About
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...
Known for
High and LowMovie • 1963
IkiruMovie • 1952
NET PlayhouseSeries • 1966
Tokyo StoryMovie • 1953
The Human Condition I: No Greater LoveMovie • 1959
Throne of BloodMovie • 1957
TampopoMovie • 1985
Frankenstein Conquers the WorldMovie • 1965
An Autumn AfternoonMovie • 1962
The Bad Sleep WellMovie • 1960
Equinox FlowerMovie • 1958
The War of the GargantuasMovie • 1966
Late AutumnMovie • 1960
Tokyo TwilightMovie • 1957
Submersion of JapanMovie • 1973
I Live in FearMovie • 1955
Early SpringMovie • 1956
Japan's Longest DayMovie • 1967
DogoraMovie • 1964
Two in the ShadowMovie • 1967
Secret of NarutoMovie • 1957
FlowingMovie • 1956