Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/14/1908
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...
Known For
Tokyo Story
as Kurazo Kaneko
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Prof. Tanaka
Ikiru
as Deputy Mayor
High and Low
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Tampopo
as Old Gentleman
Engagement Ring
as Yasuyuki Kawaguchi (Tokio’s father)
BU・SU
as Customer
Throne of Blood
as Phantom samurai
Japan's Longest Day
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Honsha Buchô
Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Dr. Suga
The War of the Gargantuas
as Professor Kita
The Bad Sleep Well
as Legal Adviser
A Portrait of Shunkin
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
Dogora
as Doctor Matakata
Internal Sleuth
Unknown Role
Beast Man Snow Man
as Professor Koizumi
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuzo Kawai
Lullaby to Kill
as Hôan Tatara
Late Autumn
as Shuzo Taguchi