Nobuo Nakamura
出生 : 1908-09-14, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
死亡 : 1991-07-05
略歴
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.
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Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy trying to converse with his mother must compete with a home computer for her attention, it's not hard to see why the boy has retreated into his own computer-dominated world."
Customer
性格が“ブス”な女の子が、上京して様々な経験を重ねる中で自分の殻を打ち破って成長していく姿を描く。18歳になる森下麦子は片田舎で生まれ育ち、性格のひねくれた暗い女の子だった。そんな“心のブス”を治すため上京し、置屋を営む叔母・胡蝶のところで鈴女という名前をもらい芸者見習いをしながら高校に通うことになる。
Old Gentleman
長距離トラックの運転手、ゴローとガンがとあるさびれたラーメン屋に入ると、店主のタンポポが幼馴染の土建屋ビスケンにしつこく交際を迫られていたところだった。それを助けようしたゴローだが逆にやられてしまう。翌朝、タンポポに介抱されたゴローはラーメン屋の基本を手解きしタンポポに指導を求められる。そして次の日から「行列のできるラーメン屋」を目指し、厳しい修行を始める。
Self
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures surrounding hidden gold mines.
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
Hôan Tatara
岡山と兵庫の県境にある山村・鬼首村。そこに村出身の人気美人歌手・別所千恵が帰省して以来、恐ろしい殺人事件が連続して発生する。しかも一連の事件は、村に古くから伝わる手毬唄の歌詞の通りに行なわれていることが判明する。私立探偵・金田一耕助は、どうやら事件の原因に仁礼家と由良家という村の旧家同士の確執があることを察知し、20年前にやはりこの村で起きた殺人事件の謎へと遡っていく。
Harumatsu(春松検校)
明治時代初頭の大阪。裕福な薬問屋の箱入り娘として生まれ育った、美しい盲目の女性・お琴。店の奉公人の佐助がお気に入りで、何かと自分の身の回りの世話をさせるが、一方で佐助もそのわがままに耐えながら、彼女に献身的に尽くす。やがて店の主人に許され、お琴専属の付き人となった佐助は同時に、三味線の名手であるお琴のもとで厳しい稽古に励み、芸の腕前が上達する。やがて意外にも、お琴が誰かを相手に妊娠する事態が起きる。
昭和17年、山陰地方のある山村。封建的な地主・園田の跡取り息子、順吉は、親が決めた婚約者がいながら山番の娘・小雪と恋仲になり、周囲の猛反対を押し切って駆け落ちを決行。日本海に面したとある漁村で、ささやかだが2人きりの幸せな新婚生活を送り始める。だが順吉には召集令状が届き、彼は戦地へと出征。そしてある日を境に彼からの便りがぱったりと途絶え、小雪は順吉の消息が一切つかめないまま、孤独に戦後を迎える。
Japanese Ambassador
深海潜水艦・わだつみのなかで日本海溝の異変に気づいた小野寺と田所博士。二人は政界・財界のトップによる“D計画”のために働くことになり、綿密な調査の上、恐るべき推測に到達する。日本列島が海に沈もうとしているのだ……。小松左京の大ベストセラーの映画化。
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
Fujieda (attorney at law)
A woman looks after her father in law.
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
Head of N-Bussan
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
昭和天皇や閣僚たちが御前会議において降伏を決定した1945年（昭和20年）8月14日の正午から、国民に対してラジオ（日本放送協会）の玉音放送を通じてポツダム宣言の受諾を知らせる8月15日正午までの24時間を描いている。
Father-in-Law
A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.
Dr. Kita
ひとつの細胞から生まれた兄弟怪獣、海の怪獣・ガイラと山の怪獣・サンダ。それぞれ善と悪の属性を持ち、性格の異なる2匹はやがて都市で死闘を演じることに。
Skeptical Museum Chief
第二次大戦末期、ドイツから極秘裏に運ばれた一つの秘密兵器があった。それは人造人間“フランケンシュタインの不死の心臓”である。日本軍はこの心臓をもとに、人間兵器を造ろうとしたのだ。だがそれは、広島の原爆によって研究途上で失われてしまう。そして十数年後、その心臓から再生した少年が登場したのだった……。
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Doctor Matakata
地球を周回していたTV衛星が突如爆発した事件は、放射能によって突然変異した宇宙細胞の仕業だった。北九州地方に宇宙細胞が襲来、自衛隊必死の攻撃の前に細胞は消滅するが...。
Serizawa, executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a father.
