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

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1908 births
1991 deaths
Japanese male film actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
People from Otaru
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon