Tatsuya Nakadai, an actor praised by directors Kobayashi and Kurosawa, has died at the age of 92.

Japanese theater and film actors Tatsuya Nakadai A person who appeared in a series of Akira Kurosawa films such as. “run”, According to his theater school, he passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92.

Mr. Nakadai gained fame in Japan. … And internationally, I would like to express my gratitude to director Masaki Kobayashi.cast him in The Human Condition, an epic anti-war trilogy set in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nakadai’s theater school, Mumeijuku, has not disclosed the timing or details of Nakadai’s death.

Nakadai played a supporting role in Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece. “Seven Samurai,” but after Mifune later went his own way, he essentially replaced Toshiro Mifune as the famous director’s regular lead. The protagonist of Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Actor too In “Ran,” he played a general destined to divide the kingdom into two children.A 1985 film directed by Kurosawa based on Shakespeare’s play King Lear. Nakadai co-starred with Mifune in Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai film Yojimbo, and also worked with other directors such as Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kon Ichikawa.

In 1975, he and his late wife, actress Yasuko Miyazaki, founded Mumeijuku, a private drama school and theater troupe with the purpose of nurturing the next generation.