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Tatsuya Nakadai (仲代 達矢, Nakadai Tatsuya, born Motohisa Nakadai; December 13, 1932) is a Japanese film actor. He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including The Human Condition trilogy, wherein he starred as the lead character Kaji, plus Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion and Kwaidan.
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Tatsuya Nakadai. Actor: Harakiri. Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of Japanese actors well known outside Japan. Nakadai was a tall handsome clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast him in The Thick-Walled Room (1956).
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- 'Harakiri' (1962) Masaki Kobayashi directed Tatsuya Nakadai in the aforementioned Kwaidan and The Human Condition trilogy (among others), but their greatest collaboration would have to be Harakiri.
- 'High and Low' (1963) High and Low certainly isn't a low-rated Akira Kurosawa film. In fact, it's one of his highest-rated, and easily the great director's best crime movie (he did several), with its plot revolving around a wealthy man being extorted after the son of his chauffeur is kidnapped and held for ransom.
- 'Ran' (1985) Ran ranks among the greatest of all Shakespeare film adaptations, with it taking the story of King Lear and setting it in 16th-century Japan.
- 'The Human Condition' (1959-1961) Between 1959 and 1961, Tatsuya Nakadai starred in three war epics that comprise The Human Condition trilogy, with the role of Kaji - a pacifist turned soldier turned survivalist during World War II - being the one that made Nakadai a star.
Nov 8, 2016 · An interview with legendary Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai about "Sword of Doom" and his extensive career in film.
Tatsuya Nakadai. Actor: Harakiri. Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of Japanese actors well known outside Japan. Nakadai was a tall handsome clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast him in The Thick-Walled Room (1956).
- December 13, 1932
Oct 27, 2023 · Born in 1932, Tatsuya Nakdai was trained as a stage actor, mainly influenced by the Shingeki tradition of realistic drama. By the early 1960s, Nakadai, with his piercing eyes and photogenic face, gradually attained hard-won celebrity status.
Dec 11, 2009 · This expansive tribute to the iconic Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai was first published on the Criterion Collection’s website in fall 2005, around the time of the Criterion releases of two films starring Nakadai: Kurosawa’s Ran and the less well-known samurai film Kill!
