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Tatsuya Nakadai

Tatsuya Nakadai

Highest Rated: 100% The Face of Another (1966)

Lowest Rated: 70% Odd Obsession (1959)

Birthday: Dec 13, 1932

Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

Lean, wiry leading man who began his career in the 1950s and established himself in the films of director Masaki Kobayashi, notably as the hero of Kobayashi's great trilogy, "The Human Condition" (1959-61). Nakadai has also appeared in films by Mizoguchi, Ozu and Kurosawa; he is probably best known to Western audiences as Toshiro Mifune's vain, gun-toting nemesis in "Yojimbo" (1961) and as the Lear character in "Ran" (1985).

Highest rated movies

100% Rebellion
100% The Face of Another
100% Hara-Kiri
100% Sanjuro
100% When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
100% Conflagration
96% Ran
96% High and Low

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YOJIMBO, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1961. THE HUMAN CONDITION, (aka, NINGEN NO JOKEN, NO GREATER LOVE), first and second from left: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toru Abe, 1959 YOJIMBO, (aka THE BODYGUARD), Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, 1961 HIGH AND LOW, (aka TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), Toshiro Mifune (l), Tatsuya Nakadai (r), 1963 HIGH AND LOW, (aka TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), Tatsuya Nakadai, 1963 YOJIMBO, Isuzu Yamada, Tatsuya Nakadai, (r), 1961. KAGEMUSHA, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1980. (c) Toho Company. SAMURAI REBELLION, (aka JOI-UCHI: HAIRYO TSUMA SHIMATSU), Tatsuya Nakadai, 1967 THE FACE OF ANOTHER, (aka TANIN NO KAO, aka I HAVE A STRANGER'S FACE, aka STRANGER'S FACE), Mikijiro Hira, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1966 THE HUMAN CONDITION, (aka, NINGEN NO JOKEN, NO GREATER LOVE), from left: Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1959 YOJIMBO, Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, (back), Takashi Shimura, (r), 1961. RAN, Peter, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1985. (c) Orion Pictures. HIGH AND LOW, (aka TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), Tatsuya Nakadai (foreground left, holding radio mike), 1963 SANJURO, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, 1962 THE FACE OF ANOTHER, (aka TANIN NO KAO, aka I HAVE A STRANGER'S FACE, aka STRANGER'S FACE), Tatsuya Nakadai, (back to camera), Kyoko Kishida, Mikijiro Hira, 1966 SANJURO, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, 1962 SANJURO, Director Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1962 SAMURAI REBELLION, (aka JOI-UCHI: HAIRYO TSUMA SHIMATSU), Tatsuya Nakadai, 1967 KAGEMUSHA, Tatsuya Nakadai (right), 1980. (c) Toho Company. HARUS JOURNEY, (aka HARU TONO TABI), from left: Tatsuya Nakadai, Eri Tokunaga, 2010. ©Asmik Ace Entertainment
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Town and a Tall Chimney Sekine Hyoma (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sleeping Village Narrator - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lear on the Shore Unknown (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet When the Leaves Fall Unknown (Character) - 2015
78% 82% Giovanni's Island Junpei Senou (Voice) - 2014
No Score Yet 83% Haru's Journey Tadao (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Like Asura Kotaro Takezawa (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS Matsushita (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vengeance for Sale Umetaro Katakura (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 86% After the Rain Tsuji Gettan (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet East Meets West Rentaro Katsu (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Summer of the Moonlight Sonata Unknown (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 30% The Wicked City Daishu (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Basara: The Princess Goh Oribe Furuta (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heat Wave Tsunejiro Murai (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return to the River Kwai Major Harada (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 57% Return From the River Kwai Major Harada (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hachi-ko Shujiro Ueno (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Atami Murder Case Denbei Nikaido (Character) - 1986
96% 95% Ran Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Character) $454.0K 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kita no Hotaru Takeshi Tsukigata (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shadow Hunters Unknown (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fir Trees Remain Unknown (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 36% Onimasa Masagoro Kityuin, Onimasa (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Law of Hell Unknown (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bosatsu: Shimoyama Jiken Yashiro (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Magistrate of the Floating World Unknown (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Willful Murder Yashiro (Character) - 1981
89% 92% Kagemusha Shingen Takeda/Kagemusha (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Battle of Port Arthur Unknown (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 86% Hunter in the Dark Gomyo Kiyoemon (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blue Christmas Kazuya Minami (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 92% Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron Kumokiri Nizaemon (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Barren Zone Unknown (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Am a Cat Kushami (Character) - 1975
90% 75% Belladonna of Sadness Devil (Voice) - 1973
No Score Yet 79% The Wolves Seji Iwahashi (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inn of Evil (At the Risk of My Life) Unknown (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Challenge at Dawn Unknown (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 56% Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen Hiromichi Yahara (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan Naojiro Kataoka (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Battle of the Japan Sea Akashi Motojiro (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 76% Heaven's Punishment Hanpeita Takechi (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 84% Goyokin Magobei Wakizaka (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 38% Jigokuhen, (Portrait of Hell ) Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 91% Kiru Genta (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 56% Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die James Elfego (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 78% Japan's Longest Day Narrator - 1968
100% 93% Rebellion Tatewaki Asano (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Age of Assassins Shinji Kikyo (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Journey Yuichiro (Character) - 1967
100% 90% The Face of Another Mr. Okuyama (Character) - 1966
80% 90% The Sword of Doom Ryunosuke Tsukue (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cash Calls Hell Oida (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matatabi Sannin Yakuza Unknown (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fort Graveyard Sakuma (Character) - 1965
96% 95% High and Low Inspector Tokuro (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Woman's Life Unknown (Character) - 1963
100% 97% Hara-Kiri Hanshiro Tsugumo (Character) - 1962
100% 95% Sanjuro Hanbei Muroto (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Under the Crucifix Unknown (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Road to Eternity Kaji (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Inheritance Kikuo Furukawa (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 97% A Soldier's Prayer Kaji (Character) - 1961
96% 96% Yojimbo Unosuke (Character) - 1961
100% 93% When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Kenichi Komatsu (Character) - 1960
73% 95% The Human Condition I: No Greater Love Kaji (Character) - 1959
70% 78% Odd Obsession Kimura (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 94% The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity Kaji (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Naked Sun Unknown (Character) - 1958
100% 64% Conflagration Tokari (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet All About Marriage Unknown (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 83% Kuroi kawa (Black River) Unknown (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Phenix Keiichi (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black River Jo (Character) - 1956