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• Name: 中村錦之助
• Name (romaji): Nakamura Kinnosuke
• Also known as: Yorozuya Kinnosuke / 萬屋錦之介
• Real name: 小川錦一 / Ogawa Kinichi
• Profession: Actor
• Birthdate: 1932-Nov-20
• Death: 1997-Mar-10

TV Shows

• Hana no Ran (NHK, 1994)
• Yaburegasa Toshu Akunin-gari (TV Asahi, 1974-1977)
• Haru no Sakamichi (NHK, 1971)

Movies

• Mito Komon (TOEI, 1957)
• Miyamoto Musashi (TOEI, 1961)

Trivia

• Specialty: Kabuki, chanbara/jidaigeki films
• While contracted at TOEI, Nakamura was the chairman of the TOEI actors' union. He also starred in over 100 TOEI movies - most of which were chanbara films.
• Nakamura was president of Nakamura Productions.

External Links

• Japanese Wikipedia
• English Wikipedia