Nobuo Nakamura

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Nabuo Nakamura (中 村 伸 郎, Nakamura Nobuo ; born September 14, 1908 in Otaru ; † July 5, 1991 ) was a Japanese actor .

life and career

Nabuo Nakamura began his acting career in the 1920s in puppet theater. He became a well-known theater actor who had dedicated himself in particular to the modernization of Japanese theater and in 1937 co-founded the drama group Bungakuza . He has appeared in productions of Shakespeare plays and has appeared in several of the plays by Mishima Yukio . From 1972 he played weekly in a small theater in Tokyo the character of the professor in the one-man drama The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco , which became his star role.

Internationally, however, Nakamura is better known for his appearances in over 100 film and television productions between 1938 and the year of his death in 1991. He embodied one of his first notable film roles in Akira Kurosawa's classic film Once Really as Deputy Mayor, who wants to reap every little success of his authorities that makes it through the confused mills of bureaucracy. Equal to the following year Nakamura played with Tokyo Story of Yasujirō Ozu in another great classics of film history. In this he was seen as the oppressed husband of a hairdresser. Until the 1960s, Nakamura worked several times with Kurosawa and Ozu, although his supporting roles in the latter director's films tended to be larger. In several of Ozu's films, for example in his most recent One Autumn Afternoon , he played the former schoolmate or friend of the main character. The slim, bespectacled actor with black hair often embodied characters with a serious and serious aura. Nakamura also appeared in front of the camera several times for the directors Mikio Naruse and Ishirō Honda . From the 1970s, Nakamura was mainly seen in television productions.

In 1976, Nakamura was awarded the Japanese Medal of Honor.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nobuo Nakamura - The Godzilla Cineaste. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Becker: Yasujiro Ozu, the Japanese cultural world and western film: resonances, premises, interdependencies . transcript Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8394-4372-9 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2020]).
  3. ^ Nobuo Nakamura - The Godzilla Cineaste. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nakamura, Nobuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 村 伸 郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Otaru , Japan
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1991