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Nobuo Nakamura

Japanese actor (1908-1991)

Nobuo Nakamura was a Japanese stage and film actor whose screen career ran through the work of three of the country's major directors: Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse. His films include Ozu's Tokyo Story and An Autumn Afternoon and Kurosawa's Ikiru and The Bad Sleep Well.

Nobuo Nakamura appears in 4 films in The Rerun, from 1952 to 1962. Most of that work is in drama, crime and mystery. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Chishū Ryū (3), Yasujirō Ozu (2), Eijirō Tōno (2), Haruko Sugimura (2), Kuniko Miyake (2).

Known for

  • Tokyo Story (1953). Appeared in Yasujiro Ozu’s family drama about elderly parents visiting their grown children.
  • Ikiru (1952). Part of the cast of Akira Kurosawa’s drama about a bureaucrat facing the end of his life.
  • The Bad Sleep Well (1960). Worked with Kurosawa again on this corporate corruption thriller.
  • An Autumn Afternoon (1962). Another of his films for Yasujiro Ozu.

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Quick answers

What movies and TV shows has Nobuo Nakamura been in?
Nobuo Nakamura appears in An Autumn Afternoon (1962), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Tokyo Story (1953) and Ikiru (1952) on The Remote.
When was Nobuo Nakamura born?
Nobuo Nakamura was born on 14 September 1908.

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