Tatsuya Nakadai

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Tatsuya Nakadai
Born	December 13, 1932 (1932-12-13) (age 77) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	actor

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 Toshiro Mifune.

Beginning in the late 1950s, he worked with a number of Japan's best-known filmmakers, starring or co-starring in 5 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 Toshiro Mifune. Nakadai was featured in 11 Kobayashi films including, The Human Condition trilogy, Harakiri and Kwaidan. The Thick-Walled Room marked Nakadai's acting debut.

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1953: The Thick-Walled Room (Kabe atsuki heya) - directed by Masaki Kobayashi 1954: Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) - d. Akira Kurosawa 1956: Hi no tori - d. Umeji Inoue 1956: Fukuaki no seishun - d. Senkichi Taniguchi 1956: Sazae-san - d. Nobuo Aoyagi 1956: Oshidori no mon - d. Keigo Kimura 1957: Black River (Kuroi kawa) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1957: Oban - d. Yasuki Chiba 1957: Untamed (Arakure) - d. Mikio Naruse 1957: Hikage no musume - d. Shūe Matsubayashi 1957: Zoku Oban: Fuun hen - d. Yasuki Chiba 1957: A Dangerous Hero (Kiken na eiyu) - d. Hideo Suzuki 1957: Zokuzoku Oban: Doto uhen - d. Yasuki Chiba 1957: Sazae's Youth (Sazae-san no seishun) - d. Nobuo Aoyagi 1958: A Boy and Three Mothers (Haha sannin) - d. Seiji Hisamatsu 1958: All About Marriage (Kekkon no subete) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1958: Go and Get It (Buttuke honban) - d. Kozo Saeki 1958: Enjo - d. Kon Ichikawa 1958: The Naked Sun (Hadaka no taiyo) - d. Miyoji Ieki 1958: The Human Condition I (Ningen no jōken I) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1959: Yaju shisubeshi - d. Eizo Sugawa 1959: Odd Obsession (Kagi) - d. Kon Ichikawa 1959: Three Dolls in Ginza (Ginza no onéchan) - d. Toshio Sugie 1959: Anyakoro - d. Shiro Toyoda 1959: The Human Condition II (Ningen no jōken II) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1960: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki) - d. Mikio Naruse 1960: Love Under the Crucifix (Oginsama) - d. Kinuyo Tanaka 1960: Daughters, Wives, and a Mother (Musume tsuma haha) - d. Mikio Naruse 1960: The Blue Beast (Aoi yaju) - d. Hiromichi Horikawa 1960: Get 'em All ("Minagoroshi no uta" yori kenju-yo saraba!) - d. Eizo Sugawa 1961: The Other Woman (Tsuma to shite onna to shite) - d. Mikio Naruse 1961: Immortal Love (Eien no hito) - d. Keisuke Kinoshita 1961: The Human Condition III (Ningen no jōken III) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1961: Yojimbo (用心棒 Yōjinbō) - d. Akira Kurosawa 1961: Kumo ga chigieru toki - d. Heinosuke Gosho 1962: Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjuro) - d. Akira Kurosawa 1962: The Inheritance (Karami-ai) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1962: Harakiri (Seppuku) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1962: Madame Aki (Yushu heiya) - d. Shiro Toyoda 1963: High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) - d. Akira Kurosawa 1963: Pressure of Guilt (Shiro to kuro) - d. Hiromichi Horikawa 1963: The Legacy of the 500,000 (Gojuman-nin no isan) - d. Toshiro Mifune 1963: Miren - d. Yasuki Chiba 1963: A Woman's Life (Onna no rekishi) - d. Mikio Naruse 1964: Jigoku sakusen - d. Takashi Tsuboshima 1964: Kwaidan (Kaidan) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1965: Saigo no shinpan - d. Hiromichi Horikawa 1965: Fort Graveyard (Chi to suna) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1966: Illusion of Blood (Yotsuya kaidan) - d. Shiro Toyoda 1966: Cash Calls Hell (Gohiki no shinshi) - d. Hideo Gosha 1966: The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu toge) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1966: The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) - d. Hiroshi Teshigahara 1966: The Daphne (Jinchoge) - d. Yasuki Chiba 1967: The Age of Assassins (Satsujin kyo jidai) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1967: Kojiro - d. Hiroshi Inagaki 1967: Samurai Rebellion (Joi-uchi: Hairyo tsuma shimatsu) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1967: Tabiji - d. Shinji Murayama 1968: Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (Oggi a me... domani a te!) - d. Tonino Cervi 1968: Kill! (Kiru) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1968: Admiral Yamamoto (Rengo kantai shirei chokan: Yamamoto Isoroku) - d. Seiji Maruyama 1968: The Human Bullet (Nikudan) - d. Kihachi Okamoto

