Nobuo Nakamura
Acting • Born 1908-09-14 – Died 1991-07-05
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuo Nakamura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
96 credits
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Movie • 1965
Dr. Suga
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Deputy Mayor
Late Autumn
Movie • 1960
Shuzo Taguchi
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Honsha Buchô
The Bad Sleep Well
Movie • 1960
Legal Adviser
Tampopo
Movie • 1985
Old Gentleman
High and Low
Movie • 1963
Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Dogora
Movie • 1964
Doctor Matakata
Tokyo Story
Movie • 1953
Kurazo Kaneko
Female
Movie • 1964
Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Sakae Aiba
The Naked Executive
Movie • 1964
Serizawa, executive
Futari no Koibito
Movie • 1969
Thirst for Love
Movie • 1967
Father-in-Law
The Last War
Movie • 1961
Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
君は海を見たか
Movie • 1971
No Life King
Movie • 1989
Lullaby to Kill
Movie • 1977
Hôan Tatara
The Tale of Saikaido
Movie • 1983
A Portrait of Shunkin
Movie • 1976
Harumatsu(春松検校)
Beast Man Snow Man
Movie • 1955
Professor Koizumi
Ai no uzu shio
Movie • 1962
Sodachi zakari
Movie • 1967
The Creature Called Man
Movie • 1970
Head of N-Bussan
The Militarists
Movie • 1970
Koichi Kido
Mount Hakone
Movie • 1962
The Romance of Yushima
Movie • 1955
Yukiko
Movie • 1955
Maboroshi no Satsui
Movie • 1971
Sky Scraper!
Movie • 1969
The Cast-Off
Movie • 1959
Kuga
BU・SU
Movie • 1987
Customer
Freedom School
Movie • 1951
3 Gents in the Snow Country
Movie • 1964
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Psychologist
Throne of Blood
Movie • 1957
Phantom samurai
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Movie • 1956
Advance Patrol
Movie • 1957
Flowing
Movie • 1956
Doctor
Little Peach
Movie • 1958
The Rokumeikan
Movie • 1959
Night Butterflies
Movie • 1957
A Night to Remember
Movie • 1962
The Last Song
Movie • 1975
The Twilight Story
Movie • 1960
The Other Woman
Movie • 1961
Kimura
The Lost Alibi
Movie • 1960
Takeda
Equinox Flower
Movie • 1958
Toshihiko Kawai
Punishment Room
Movie • 1956
Two in the Shadow
Movie • 1967
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Movie • 1957
Prof. Tanaka
The Night of the Seagull
Movie • 1968
Internal Sleuth
Movie • 1973
Okoto and Sasuke
Movie • 1961
Shunsho Kengyo
Blind Devotion
Movie • 1961
Wataru Kamogawa
I Lived, But...
Movie • 1983
Self
The Twilight Years
Movie • 1973
Fujieda (attorney at law)
The Days of Evil Women
Movie • 1958
The False Student
Movie • 1960
Jiro Takagi
The Beast Shall Die
Movie • 1959
Professor Sugimura
Cross-Currents
Movie • 1972
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Movie • 1946
The Radish and the Carrot
Movie • 1965
Farewell to Dream
Movie • 1956
Seiji's father, Haruo
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie • 1962
Shuzo Kawai
The War of the Gargantuas
Movie • 1966
Professor Kita
Golden Partners
Movie • 1979
Watsuji
Submersion of Japan
Movie • 1973
Japanese Ambassador
Itsuko to sono haha
Movie • 1954
Nomura, Chairman
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Arakawa
Sunflower Girl
Movie • 1953
Secret of Naruto
Movie • 1957
Doctor's Day Off
Movie • 1952
The Blue Revolution
Movie • 1953
Tomoshibi
Movie • 1954
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie • 1953
Japan's Longest Day
Movie • 1967
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
City
Movie • 1961
That Complicated Guy
Movie • 1966
Tidal Wave
Movie • 1975
Japanese Ambassador
The White Rose of Hong Kong
Movie • 1965
Kazumasa Nagahara
Five Gents on the Spot
Movie • 1966
Nobuo Tomioka
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Movie • 1968
Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Movie • 1968
Fujikawa
The Shadow Daughter
Movie • 1957
Structure of Hate
Movie • 1961
Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version
Movie • 1959
Executive Watanabe
3 Raccoon Dogs
Movie • 1966
Ryūtarō Ōsato
Flower's Yearning
Movie • 1958
Hishikawa Kao
Engagement Ring
Movie • 1956
Yasuyuki Kawaguchi (Tokio’s father)
Gendai no yokubô
Movie • 1956
Young Guy in Rio
Movie • 1968
The Lady Was Pawn
Movie • 1956
The Trading Company
TV • 1980
Mikio Hamashima
The White Tower
TV • 1978
東貞蔵
Kemono Michi
TV • 1982