Nobuo Nakamura
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 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 had played The Professor every Friday night at a small theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo until 1983. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuo Nakamura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Frankenstein Conquers the World
(Dr. Suga)
Ikiru
(Deputy Mayor)
Late Autumn
(Shuzo Taguchi)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
(Honsha Buchô)
The Bad Sleep Well
(Legal Adviser)
Tampopo
(Old Gentleman)
High and Low
(Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director)
Dogora
(Doctor Matakata)
Tokyo Story
(Kurazo Kaneko)
Female
Tokyo Twilight
(Sakae Aiba)
The Naked Executive
(Serizawa, executive)
Futari no Koibito
Thirst for Love
(Father-in-Law)
The Last War
(Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa)
君は海を見たか
No Life King
Lullaby to Kill
(Hôan Tatara)
The Tale of Saikaido
A Portrait of Shunkin
(Harumatsu(春松検校))
Half Human
(Professor Koizumi)
Ai no uzu shio
Sodachi zakari
The Creature Called Man
(Head of N-Bussan)
The Militarists
(Koichi Kido)
Mount Hakone
The Romance of Yushima
Yukiko
幻の殺意
Sky Scraper!
The Cast-Off
BU・SU
(Customer)
Freedom School
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
I Live in Fear
(Psychologist)
Throne of Blood
(Phantom samurai)
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Advance Patrol
Flowing
(Doctor)
Little Peach
The Rokumeikan
Night Butterflies
A Night to Remember
The Last Song
The Twilight Story
The Other Woman
(Kimura)
The Lost Alibi
(Takeda)
Equinox Flower
(Toshihiko Kawai)
Punishment Room
Two in the Shadow
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
(Prof. Tanaka)
The Night of the Seagull
Internal Sleuth
Okoto and Sasuke
(Shunsho Kengyo)
Blind Devotion
(Wataru Kamogawa)
I Lived, But...
(Self)
The Twilight Years
(Fujieda (attorney at law))
The Days of Evil Women
The False Student
(Jiro Takagi)
The Beast Shall Die
(Professor Sugimura)
Cross-Currents
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
The Radish and the Carrot
Farewell to Dream
(Seiji's father, Haruo)
An Autumn Afternoon
(Shuzo Kawai)
The War of the Gargantuas
(Dr. Kita)
Golden Partners
(Watsuji)
Submersion of Japan
(Japanese Ambassador)
Itsuko to sono haha
(Nomura, Chairman)
Early Spring
(Arakawa)
Sunflower Girl
Secret of Naruto
Doctor's Day Off
The Blue Revolution
Tomoshibi
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Japan's Longest Day
(Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido)
City
That Complicated Guy
Tidal Wave
(Japanese Ambassador)
The Trading Company
(Mikio Hamashima)
The White Tower
(東貞蔵)
Kemono Michi