Nobuo Nakamura

Nobuo Nakamura
was a Japanese stage and film actor, who appeared in many films by Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse.
Biography
A graduate from Tokyo Kaisei Junior High School, Nakamura studied at the Kawabata School of Painting. After the rejection of his work at an exhibition, he decided to become a stage actor instead, making his stage debut in 1932. He joined the Bungakuza theatre company in 1938, which he left in the wake of the "Harp of Joy incident" (the Bungakuza ensemble had split over the refusal of some of its members to perform Yukio Mishima's play The Harp of Joy) to become a founding member of the Geikan NLT theatre group in 1964, which staged many of Mishima's plays. He later joined the theatre groups Roman Theatre and En Theatre Group.
Nakamura started appearing in films regularly in the 1950s. Notable works in his filmography include Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru and Throne of Blood, Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story and Late Autumn, and Mikio Naruse's Flowing.
Selected filmography
Films
1942: Haha no chizu – Hideo
1946: Urashima Tarō no kōei
1951: Jiyū gakkō
1952: Honjitsu kyūshin – Take-san
1952: Ikiru – Deputy Mayor
1953: Zoku Jūdai no seiten – Tateuo Ueda
1953: Aoiro kakumei – Professor Hisamatsu
1953: Senkan Yamato
1953: Tokyo Story – Kurazo Kaneko
1953: An Inlet of Muddy Water – Yasubee (Story 2)
1954: Itsuko to sono haha – Nomura, Chairman
1954: Tomoshibi – Keizo Kawamura
1955: Jū jin yuki otoko – Professor Koizumi
1955: Shichinin no ani imōto – Yukichi Kitahara
1955: I Live in Fear – Psychologist
1956: Early Spring – Arakawa, chief executive
1956: Farewell to Dream – Seiji's father, Haruo
1956: Shiroi magyo
1956: Gendai no yokubō – Takamatsu
1956: Punishment Room – Professor
1956: Onibi
1956: Konyaku yubiwa-engeeji ringu
1956: Flowing
1956: Hibana – Takayama
1957: Throne of Blood – Phantom samurai
1957: Tokyo Twilight – Sakae Aiba
1957: Hikage no musume
1957: Yoru no chō – Customer
1957: Sono yoru no himegoto – Ryusaku Endo
1957: Nichiro sensō shōri no hishi: Tekichū ōdan sanbyaku-ri
1958: Rickshaw Man – Yoshiko's brother
1958: Anzukko
1958: Hana no bojō – Kaō Hishikawa
1958: Equinox Flower – Toshihiko Kawai
1958: Akujo no kisetsu – Dr. Mizutani
1958: Haru kōrō no hana no en – Shuntarō Tanaka
1958: Half Human – Prof. Tanaka (uncredited)
1959: The Human Condition – Honsha Buchō
1959: Onna gokoro – Tsujinoto
1959: Hanran – Kuga
1959: Yajū shisubeshi – Professor Sugimura
1959: Anyakōro – Kensaku's father
1959: Kaoyaku to bakudan musume – Kōda
1960: Kuroi gashū: Aru sarariman no shōgen
1960: The Twilight Story – Sanji
1960: The Bad Sleep Well – Legal Adviser
1960: A False Student – Takagi
1960: Late Autumn – Shuzo Taguchi
1960: Oden jigoku – Masabumi Gotō
1961: Midaregami – Wataru Kamogawa
1961: Tōkyō yawa – Kyosuke Kamiko
1961: As a Wife, As a Woman – Kimura
1961: The Last War
1961: Machi – Public prosecutor
1961: Onna no tsurihashi – Shinkichi Haurno (Episode 2)
1961: Okoto to Sasuke
1962: Sono yo wa wasurenai – Taneda
1962: An Autumn Afternoon – Shuzo Kawai
1963: High and Low – Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
1964: Zoku shachō shinshiroku
1964: Geisha gakkō
1964: Hadaka no jūyaku – Serizawa, executive
1964: Dogara, the Space Monster – Dr. Munakata
1964: Mesu – Eitaro Shudo
1965: Daikon to ninjin
1965: Frankenstein Conquers the World – Skeptical Museum Chief
1965: Honkon no shiroibara – Nagahara
1966: Zoku shachō gyōjōki
1966: Fukuzatsu na kare
1966: The War of the Gargantuas – Dr. Kita
1966: Thirst for Love – Yakichi Sugimoto
1967: Japan's Longest Day – Kōichi Kido
1967: Sodachi zakari – Shingo Nakayu
1967: Scattered Clouds
1968: Shachō hanjōki
1968: Zoku shacho hanjōki
1968: Rio no wakadaishō
1968: Suna no kaori – Chief Judge
1969: Futari no koibito – Ryōhei Kōno
1970: Jaga wa hashitta – Head of N-Bussan
1970: The Militarists – Kōichi Kido (uncredited)
1971: Maboroshi no satsui
1972: Kuro no honryu – Daizo Kitagawa
1973: Tidal Wave – Japanese Ambassador to Australia
1973: Kōkotsu no hito – Fujieda, lawyer
1974: Karei-naru ichizoku – Matsudaira
1975: Zesshō
1976: Shunkinsho – Harumatsu
1977: Akuma no temari-uta- Hōan Tatara
1985: Tampopo – Intended victim of con man
1987: Bu su – Customer
1989: No raifu kingu – (final film role)
Television
1969: Ten to Chi to - Amari Torayasu
1972: Shin Heike Monogatari - Toba Sōjō
1978: Shiroi Kyotō - Professor Azuma
Honours
Medal with Purple Ribbon (1976)
References
External links
1908 births
1991 deaths
Japanese male film actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
People from Otaru
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon