Akira Nakao
Acting
Biography
Akira Nakao (中尾 彬, Nakao Akira, born August 11, 1942) is a Japanese actor, TV personality, and artist from Kisarazu, Chiba. Nakao is represented by the Furutachi Project agency. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Nakao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 11, 1942
Place of Birth: Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Hideyoshi
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.
Baian the Assassin
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them.
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanese financier Masahiko Washizu to do the job with only one instruction: buy them cheap and sell them high.
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanese financier Masahiko Washizu to do the job with only one instruction: buy them cheap and sell them high.
Yoshitsune
Yoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11 December 2005, with a three-part special compilation being aired from 24 December to 25 December 2005. The 44th Taiga Drama, the original work is by Miyao Tomiko, screenplay by Kaneko Narito and starring Hideaki Takizawa.
Tsukahara Bokuden
Takahara is a legendary figure in the Warring States Period of Japan. He was born in Kagoshima, the sacred place of sword. He learned the art of Taidao in Kagoshima from childhood. He had faced many life-and-death battles in his life, but he had never been injured at one time. In this new play, the story will be unfolded centering on the youth period of Sakahara, which has never been shown on the big screen before.
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Eikichi Onizuka, former gang leader, becomes a teacher of a class of students who torment their teachers and fellow students. Of course they do not do this out of whim, they have their reasons. Onizuka is charged by the chairlady to help these troubled students into a more healthy adulthood, and help rehabilitate the teachers in the process as well.
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
The Vulture
A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A Japanese financier/former vulture Masahiko Washizu is recruited to fight the threat.
1750 Days of Turbulence
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
Filmography
as Udagawa Dougen
as Kenzo Hakuhodo
as Akira Nakao
as Self
as Mokichi
as Tetsuya Kurobe（黒部 徹也）
as Tomita
as 島原総一郎
as Sozui Ise
as Kenichi Kurusu
as Ryosuke Iijima
as Risuke Kuramochi
as Ryousuke Iijima
as Iijima Ryosuke
as Kajiwara Kagetoki
as Original Gotengo Commander
as Premier Hayoto Igarashi
as 2003 Prime Minister Hayato Igarashi
as Kosaburo Chuganji
as Hirofumi Arikawa
as Fujibei Fukiya
as Hiroshi Uchiyamada
as Hiroshi Uchiyamada
as 藤堂 壮介（Sousuke Toudou）
as Shoji Yazaki
as Shibata Katsuie
as Commander Takaki Aso
as Michizo Sakurada
as Principal Dokudai Tokiaritsune
as Colonel Takaaki Aso
as Commander Takaki Aso
as First Investigation Division Chief
as Yorinobu Tokugawa
as Shichirôemon Obata
as Kuroda Tsunamasa
as Ichitaro Akimoto
as Maki Katsumori
as Yajima
as Maruyama
as Akiyama
as Genzō Hibiki
as Tamon Tatebe
as Dongo Matsunaga
as Tenbo
as Tôru Ishizawa
as Morie Osakabe
as Isogai Sanshiro
as Detective Maruyama
as Mondonosuke
as Amano
as 関川重雄
as Kosuke Kindaichi
as Kada Shuhei
as Sozo Emura
as Second elder brother of Kaoru
as Hiroshi Takagi
as Fujii
as Takeshi Tsurukawa
as Osamu
as Bartender at the "Toto" bar
as Student