Actor
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 ...

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