1969: Goyokin - d. Hideo Gosha 1969: Eiko’s 5000 Kilograms (Eiko e no 5,000 kiro) - d. Koreyoshi Kurahara 1969: Battle of the Japan Sea (Nihonkai daikaisen) - d. Seiji Maruyama 1969: Tenchu! (Hitokiri) - d. Hideo Gosha 1969: Blood End (Tengu-to) - d. Satsuo Yamamoto 1969: Portrait of Hell (Jigokuhen) - d. Shiro Toyoda 1970: Duel at Ezo (Ezo yakata no ketto) - d. Kengo Furusawa 1970: Bakumatsu - d. Daisuke Itō 1970: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (Buraikan) - d. Masahiro Shinoda 1970: Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (Zatoichi abare-himatsuri) - d. Kenji Misumi 1970: Will to Conquer (Tenkan no abarembo) - d. Seiji Maruyama 1971: Inn of Evil (Inochi bonifuro) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1971: The Battle of Okinawa (film) (Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1972: The Wolves (Shussho Iwai) - d. Hideo Gosha 1973: Osho - d. Hiromichi Horikawa 1973: Belladonna (Kanashimi no Belladonna) - Eiichi Yamamoto 1973: The Human Revolution (Ningen kakumei) - d. Toshio Masuda 1973: Rise, Fair Sun (Asayake no uta)- d. Kei Kumai 1974: Karei-naru Ichizoku - d. Satsuo Yamamoto 1975: The Gate of Youth (Seishun no mon) - Kiriro Urayama 1975: Tokkan - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1975: I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru) - d. Kon Ichikawa 1975: Kinkanshoku - d. Satsuo Yamamoto 1976: Banka - d. Yoshihiro Kawasaki 1976: Zoku ningen kakumei - d. Toshio Masuda 1976: Fumo chitai - d. Satsuo Yamamoto 1977: Sugata Sanshiro - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1978: Blue Christmas (Buru Kurisumasu) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1978: Queen Bee (Jo-oh-bachi) - d. Kon Ichikawa 1978: Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (Kumokiri nizaemon) - d. Hideo Gosha 1978: The Firebird (Hi no tori) - d. Kon Ichikawa 1979: Hunter in the Dark (Yami no karyudo) - .d Hideo Gosha 1980: Kagemusha - d. Akira Kurosawa 1980: Port Arthur (203 kochi) - d. Toshio Masuda 1981: Willful Murder (Nihon no atsui hibi bosatsu: Shimoyama jiken) - d. Kei Kumai 1982: Onimasa (Kiruin Hanako no shogai) - d. Hideo Gosha 1983: Final Yamato (Uchū senkan Yamato: Kanketsuhen) - d. Tomoharu Katsumata / Yoshinobu Nishizaki / Takeshi Shirado / Toshio Masuda 1984: Kita no hotaru - d. Hideo Gosha 1985: Ran - d. Akira Kurosawa 1985: The Empty Table (Shokutaku no nai ie) - d. Masaki Kobayashi 1986: Atami satsujin jiken - d. Kazuo Takahashi 1987: Hachi-ko (Hachiko monogatari) - d. Seijiro Koyama 1988: Return From the River Kwai - d. Andrew V. McLaglen 1988: Oracion (Yushun) - d. Shigemichi Sugita 1989: Four Days of Snow and Blood (Ni-ni-roku) - d. Hideo Gosha 1991: Heat Wave (Kagero) - d. Hideo Gosha 1992: The Wicked City (Yao shou du shi) - d. Mak Tai-Kit 1992: Basara – The Princess Goh (Goh-hime) - d. Hiroshi Teshigahara 1992: Faraway Sunset (Toki rakujitsu) - d. Seijiro Koyama 1993: Lone Wolf and Cub: Handful of Sand (Kozure Okami: Sono chisaki te ni) - d. Akira Inoue 1993: Summer of the Moonlight Sonata (Gekko no natsu) - d. Seijiro Koyama 1995: East Meets West - d. Kihachi Okamoto 1996: Miyazawa Kenji sono ai - d. Seijiro Koyama 1996: A Son of the Good Earth (NHK Television series) 1999: After the Rain (Ame agaru) - d. Takashi Koizumi 1999: Spellbound (Kin'yu fushoku retto: Jubaku) - d. Masato Harada 2001: Vengeance for Sale (Sukedachi-ya Sukeroku) - d. Kihachi Okamoto 2002: To Dance With the White Dog (Shiroi inu to Waltz wo) - d. Takashi Tsukinoki 2002: Hi wa mata noboru - d. Kiyoshi Sasabe 2003: Like Asura (Ashura no gotoku) - d. Yoshimitsu Morita 2005: Yamato (Otoko-tachi no Yamato) - d. Junya Sato 2006: The Inugamis (Inugamike no ichizoku) - d. Kon Ichikawa 2007: Furin Kazan (NHK Taiga drama)

[edit] External links

• The Eighth Samurai: Tatsuya Nakadai by Chuck Stephens
• Tatsuya Nakadai at the Internet Movie Database
• Tatsuya Nakadai (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Nakadai, Tatsuya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Japanese film actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1932-12-13
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo, Japan
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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