Tatsuya Nakadai

Date of Birth: 13 Dec 1932

Country: Japan

Biography: He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s. Later he became the favorite leading man of Akira Kurosawa after a well-publicized fallout between Kurosawa and 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 and eleven Kobayashi films.

Biography submitted by Jehan

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