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