Shidō Nakamura II | |
Native Name: | 二代目中村獅童 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Birth Name: | Mikihiro Ogawa |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Spouse: | |
Children: | 3 |
Father: | Nakamura Shidō I |
Relatives: | Nakamura Karoku I (great-great-grandfather) Nakamura Karoku III (great-grandfather) Nakamura Tokizō III (grandfather) Yorozuya Kinnosuke (uncle) Nakamura Kashō II (uncle) Nakamura Tokizō IV (uncle) Nakamura Tokizō V (cousin) Nakamura Matagorō III (cousin) Nakamura Karoku V (cousin) Nakamura Kinnosuke II (cousin) Nakamura Baishi IV (cousin) Nakamura Mantarō (cousin) Nakamura Kashō IV (cousin) Nakamura Tanenosuke (cousin) Nakamura Yonekichi V (cousin) Nakamura Ryūnosuke (cousin) Nakamura Hayato I (cousin) Nakamura Tanetarō V (cousin) Nakamura Hidenosuke (cousin) |
Occupation: | Kabuki and film actor |
Years Active: | 1989–present |
Credits: | Ryuk in Death Note, Dragon in Ping Pong |
Website: | http://www.shidou.jp/ |
, better known by the stage name, is a Japanese kabuki and film actor.
Born in Tokyo, the son of kabuki actor Nakamura Shidō I, young Nakamura made his kabuki debut at the age of eight. He took the name Shidō the following year, following his father's retirement. Twenty-one years later, despite being a relative latecomer to the silver screen, the 30-year-old Kabuki actor was in his first film, Ping Pong (2002), in which he portrayed a skin-headed, demonically intense table tennis champion nicknamed Dragon. His film debut won Nakamura a Best Newcomer award at the 2003 Japanese Academy Awards. Since then, Nakamura has starred in a string of high-profile movies as well as TV dramas.
In May 2017, he announced that he will take a hiatus for his lung cancer treatment.[1]
Nakamura came to international attention in 2004 after starring in the highly successful romance film Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu (Be With You) with Yūko Takeuchi, the two stars playing a couple separated by death. The two married after filming was complete, on 10 May 2005, and eventually divorced on 29 February 2008.
In the Hong Kong/China martial arts movie Fearless starring international kung fu star Jet Li, and set in 1910s Imperial China, Nakamura plays a Japanese martial artist who is Jet Li's final opponent. He also starred in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima.
Nakamura is the voice of Yoshitaka Mine, Chairman of the Hakuho Clan in Yakuza 3 (released in Japan as .
Year | English title | Role | Notes | |
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2002 | Ping Pong | Dragon | [2] | |
2003 | Like Asura | Shizuo Katsumata | ||
Iden & Tity | Johnny | |||
2004 | Be With You | Takumi | Lead role | |
One Piece: Curse of the Sacred Sword | Saga (voice) | |||
Akasen | Izō | Lead role | ||
My Lover Is a Sniper: The Movie | Fan Huoqing | |||
2005 | Yamato | Mamoru Uchida | ||
All About My Dog | Kentaro Yamada | |||
The Neighbor No. Thirteen | No. 13 | Lead role | ||
One Stormy Night | Gabu (voice) | |||
2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Lieutenant Ito | American film | |
Fearless | Anno Tanaka | |||
Death Note | Ryuk (voice) | |||
Honey and Clover | Repairer | |||
2007 | GeGeGe no Kitaro | Great Tengu Judge | ||
Cha Cha, The Heavenly Woman | ||||
Red Cliff | Gan Xing | Chinese film | ||
Zero (voice) | ||||
Ryuk (voice) | ||||
Ichi | Banki | |||
2009 | Silver Rain | Shoji Iwai | ||
2010 | Leonie | |||
2011 | Ninja Kids!!! | Rantaro's father | ||
Hard Romantic-er | Takagi | |||
2013 | Gatchaman | Iriya | Special appearance | [3] |
Tenshin | [4] | |||
2014 | Silver Spoon | Miyuki Nakajima | [5] | |
2015 | Furiko | Daisuke Hasegawa | Lead role | [6] |
Terminal | Ichiryū Ōshita | [7] | ||
2016 | Twisted Justice | Kuroiwa | [8] | |
Ryuk (voice) | [9] | |||
2018 | The Blood of Wolves | Takafumi Kōsaka | ||
2020 | Mio's Cookbook | Mataji | [10] | |
Signal 100 | Shimobe | [11] | ||
2021 | Character | Makabe | [12] | |
Last of the Wolves | Takafumi Kōsaka | [13] | ||
2023 | The Village | Mitsuyoshi Ōhashi | [14] | |
Monster | Kiyotaka | [15] | ||
Kubi | Naniwa Mosuke | [16] | ||
Lumberjack the Monster | Takeshi Kenmochi | [17] | ||
2024 | Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality | [18] | ||