| Nobuo Kawai | |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Yearsactive: | 1959–2003 |
was a Japanese actor. He is most famous for playing villains and appeared in many jidaigeki and detective television dramas as a guest.[1] [2] [3] He was a member of Yukio Mishima's Roman Gekijo Theatre Company.[4]
He died of cerebral infarction at the age of 74.[1]
Kawai voice type is baritone as a voice actor, he has been active since the early days of ateleco, dubbing James Dean and Marlon Brando in western movies, and playing orthodox roles that are the opposite of the villain image shown in period dramas. In particular, Paul Newman's dubbing was almost exclusively done by him because of his "similar mood". He was also in charge of dubbing Toshiro Mifune in the western film Red Sun, when Mifune himself asked him to "do it by all".
In private, he was a very friendly and calm person, not to be seen in Edo period dramas (children who were going to walk in the street shouted "He's a bad officer!" Even if he was called out, he never looked disgusting, and he answered by waving with a smile.) Kawai himself said, "Even if the children didn't know my name, they just looked at my face and said, 'He's a bad officer in a Edo period drama!'" I'm very happy as an actor."