Noboru Nakamura

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1913-08-04

Deathday 1981-05-20 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As Нобору Накамура

Noboru Nakamura

Biography

Noboru Nakamura (中村登, Nakamura Noboru, 4 August 1913 – 20 May 1981) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University Faculty of Letters in 1936, Nakamura joined the Shochiku film studios, working as an assistant director for Torajirō Saitō and Yasujirō Shimazu. He debuted as director in 1941 with Life and Rhythm, and finally received recognition with his 1951 film Home Sweet Home. His most noted works include the Yasunari Kawabata adaptation Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963), The Kii River (1966) and Portrait of Chieko (1967). Both Twin Sisters of Kyoto and Portrait of Chieko were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nakamura was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class.

Known For

Director

1979
Nichiren

as Director

1974
Sanbaba

as Director

1973
Omoi Bashi

as Director

1971
Love and Death

as Director

1971
1968
My Destiny

as Director

1967
Portrait of Chieko

as Director

1967
1966
The Kii River

as Director

1964
The Shape of Night

as Director

1964
1963
1963
Double Wedding

as Director

1962
Kyūjin ryokō

as Director

1962
A Roaring Trade

as Director

1962
Flower in a Storm

as Director

1962
Zoku aizen katsura

as Director

1961
Women of Tokyo

as Director

1961
The Estuary

as Director

1960
Irohanihoheto

as Director

1960
Towering Waves

as Director

1957
1955
1955
A Woman's Life

as Director

1954
Edo no yubae

as Director

1953
Dreaming People

as Director

1952
The Waves

as Director

1951
Home Sweet Home

as Director

1942
Otoko no iki

as Director

Writer

1979
Nichiren

as Screenplay

1967
Three Faces of Love

as Screenplay

1967
Portrait of Chieko

as Screenplay

1964
Our Happiness Alone

as Screenplay

1957
1953
Dreaming People

as Screenplay

1942
Otoko no iki

as Writer

Actor

1953
Zoku jūdai no seiten

as Tateuo Ueda