Eiji Nakano

Eiji Nakano
中野英治
Eiga Nakano in 1935
Born	Eisaburō Nakano (1904-12-05)December 5, 1904 Kure, Hiroshima, Japan
Died	September 6, 1990(1990-09-06) (aged 85)
Occupation	Actor

Eiji Nakano (中野 英治, Nakano Eiji, 5 December 1904 – 6 September 1990) was a Japanese film actor.

Career

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Nakano attended Hōsei University, but left before graduating.^[1] When he was playing for the Nikkatsu amateur baseball team, he was scouted as an actor and made his debut in 1925 in Daichi wa hohoemu.^[1][2] While becoming one of Japan's main romantic leads, Nakano moved from Nikkatsu to Teikoku Kinema to Shinkō Kinema to Daiichi Eiga and other studios, and starred in films directed by such masters as Kenji Mizoguchi, Tomu Uchida, Daisuke Itō, and Tomotaka Tasaka, among others. In 1941, he formed his own production company, Nakano Eiji Productions, and directed the film Shōgun.^[1] After World War II, he ceased appearing in movies until the 1970s, when he appeared in films such as Kaneto Shindo's documentary on Kenji Mizoguchi, Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director.

Selected filmography

• Daichi wa hohoemu (1925)
• Orizuru Osen (1935)
• Shōgun (1941) (director)
• Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)

References

1. "Nakano Eiji". Kotobank (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
2. Chieo, Yoshida (1979). "Nakano Eiji". Nihon eiga haiyū zenshū: danyū hen (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kinema Junpō. pp. 408–411.

External links

• Eiji Nakano at IMDb
• Eiji Nakano at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)