Nobuo Nakamura
Actor
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
Tokyo Story
as Kurazo Kaneko 1953
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director 1963
Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai 1957
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman 1985
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai 1962
The Bad Sleep Well
as Legal Adviser 1960
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô 1959
Late Autumn
as Shuzo Taguchi 1960
Equinox Flower
as Toshihiko Kawai 1958
Tokyo Twilight
as Sakae Aiba 1957
I Live in Fear
as Psychologist 1955
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita 1966
Early Spring
as Arakawa 1956
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga 1965
Dogora
as Doctor Matakata 1964
Two in the Shadow
1967