Tatsuya Nakadai
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tatsuya Nakadai (仲代 達矢 Nakadai Tatsuya, born Motohisa Nakadai December 13, 1932) is a Japanese leading film actor. He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s. He became the favorite leading man of internationally-acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa after a well publicized fallout between Kurosawa and the legendary Toshirō Mifune. Beginning in the late 1950s, he worked with a number of Japan's best-known filmmakers, starring or co-starring in five Kurosawa films, along with significant films made by Hiroshi Teshigahara (The Face of Another), Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), Kihachi Okamoto (Kill! and Sword of Doom), Hideo Gosha (Goyokin), Shiro Toyoda (Portrait of Hell) and Kon Ichikawa (Enjo and Odd Obsession). Notably, his long-term collaboration with Masaki Kobayashi invites comparison to the working relationship between Akira Kurosawa and Toshirō Mifune. Nakadai was featured in 11 Kobayashi films including the The Human Condition trilogy, Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion and Kwaidan. The Thick-Walled Room marked Nakadai's acting debut. His next role was a little noticed and uncredited one in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai where he appears for a few seconds as a samurai wandering about town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tatsuya Nakadai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: December 13, 1932
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Makino Tadayuki
as (narration)
as Kuwahata Chokichi
as Narrator
as Kenichiro Miya
as Kenzo Haneda
as Older Junpei Senou (voice)
as Charcoal-maker Old Man (voice)
as Nobuhiro Sasakura
as Sadayuki Akiyama
as Fujio Murai
as Kazama Shin-ichi
as Tendo
as Tadao Nakai
as Kyozo Hayami
as (Archive Footage)
as Sahei Inugami
as Takanori Wakamiya
as Matsumoto Kentaro
as Kotaro Takezawa
as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
as Eisuke Nakamoto
as Umetaro Katakura
as Self
as Tsuji Gettan
as Hideaki Sasaki
as Self
as Seijiro Miyazawa
as Kaishu Katsu
as Yagyu Retsudo
as Daishu
as Kobayashi
as Oribe Furuta
as Tsunejiro Murai
as Sugiyama
as Major Harada
as Heihachiro Wagu
as Shujiro Ueno
as (Narrator)
as Seiji Tajima
as Denbei Nikaido
as Nobuyuki Kidoji
as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
as Self
as Self
as Takeshi Tsukigata
as Narrator
as Sazen Tange
as Masagoro Kiryuin - Onimasa
as Yashiro
as Maresuke Nogi
as Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha
as Gomyo Kiyoemon
as Minami
as Jingi the Conqueror, leader of the Takamagahara
as Kumokiri Nizaemon
as Ginzo Daidoji
as 今西栄太郎
as Setsuo Katsuragi
as Yasuo Hoshino, the Chief Cabinet Secretary
as Kushami
as Hijikata Toshizo
as Teppei Manpyo
as The Devil (voice)
as Kinjiro Sekine
as Taira no Kiyomori
as Seji Iwahashi
as Sadashichi
as Colonel Hiromichi Yahara
as Tsukagoshi
as Naojiro Kataoka
as Shintaro Nakaoka
as Daizennokami Honjo
as Yoshihide
as Sentaro
as Hanpei Takechi
as Major Genjiro Akashi
as Magobei Wakizaka
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Genta
as James Elfego
as Narrator (voice)
as Tatewaki Asano
as Sakamoto
as Musashi Miyamoto
as Shinji Kikyo
as Mr. Okuyama
as Ryunosuke Tsukue
as Oida
as Sakuma
as Iyemon Tamiya
as Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
as Ryôta Kinoshita
as Mitsura Gunji
as Chief Detective Tokura
as Tatsumi
as Hanshiro Tsugumo
as Ukon Takayama
as Kikuo Furukawa
as Hanbei Muroto
as Heibei
as Minami
as Unosuke, gunfighter
as Kaji
as Tsubota
as Kuroki Shingo
as Kenichi Komatsu
as Kyosuke Tamura
as Kimura
as Kunihiko Date
as Tokari
as Kazuo Shimada
as Shin Don
as His assistant
as Akira Nakayama
as The Engineer
as Kunihiko Sasada
as Shindon
as Jo
as Jirô Taki
as Shin don
as Kimura
as Shin Don
as Norisuke
as (uncredited)
as Yûji Wada
as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
as Masaki