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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 Yasujirō Ozu in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).

Nobuo Nakamura
Nakamura in Honjitsu kyūshin (1952)
Born	(1908-09-14)September 14, 1908 Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Died	July 5, 1991(1991-07-05) (aged 82)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1932–1991

Nakamura was also famous for many notable contributions to Japanese modern 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 left Bungakuza company and founded the NLT company with Mishima. His most famous and successful role is considered to be The Professor in Ionesco's The Lesson. He performed The Lesson for the first time in 1972 and played The Professor every Friday night at Shibuya Jean-Jean, a small theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo until 1983. Appropriately, one of his last movie roles was a cameo as a deceptively decrepit-looking "professor" in Juzo Itami's film comedy Tampopo (1985).

Selected filmography

Films

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

• Nobuo Nakamura at IMDb

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