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Tatsuya Nakadai

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Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of Japanese actors well known outside Japan. Nakadai was a tall handsome clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast him in Kabe atsuki heya. Nakadai was subsequently cast in the lead role in Kobayashi's monumental... See full bio »

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Motohisa Nakadai
in Tokyo, Japan [some sources say 1930]
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2013 Human Trust (post-production)
Nobuhiro Sasakura
 
2013 Yakusoku: Nabari dokubudôshu jiken shikeishû no shôgai
Masaru okunishi
 
2012 Tsunagu
 
2012 Japan's Tragedy
Fujio
 
2012 Gaku (TV movie)
Kazama Shin-ichi
 
2010 Zatoichi: The Last
 
2010 Haru's Journey
Tadao Nakai
 
2009 Listen to My Heart
Kyozo Hayami
 
2006 The Inugamis
Sahei Inugami
 
2006 Shin ningen kousaten (TV series)
Yuji
– Tsubasa aru fune ha (2006) … Yuji
– Aka hige no saigetsu (2006) … Yuji
– Intai kisha no fairu (2006) … Yuji
 
2005 Yamato
Katsumi Kamio (75 years old)
 
2005 Hoshi ni negaio: 7jô ma de umareta 410man no hoshi (TV movie)
Takanori Wakamiya
 
2004 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (TV series)
Matsumoto Kentaro
 
2003 Like Asura
Kotaro Takezawa
 
2002 Hi wa mata noboru
Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
 
2002 Shiroi inu to warutsu wo
Eisuke Nakamoto
 
2001 Vengeance for Sale
Umetaro Katakura
 
2001 Aki no ryojô sasupensu 3: Shokutaku keiji Koyamada Shô'hei tabiji no hate (TV movie)
 
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
Hideaki Sasaki
 
1999 After the Rain
Tsuji Gettan
 
1996 Miyazawa Kenji sono ai
Seijirou Miyazawa
 
1996 Hideyoshi (TV series)
Sen no Rikyu (Tea Ceremony master)
 
1995 East Meets West
Rentaro Katsu
 
1993 Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
 
1993 Kozure Ôkami: Sono chîsaki te ni
Yagyu Retsudo
 
1993 Yiu sau dou si
Daishu (Yuen Tai Chung)
 
1992 Toki rakujitsu
Kobayashi
 
1992 Gô-hime
Oribe Furuta
 
1991 Kagerô
Tsunejiro Murai
 
1990 Bujinesuman no chichi yori musuko e no 30-tsuu no tegami (TV series)
 
1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood
Sugiyama
 
1989 Return from the River Kwai
Major Harada
 
1988 Oracion
Heihachiro Wagu
 
1987 Hachi-ko
Shujiro Ueno
 
1986 Michi
Seiji Tajima
 
1986 Atami satsujin jiken
Denbei Nikaido
 
1985 Shokutaku no nai ie
Nabayuki Kidoji
 
1985 Ran
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
 
1984 Kita no hotaru
Takeshi Tsukigata
 
1983 Final Yamato
Narrator (voice)
 
1982 Onimasa
Masagoro Kiryuin - Onimasa
 
1981 Willful Murder
Yashiro
 
1980 Aokiôkami narukichiomoase no shôgai (TV movie)
 
1980 203 kochi
General Nogi
 
1980 Kagemusha
Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha
 
1979 Hunter in the Dark
Gomyo Kiyoemon
 
1978 Burû Kurisumasu
Minami
 
1978 Firebird: Daybreak Chapter
Jingi the Conqueror, leader of the Takamagahara
 
1978 Kumokiri Nizaemon
Kumokiri Nizaemon
 
1978 Queen Bee
Ginzo Daidoji
 
1977 Sugata Sanshiro
Yano
 
1976 Fumô chitai
 
1976 Zoku ningen kakumei
 
1976 Banka
Setsuo Katsuragi
 
1975 Kinkanshoku
Hoshino, the Chief Cabinet Secretary
 
1975 I Am a Cat
Kushami
 
1975 Tokkan
 
1975 The Gate of Youth
Yuki, Shinsuke's father
 
1974 The Family
Teppei Manpyo
 
1973 Rise, Fair Sun
Sakuzo
 
1973 The Human Revolution
 
1973 Belladonna of Sadness
Devil
 
1973 Ôshô
 
1972 Shin heike monogatari (TV series)
 
1971 The Wolves
Seji Iwahashi
 
1971 Inochi bô ni furô
Sadashichi
 
1971 Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen
Colonel Hiromichi Yahara
 
1970 Will to Conquer
Toyo Yoshida
 
1970 Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Ronin (as Tatsuya Nakayo)
 
