Nobuo Nakamura
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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Acted in
No Life King
1989
BU・SU
1987
as Customer
Tampopo
1985
as Old Gentleman
I Lived, But...
1983
as Self
The Tale of Saikaido
1983
Kemono Michi
1982
The Trading Company
1980
as Mikio Hamashima
Golden Partners
1979
as Watsuji
The White Tower
1978
as 東貞蔵
Lullaby to Kill
1977
as Hôan Tatara
A Portrait of Shunkin
1976
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
The Last Song
1975
Tidal Wave
1975
as Japanese Ambassador
Submersion of Japan
1973
as Japanese Ambassador
Internal Sleuth
1973
The Twilight Years
1973
as Fujieda (attorney at law)
Cross-Currents
1972
君は海を見たか
1971
幻の殺意
1971
The Militarists
1970
as Koichi Kido
The Creature Called Man
1970
as Head of N-Bussan
Sky Scraper!
1969
Futari no Koibito
1969
The Night of the Seagull
1968
Two in the Shadow
1967
Sodachi zakari
1967
Japan's Longest Day
1967
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
Thirst for Love
1967
as Father-in-Law
The War of the Gargantuas
1966
as Professor Kita
That Complicated Guy
1966
Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965
as Dr. Suga
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Female
1964
Dogora
1964
as Doctor Matakata
The Naked Executive
1964
as Serizawa, executive
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
1964
High and Low
1963
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Shuzo Kawai
A Night to Remember
1962
Mount Hakone
1962
Ai no uzu shio
1962
Okoto and Sasuke
1961
as Shunsho Kengyo
City
1961
The Last War
1961
as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
The Other Woman
1961
as Kimura
Blind Devotion
1961
as Wataru Kamogawa
Late Autumn
1960
as Shuzo Taguchi
The False Student
1960
as Jiro Takagi
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
as Legal Adviser
The Twilight Story
1960
The Lost Alibi
1960
as Takeda
The Rokumeikan
1959
The Beast Shall Die
1959
as Professor Sugimura
The Cast-Off
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
as Honsha Buchô
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1958
as Prof. Tanaka
The Days of Evil Women
1958
Equinox Flower
1958
as Toshihiko Kawai
Little Peach
1958
Advance Patrol
1957
Secret of Naruto
1957
Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Sakae Aiba
Night Butterflies
1957
Throne of Blood
1957
as Phantom samurai
Flowing
1956
as Doctor
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956
Punishment Room
1956
Farewell to Dream
1956
as Seiji's father, Haruo
Early Spring
1956
as Arakawa
I Live in Fear
1955
as Psychologist
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Half Human
1955
as Professor Koizumi
Yukiko
1955
Tomoshibi
1954
Itsuko to sono haha
1954
as Nomura, Chairman
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Tokyo Story
1953
as Kurazo Kaneko
The Blue Revolution
1953
Sunflower Girl
1953
Ikiru
1952
as Deputy Mayor
Doctor's Day Off
1952
Freedom School
1951
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946