Overview
- Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported the death of Tatsuya Nakadai at age 92, confirming the news on November 11.
- Some outlets, citing a source close to his agency via TBS News Dig and Kyodo reporting, say he died of pneumonia in Tokyo at 00:25 on November 8, while NHK did not specify a cause.
- Nakadai’s landmark roles included Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition trilogy and Harakiri, as well as Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha and Ran.
- Across roughly 200 stage, film and television productions, he became a defining presence of modern Japanese acting and a touchstone for international cinephiles.
- Honors included Person of Cultural Merit (2007) and the Order of Culture (2015), and reports note a private funeral limited to close family.