Nobuo Nakamura

Nobuo Nakamura  中村伸郎 Nakamura Nobuo September 14 1908July 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 Kurosawas Ikiru 1952 and the hairdressers henpecked husband in Ozus 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 Wildes Salome Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov in Chekovs Uncle Vanya and Krapp in Krapps 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 Mishimas 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 Ionescos 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuo Nakamura licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia