Nobuo Nakamura

Acting · Born 1908-09-14 in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

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…

Filmography

• Ikiru as Deputy Mayor
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Honsha Buchô
• The Bad Sleep Well as Legal Adviser
• Tampopo as Old Gentleman
• High and Low as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
• Tokyo Story as Kurazo Kaneko
• Throne of Blood as Phantom samurai
• An Autumn Afternoon as Shuzo Kawai
• Frankenstein Conquers the World as Dr. Suga
• Late Autumn as Shuzo Taguchi

TV

• The Trading Company as Mikio Hamashima
• The White Tower as 東貞蔵