is a Japanese actor and personality from Kisarazu, Chiba

Kisarazu, Chiba

is a city located in Chiba, Japan. As of September 2010, Kisarazu has an estimated population of 126,906 and a density of 915 persons per km². The total area was 138.73 km²....

, Japan. He graduated from Chiba Prefectural Kisarazu High School and attended Musashino Art University

Musashino Art University

is a university in Kodaira, western Tokyo founded in 1962 and has roots going back to 1929.Teikoku Art School was founded in 1929; in 1948 it became Musashino Art School , and in 1962 it became Musashino Art University...

. Nakao is a member of the Furutachi Project agency.

He has made appearances in jidaigeki

Jidaigeki

is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...

and contemporary dramas on television and film, as well as variety shows. Fans of Abarenbō Shōgun

Abarenbo Shogun

is a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun. The program started in 1978 under the title Yoshimune Hyōbanki: Abarenbō Shōgun...

immediately recognize him as the scheming Tokugawa Muneharu

Tokugawa Muneharu

was a daimyo in Japan during the Edo period. He was the seventh Tokugawa lord of the Owari Domain, and one of the gosanke.- Biography :Muneharu was the 20th son of Tokugawa Tsunanari by a concubine, and a great-great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu...

, arch-rival of the eighth shogun Yoshimune

Tokugawa Yoshimune

was the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu.-Lineage:...

. He played the role for twenty years. Film appearances include five episodes in the series Gokudō no Onna-tachi and six Godzilla

Godzilla

is a daikaijū, a Japanese movie monster, first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games,...

 movies. He also acted in the Jūzō Itami

Juzo Itami

, born , was an actor and a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture....

 film Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

Minbo

is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion, The Gangster's Moll and The Anti-Extortion Woman. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical success internationally...

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Filmography

• Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
  Minbo
  is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion, The Gangster's Moll and The Anti-Extortion Woman. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical success internationally...
  
  (1992)
• Hagetaka: The Movie (The Vulture) (2009)
• Inu to Anata no Monogatari
  Inu to Anata no Monogatari
  is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Shunichi Nagasaki and it is the sequel to the 2005 film All About My Dog. It opened in Japanese cinemas on 21 January 2011.-Cast:* Akira Nakao* Atsuko Takahata* Chiharu* Katsuhisa Namase* Kie Kitano* Maki Sakai...
  
  (2011)

External links

• Akira Nakao at Toho Kingdom