Shûe Matsubayashi movie
Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
ナショナル・シューズの権藤専務は、自分の息子と間違えられて運転手の息子が誘拐され、身代金3千万円を要求される。苦悩の末、権藤は運転手のために全財産を投げ出して3千万円を用意する。無事子どもは取り戻したが、犯人は巧みに金を奪い逃走してしまい、権藤自身は会社を追われてしまう……。
Shuzo Kawai
周平（笠智衆）は、妻とは死別し、長男の幸一（佐田啓二）は結婚して家を出て団地暮らし。いまは娘の路子（岩下志麻）と次男の和夫（三上真一郎）と３人安らかに暮らしていた。 ある日、周平はいつものように友人の河合（中村伸郎）、堀江（北龍二）と酒を飲みに行く。 話題は路子の嫁行きの話になり、まだ路子を嫁にやることなど考えてもいなかった周平は悩み始める…。 日本映画界の巨匠・小津安二郎監督の最後の作品で、妻に先立たれた男とその子供達の幸せの中にもなぜか潜む孤独と寂しさを描いた作品。
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
Shunsho Kengyo
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
Kimura
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.
Wataru Kamogawa
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
Shuzo Taguchi
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Jiro Takagi
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Legal Adviser
日本未利用土地開発公団の副総裁、岩淵の娘佳子と、秘書の西幸一の披露宴が執り行なわれようとしていた。しかし、この西という男、実は5年前、新庁舎の建設に絡む不正入札疑惑で自ら命を絶ち事件の幕引きを図った課長補佐・古谷の一人息子だった……
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Takeda
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.
Professor Sugimura
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Honsha Buchô
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Prof. Tanaka
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
Toshihiko Kawai
A man clashes with his daughter over her choice of fiancé.
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.
Sakae Aiba
親子愛の断層に焦点を当てた巨匠・小津安二郎の異色作――― 杉山周吉は、20年前、妻にその愛人と逃げられ、長女を嫁がせた今、次女・明子とひっそりと暮らしている。だが、最近明子の帰宅が遅れがちなことに気をもんでいた。明子は年下の恋人の子を妊娠、それを知って姿を消してしまった彼を毎晩探しさまよっていたのだ。そんなある日、ふとしたことから明子は自分や父を捨てた実母と再会。何も知らなかった明子は、母のみだ…
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Phantom samurai
シェイクスピアの『マクベス』を日本の戦国時代に置き換え様式美に拘り描いた戦国武将の一大悲劇。鷲津武時は謀反を起こした敵を討ち、その帰途の森で出会った老婆から不思議な予言を聞く。やがて予言通り事が運び始めると、欲望に取り憑かれた妻にそそのかされて主を殺し、自ら城主の地位につくのだったが……。
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Seiji's father, Haruo
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
蒲田に妻と住む杉山正二は、丸ノ内への通勤途中で知り合ったサラリーマンたちと仲良くなり、退社後に遊びに行くのが日課となっていた。妻は退屈な毎日から逃れるように、おでん屋を営む母の実家へ帰ったりしている。通勤仲間と出かけた江ノ島で、杉山は金子千代と接近。千代の誘惑に耐えきれず、関係を持ってしまう。二人の関係に気づいた杉山の妻は家出して、旧友のアパートに転がり込んだ。同僚の死をきっかけに、杉山は自分の生き方を振り返り、千代と別れようと考え始める。ちょうどその頃、会社で地方工場への転勤話が持ち上がった。小津安二郎が野田高梧とともに書いたシナリオを監督し映画化。不倫に揺れる昭和30年代のサラリーマン夫婦を描く。
Psychologist
町工場を経営する財産家・中島喜一は突然、原水爆とその放射能に対して強い恐怖を抱くようになり、地球上で唯一安全と思われる南米ブラジルへの親類縁者全員の移住を計画する。しかし、このあまりにも突拍子もない行動に対し、現実の生活が脅かされると感じた家族は喜一を準禁治産者として認めてもらうため裁判にかけるのだった。
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
Professor Koizumi
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave. After his departure there is great depression but there is a chance to rekindle the lantern of the title and the values Matsukuma represented ...
Nomura, Chairman
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. The final story tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life.
Kurazo Kaneko
戦後変わりつつある家族の関係をテーマに人間の生と死までをも見つめた深淵なドラマ。故郷の尾道から20年ぶりに東京へ出てきた老夫婦。成人した子どもたちの家を訪ねるが、みなそれぞれの生活に精一杯だった。唯一、戦死した次男の未亡人だけが皮肉にも優しい心遣いを示すのだった……。
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.
Deputy Mayor
市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.
