Mansai Nomura
Birthday: 1966-04-05
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Nomura Mansai II (二世 野村 萬斎, Nisei Nomura Mansai, born April 5, 1966 under the name Takeshi Nomura (野村 武司, Nomura Takeshi)) is a well known Kyogen stage actor, and film actor. He played Abe no seimei in Onmyoji and Onmyoji 2, an original work by Baku Yumemakura. He received the Best Actor prize at the Blue Ribbon Awards for his work in Onmyoji.
Movies
Onmyoji
During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on...
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Onmyoji II
A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Ja...
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Revolver LILY
In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. The...
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The Floating Castle
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unify...
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未来へ 伝統×最先端が挑む日本最古の舞 ～狂言師・野村萬斎×真鍋大度の挑戦～
Kyogen performer Nomura Mansai's speciality, Sanbaso, is said to be the oldest form of Shinto ritual...
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野村萬斎×シェイクスピア～密着・５０歳にして挑む新たな「マクベス」
The programme closely follows the birth of a new 'Macbeth' and his journey around Shakespeare. Kyoge...
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おやじの背中～野村万作・萬斎・裕基 父子3代物語
Kyogen performers Mansaku Nomura, Mansai and Yuki, three generations of father and son! Kyogen is a ...
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六百年の「今」を舞う～狂言師・野村萬斎
Kyogen performer Mansai Nomura is taking on the challenge of various attempts to convey the appeal o...
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小さな狂言師 誕生～野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台～
Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai's eldest son, Yuki (3 years old at the time), was chosen to play the role...
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Kono atari no mono
Documentary by film director Isshin Inudo on three generations of the Nomura family of the Izumi sch...
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The Living Tradition of Nomura Kyogen: From Mansaku to Mansai to Yuki
A new documentary film on traditional culture, planned and produced by the Pola Foundation for the P...
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The Three Generations of the Nomura Kyogen Family
The three generations of the Nomura family - Mansaku, Mansai and Yuki - who carry the 650-year histo...
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オイディプス王
Oedipus, a prince of Corinth, was prophesied to "kill his father and marry his mother." To avoid the...
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Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
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What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister
In the year 2020, when Covid-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, chaos ensues and people's dai...
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Shin Godzilla
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scra...
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Air Bound
Gamba, a town mouse with a brave spirit decides to go on an adventure to discover the ocean. On his ...
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Flower and Sword
In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...
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What the War Meant
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during Wo...
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The Wind Rises
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...
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Murder on the Orient Express
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express"....
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The Murder of Kuroido
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death...
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Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen
This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yos...
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Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto
This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading pre...
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Promise of death
Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is a...
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