In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of 'everyone's masterpieces.' He worked closely with directors including Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi.
, died on Saturday at the age of 92. His collaborations with some of the greatest directors in Japan cemented him as an icon of the"Golden Age" of Japanese cinema.Nakadai began his career as a theater actor, and remained committed to the stage throughout his life — in part because, unlike many actors at the time, he declined to sign an exclusive contract with a film studio.
Doing so also gave him freedom to take on different roles — in samurai epics, realist dramas, crime thrillers, and even science fiction — and work with many different directors over the course of his career., the film that also happens to be the actor's most revered internationally, he played the lead in Masaki Kobayashi's trilogy. The series stars Nakadai as a pacifist soldier in World War II-era Japan. He credited much of his success to Kobayashi, whom he regarded as a mentor."While I'm greatly indebted to Kurosawa," he told the Criterion Channel inwhich took around four years to complete, Nakadai continued to work with Kurosawa. He starred alongside Toshiro Mifune, another legend of Japanese cinema, in, Nakadai's partnership with Kobayashi came to a crescendo. The 1962 film stars Nakadai as a lone samurai asking a local lord for permission to commit harakiri, a form of ritual suicide. The actor used a stylized storytelling voice to play the character as he narrates the events that led to his downfall, evoking kabuki, a form of traditional Japanese theater. In a 2005, Nakadai described the film as a"drama of dialogue," which allowed him to apply what he'd learned on the stage to his performance on screen. No surprise, then, that the actor, who considered theater acting his primary profession, favored. Although he was only in his fifties, Nakadai starred as the aging warlord Hidetora Ichimonji, donning heavy makeup in order to fully embody the character.The plentiful opportunities that Nakadai enjoyed as an actor came with a great deal of pressure."For me, my twenties were like climbing Mount Fuji with a heavy load on my back, huffing and puffing," he said in 2005."It felt like I was climbing, and the heavy load was everyone's masterpieces." The"heavy load" he bore as a significant contributor to the growth of Japanese cinema has not been overlooked in Japan. In 1996, he was awarded Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon, honoring those with achievements in arts and academics, and in 2015, the emperor granted him the Order of Culture, the highest honor bestowed upon citizens with major achievements in the arts and sciences.
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