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
Ikiru
Deputy Mayor
High and Low
Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Tokyo Story
Kurazo Kaneko
Throne of Blood
Phantom samurai
Tampopo
Old Gentleman
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Honsha Buchô
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuzo Kawai
The Bad Sleep Well
Legal Adviser
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Filmography
Acting (95)
Movies (92)
No Life King
1989
BU・SU
1987as Customer
Tampopo
1985as Old Gentleman
I Lived, But...
1983as Self
The Tale of Saikaido
1983
Golden Partners
1979as Watsuji
Lullaby to Kill
1977as Hôan Tatara
A Portrait of Shunkin
1976as Harumatsu(春松検校)
The Last Song
1975
Tidal Wave
1975as Japanese Ambassador
Submersion of Japan
1973as Japanese Ambassador
Internal Sleuth
1973
The Twilight Years
1973as Fujieda (attorney at law)
Cross-Currents
1972
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971
君は海を見たか
1971
The Militarists
1970as Koichi Kido
The Creature Called Man
1970as Head of N-Bussan
Futari no Koibito
1969
Sky Scraper!
1969
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
1968as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
The Night of the Seagull
1968
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
1968as Fujikawa
Young Guy in Rio
1968
Sodachi zakari
1967
Japan's Longest Day
1967as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
Two in the Shadow
1967
Thirst for Love
1967as Father-in-Law
Five Gents on the Spot
1966as Nobuo Tomioka
The War of the Gargantuas
1966as Professor Kita
That Complicated Guy
1966
3 Raccoon Dogs
1966as Ryūtarō Ōsato
Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965as Dr. Suga
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
The White Rose of Hong Kong
1965as Kazumasa Nagahara
Dogora
1964as Doctor Matakata
3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964
The Naked Executive
1964as Serizawa, executive
Female
1964
High and Low
1963as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
An Autumn Afternoon
1962as Shuzo Kawai
Ai no uzu shio
1962
Mount Hakone
1962
A Night to Remember
1962
Okoto and Sasuke
1961as Shunsho Kengyo
City
1961
The Last War
1961as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
Structure of Hate
1961
The Other Woman
1961as Kimura
Blind Devotion
1961as Wataru Kamogawa
The Human Condition
1961as Honsha Buchô
Late Autumn
1960as Shuzo Taguchi
The Bad Sleep Well
1960as Legal Adviser
The Twilight Story
1960
The False Student
1960as Jiro Takagi
The Lost Alibi
1960as Takeda
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959as Honsha Buchô
The Rokumeikan
1959
The Cast-Off
1959as Kuga
The Beast Shall Die
1959as Professor Sugimura
Vagabond Employee: Revenge
1959as Executive Watanabe
Equinox Flower
1958as Toshihiko Kawai
Little Peach
1958
The Days of Evil Women
1958
Flower's Yearning
1958as Hishikawa Kao
Tokyo Twilight
1957as Sakae Aiba
Throne of Blood
1957as Phantom samurai
Advance Patrol
1957
Night Butterflies
1957
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1957as Prof. Tanaka
Secret of Naruto
1957
The Shadow Daughter
1957
Early Spring
1956as Arakawa
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956
Flowing
1956as Doctor
Engagement Ring
1956as Yasuyuki Kawaguchi (Tokio’s father)
Farewell to Dream
1956as Seiji's father, Haruo
Punishment Room
1956
The Romance of Yushima
1955
I Live in Fear
1955as Psychologist
Yukiko
1955
Beast Man Snow Man
1955as Professor Koizumi
Tomoshibi
1954
Itsuko to sono haha
1954as Nomura, Chairman
Tokyo Story
1953as Kurazo Kaneko
Sunflower Girl
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
The Blue Revolution
1953
Ikiru
1952as Deputy Mayor
Doctor's Day Off
1952
Freedom School
1951
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
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