1970 The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Naojiro Kataoka
 
1970 Bakumatsu
Shintaro Nakaoka
 
1970 Ezo yakata no ketto
Daizennokami Honjo
 
1969 Jigokuhen
Yoshihide
 
1969 Tengu-to
Sentaro
 
1969 Hitokiri
Hampeita Takechi
 
1969 Nihonkai daikaisen
Major Genjiro Akashi
 
1969 Eiko e no 5,000 kiro
 
1969 Goyôkin
Magobei Wakizaka
 
1968 The Human Bullet
A narrator
 
1968 Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku
Narrator (voice)
 
1968 Kill!
Genta
 
1968 Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
James Elfego
 
1967 Tabiji
Yuichiro
 
1967 Samurai Rebellion
Tatewaki Asano
 
1967 Sasaki Kojiro
Musashi Miyamoto
 
1967 Epoch of Murder Madness
Shinji Kikyo
 
1966 The Daphne
Professor Kanahira
 
1966 Shurushuru (TV movie)
 
1966 The Face of Another
Mr. Okuyama
 
1966 The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke Tsukue
 
1966 Cash Calls Hell
Oida
 
1965 Chi to suna
Sakuma
 
1965 Yotsuya kaidan
Iyemon Tamiya
 
1965 Matatabi san ning yakuza
 
1965 Saigô no shinpan
 
1964 Kwaidan
Mi nokichi (segment "Yuki-Onna")
 
1964 Jigoku sakusen
 
1964 The Inheritance
Furukawa Kikuo
 
1963 A Woman's Life
 
1963 Miren
 
1963 500,000
Mitsura Gunji
 
1963 Shiro to kuro
Hamano
 
1963 High and Low
Chief Detective Tokura
 
1963 Yushu heiya
Tatsumi
 
1962 Harakiri
Hanshiro Tsugumo
 
1962 Love Under the Crucifix
Ukon Takayama
 
1962 Poignant Story
Minami
 
1962 Sanjuro
Hanbei Muroto
 
1961 Kumo ga chigireru toki
 
1961 Yojimbo
Unosuke, gunfighter
 
1961 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Kaji
 
1961 Immortal Love
Heibei
 
1960 Get 'em All
Tsubota
 
1960 The Blue Beast
Yasuhiko Kuroki
 
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Shingo Kuroki
 
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Kenichi Komatsu, the manager
 
1959/II The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji
 
1959 Anyakôro
Kaname
 
1959 Three Dolls in Ginza
 
1959 Kagi
Kimura
 
1959 Yajû shisubeshi
 
1959/I The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Kaji
 
1958 Naked Sun
 
1958 Conflagration
Tokari
 
1958 Go and Get It
The Assistant
 
1958 Kekkon no subete
 
1958 A Boy and Three Mothers
The Engineer
 
1957 Sazae-san no seishun
Norisuke
 
1957 Zokuzoku Ôban: Dôto uhen
 
1957 Hadairo no tsuki
Jirô Taki
 
1957 Kiken na eiyu
 
1957 Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
 
1957 Hikage no musume
 
1957 Untamed Woman
 
1957 Ôban
 
1957 Black River
 
1956 Oshidori no mon
 
1956 Sazae-san
Norisuke
 
1956 Fukuaki no seishun
 
1956 Hi no tori
 
1956 Kabe atsuki heya
 
1954 Seven Samurai
Samurai Wandering Through Town (uncredited)
 
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2013 Studio Park kara konnichiwa (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Tatsuya Nakadai (2013) … Himself - Guest
 
2010-2011 Nakadai Tatsuya no nihon eiga isan (TV series)
Himself
– Kisai Tensai Inou no kantokutachi no genba (2011) … Himself
– Episode #1.5 (2011) … Himself
– Meishou Kisai Meijoyuutachi tono genba (2010) … Himself
– Kyoshoutachi to no deai (2010) … Himself
 
2011 The Making of 'Haru to no tabi' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2011 Tetsuko's Room (TV series)
Himself
– Tetsuya Nakadai & Keigo Nakadai (2011) … Himself
 
2010 Bokura no jidai (TV series)
Himself
– Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ozora & Yukiyo Toake (2010) … Himself
 
2003 Tsukuru to iu koto wa subarashii! Kurosawa Akira: Korega Kuroswa sasupensu da (video documentary short)
Himself - Interviewee
 
2000 Great Performances (TV series)
Himself
– Kurosawa (2000) … Himself
 
1999 Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1985 A.K. (documentary)
Himself
 
1967 Japan's Longest Day
Himself - Narrator (voice)
 

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Alternate Names:

Tatsuya Nakayo

Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Trivia:

He played characters of a very different age from his own through his career. In Harakiri, he played a samurai in his 50s while he was 33. In Kwaidan, he played a 18-year-old woodcutter when he himself was 36. In Ran he played a nearly 80-year-old war lord when he was 56. See more »

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Star Sign:

Sagittarius