Sanae Nakahara Explained

Sanae Nakahara
Birth Date:July 31, 1935
Birth Place:Yotsuya Ward, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Death Place:Tokyo, Japan
Notable Works:Yagyu Clan Conspiracy, Lady Snowblood, Day of Resurrection
Spouse:Kinji Fukasaku
Children:Kenta Fukasaku

Sanae Nakahara (Japanese: 中原早苗; July 31, 1935 – May 15, 2012)[1] was a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She starred in over 80 films and television shows, the most prominent being her role in the films Lady Snowblood (1973), Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978), and Day of Resurrection (1980). Her husband was famed Japanese film director Kinji Fukasaku, and her son, Kenta Fukasaku, is another well-known Japanese film director.

Early life and education

She graduated from the Kunimoto Girls' High School.[2] Her mother was a stage actress and raised her after divorcing her father.

Career

She first starred in the film Mura Hachibu while still in high school, a film about the Shizuoka Prefecture Ueno village ostracism incident.[3] Two years later she signed an exclusive contract with Japanese movie studio Nikkatsu, appearing in films such as Season of the Sun. She appeared in around 80 works over the next 8 years before becoming independent and acting for other studios.

Her most recent work had mainly been appearances on stage.

Personal life

Nakahara married Kinji Fukasaku, who at the time was a young director at Toei. They had no meetings and he gave her no acting guidance, but after the film he took, as she described, a furious approach with letters and phone calls. They decided to get married after being together only 3 months.[4] Whenever he directed his own starring actresses, the media was taken with stories of the crisis of their marriage. She continued to support her husband’s filmmaking.[5]

Death

Nakahara died in her home on May 15, 2012. An apartment manager, at the request of her son, entered her home and found her collapsed in the bathroom. Doctors confirmed her death at the hospital[6] with the cause of death being heart failure.

Filmography

Actress

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sanae Nakahara. IMDb. 2019-12-09.
  2. Web site: 中原早苗. Baidu. 2019-12-09.
  3. Web site: 女優・中原早苗さん死去…深作欣二監督の妻、76歳. ZAKZAK. ja-JP. 2019-12-09.
  4. Web site: 深作追悼特集上映のトークゲストに妻の中原早苗さんが登場!深作との出会いを語る – CINEMATOPICS. ja. 2019-12-10.
  5. Web site: 女優・中原早苗さん死去…深作欣二監督の妻、76歳. ZAKZAK. ja-JP. 2019-12-10.
  6. Web site: 故深作欣二監督夫人で女優 中原早苗さん76歳で死去. www.sponichi.co.jp. 2012-05-19. 2019-12-10.