Nobuo Nakamura

Personal Info

Birthday

September 14, 1908

Day of Death

1991-07-05

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

Also Known As

Нобуо Накамура

Nobuo Nakamura

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.

Known For

Tokyo Story

High and Low

Ikiru

Tampopo

Throne of Blood

Equinox Flower

Early Spring

The White Tower

Filmography

1987
BU・SU
as Customer
1985
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman
1983
I Lived, But...
as Self
1979
Golden Partners
as Watsuji
1977
Lullaby to Kill
as Hôan Tatara
1976
A Portrait of Shunkin
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
1975
Tidal Wave
as Japanese Ambassador
1973
Submersion of Japan
as Japanese Ambassador
The Twilight Years
as Fujieda (attorney at law)
1970
The Militarists
as Koichi Kido
The Creature Called Man
as Head of N-Bussan
1968
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Fujikawa
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
Thirst for Love
as Father-in-Law
1966
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita
Five Gents on the Spot
as Nobuo Tomioka
1965
The White Rose of Hong Kong
as Kazumasa Nagahara
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
1964
Dogora
as Doctor Matakata
The Naked Executive
as Serizawa, executive
1963
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai
1961
Okoto and Sasuke
as Shunsho Kengyo
The Last War
as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
The Other Woman
as Kimura
Blind Devotion
as Wataru Kamogawa
1960
Late Autumn
as Shuzo Taguchi
The False Student
as Jiro Takagi
The Bad Sleep Well
as Legal Adviser
The Lost Alibi
as Takeda
1959
The Beast Shall Die
as Professor Sugimura
Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version
as Executive Watanabe
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
1958
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Prof. Tanaka
Equinox Flower
as Toshihiko Kawai
1957
Tokyo Twilight
as Sakae Aiba
Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
1956
Flowing
as Doctor
Farewell to Dream
as Seiji's father, Haruo
Early Spring
as Arakawa
1955
I Live in Fear
as Psychologist
Half Human
as Professor Koizumi
1954
Itsuko to sono haha
as Nomura, Chairman
1953
Tokyo Story
as Kurazo Kaneko
1952
Ikiru
as Deputy Mayor