On November 12th at 1pm, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) will air a special tribute to actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who passed away on the 8th at the age of 92 due to pneumonia. The program will remember Nakadai through rare footage from the past.
Nakadai entered the Haiyuza Training School in 1952. He made his full-fledged film debut in 1956 with "Phoenix." He went on to star in films such as "The Human Condition" and "Seppuku" (both directed by Kobayashi Masaki), "Yojimbo" and "Kagemusha" (both directed by Kurosawa Akira). The films he starred in have won awards at the Academy Awards and all three of the world's major film festivals (Cannes, Venice, and Berlin). In 1975, he founded the "Mumeijuku" (Unknown School) with his wife, actress and director Kyoko Miyazaki (who passed away in 1996). He devoted himself to nurturing the next generation of actors, and has produced such stars as Yakusho Koji and Wakamura Mayumi.
On stage, he has starred in many Shakespearean plays, including "Hamlet" and "Macbeth." Since 2005, he has co-starred with Tomoko Naraoka of the Mingei Theatre Company in "Driving Miss Daisy," which won the Arts Festival Grand Prize for Best Play. In the fall of 2014, at the age of 81, he took on the challenge of a one-man play, "Barrymore."
*The episode featuring Ogura Soga, which was scheduled to air on November 12th, is now scheduled to air on December 17th.
