Tōru Nakamura (actor)

Toru Nakamura (仲村 トオル, Nakamura Tōru, born September 5, 1965) is a Japanese actor. His real name is Tōru Nakamura (中村 亨, Nakamura Tōru).

Toru Nakamura
仲村 トオル
Born	Tōru Nakamura (中村 亨, Nakamura Tōru) (1965-09-05) September 5, 1965 (age 57) Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985–present
Spouse	Isako Washio
Children	1

Career

Nakamura co-starred in Bok Geo-il's 2009 Lost Memories along with Jang Dong-gun^[1] and in Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly with Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye.^[2]

He co-starred in Junji Sakamoto's 2010 film Strangers in the City with Manami Konishi.^[3]

Filmography

Film

• Be-Bop High School (1985)
• Shinshi Domei (1986)
• Bee Bop High School: Koko Yotaro Elegy (1986)
• Bee Bop High School: Koko Yotaro Kyoso-kyoku (1987)
• Bee Bop High School: Koko Yotaro March (1987)
• Bee Bop High School: Koko Yotaro Kanketsu-hen (1988)
• Getting Blue in Color (1988)
• Bee Bop High School: Koko Yotaro Ondo (1988)
• Memories of You (1988)
• Roppongi Banana Boys (1989)
• The Passage to Japan (1991)
• New York Cop (1993)
• Blue Tiger (1994)
• Last Friends (1995)
• Gen-X Cops (1999)
• Tokyo Raiders (2000)
• Unloved (2001)
• 2009 Lost Memories (2002)
• Hana (2003)
• Purple Butterfly (2003)
• Sea Cat (2004)
• Blue Swallow (2005)
• Madamada Abunai Deka (2005)
• Limit of Love: Umizaru (2006)
• Thank You (2006)
• Waruboro (2007)
• Aozora no Roulette (2007)
• Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
• Love Never to End (2007)
• The Kiss (2007)
• Nagai Nagai Satsujin (2008)
• K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008)
• Shaolin Girl (2008)
• Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
• I Give My First Love to You (2009)
• It's on Me (2009)
• The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones to Serenity (2009)
• Oppai Volleyball (2009)
• Strangers in the City (2010)
• Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo (2010)
• Kamifusen (2011)
• A Chorus of Angels (2012)
• Kerberos no Shouzou (2014)
• Memoirs of a Murderer (2017), Sendō
• Love Mooning (2021), Takashi Takizawa^[4]
• Kumo to Saru no Kazoku (2023)^[5]

Television

• Abunai Deka (1986)
• Kattenishiyagare Hey! Brother (1989)
• Nobunaga: King of Zipang (1992), Hashiba Hideyoshi
• Ryūkyū no Kaze (1993), Hashiba Hideyoshi
• Nemureru Mori (1998)
• Dear Tsugumi (2000)
• Ninjo Shigure Machi (2001)
• Kokoro Shoshu Hen (2003)
• Ashita Tenki ni Naare (2003)
• Destiny of Love (2004)
• Black Leather Notebook (2004)
• Umizaru (2005)
• Emergency Room 24 Hours 3 (2005)
• Animal Trail (2006)
• The Family (2007)^[6]
• Kaze no Hate (2007)
• 4 Lies (2008)
• Team Batista no Eikō (2008)
• The Flying Tire (2009)
• General Rouge no Gaisen (2010)
• Ariadne no Dangan (2011)
• Suitei Yuzai (2012)
• Raden Meikyuu (2014)
• Kaiki Renai Sakusen (2015)
• Two Homelands (2019), Taketora Matsui
• Nemesis (2021)^[7]
• Japan Sinks: People of Hope (2021), Eiichi Higashiyama

References

1. Gonzalez, Ed (16 November 2004). "Purple Butterfly - Film Review - Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine.
2. Catsoulis, Jeannette (20 May 2005). "2009 LOST MEMORIES". The New York Times.
3. Schilling, Mark (19 November 2010). "'Yukizuri no Machi (Strangers in the City)' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
4. "万田邦敏監督新作「愛のまなざしを」に仲村トオル×杉野希妃×斎藤工×中村ゆり". eiga.com. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
5. "クモとサルの家族". eiga.com. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
6. "華麗なる一族". MBS. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
7. "仲村トオル、真木よう子、山崎紘菜、石黒賢が「ネメシス」出演、事件の鍵握る役". Natalie. Retrieved March 17, 2021.

External links

• Tōru Nakamura at IMDb
• Tōru Nakamura at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)