Was Pawn
1956 · Movie
Farewell to Dream
1956 · Movie
Early Spring
1956 · Movie
I Live in Fear
1955 · Movie
The Romance of Yushima
1955 · Movie
Beast Man Snow Man
1955 · Movie
Yukiko
1955 · Movie
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955 · Movie
Tomoshibi
1954 · Movie
Itsuko to sono haha
1954 · Movie
One Night of Love
1954 · Movie
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953 · Movie
Tokyo Story
1953 · Movie
The Blue Revolution
1953 · Movie
Sunflower Girl
1953 · Movie
Ikiru
1952 · Movie
Doctor's Day Off
1952 · Movie
Freedom School
1951 · Movie
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 · Movie