Tatsuya Nakadai, beloved star of Japan’s golden age of cinema and a frequent collaborator of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, has died aged 92.

Mr. Nakadai, an actor rivaled only by Toshiro Mifune as the best-known star of 20th-century Japanese cinema, died Nov. 8.

He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.

Nakadai also played the doomed warlord who divides his kingdom between his sons in "Ran", Kurosawa's 1985 film based on the ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi ...

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