Although not obvious in the movies they made together, he was taller than Toshiro Mifune. He was also one of the few Japanese actors who could stand eye to eye with the almost six-foot-tall director Akira Kurosawa.
Japanese cinema was very focused on capturing both the ordinary and the extraordinary, so a lot of the things that we captured tended to be existentialist, as well. In the films, there were influences by Camus or Sartre, different philosophers. In ...
Distinctive voice with nuanced delivery.
The Snake
Motohisa Nakadai
Tokyo, Japan