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Acclaimed Japanese actor Nakadai dies at 92

Photo taken in July 2019 in Tokyo shows a portrait of Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai. Nakadai, who starred in Akira Kurosawa films, including "Kagemusha" (The Shadow Warrior), which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, died of Pneumonia on Nov. 8, 2025, aged 92.

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Acclaimed Japanese actor Nakadai dies at 92

Photo taken in July 2019 in Tokyo shows a portrait of Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai. Nakadai, who starred in Akira Kurosawa films, including "Kagemusha" (The Shadow Warrior), which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, died of Pneumonia on Nov. 8, 2025, aged 92.

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Acclaimed Japanese actor Nakadai dies at 92

Photo taken in Tokyo's Shimbashi area on Nov. 11, 2025, shows a digital news board reporting the death of Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai. Nakadai, who starred in Akira Kurosawa films, including "Kagemusha" (The Shadow Warrior), which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, died of Pneumonia on Nov. 8, 2025, aged 92.

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Japanese actor Nakadai introduces film festival in L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai (C) speaks about movies to be shown at a Japanese film festival at a press conference in Los Angeles on May 9, 2014.

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The Sword Of Doom - film (1966)

Tatsuya Nakadai Poster Characters: Ryunosuke Tsukue Film: The Sword Of Doom; Dai-Bosatsu Toge (1967) Director: Kihachi Okamoto 25 February 1966 Date: 25-Feb-66

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Harakiri - film (1962)

Tatsuya Nakadai Characters: Hanshiro Tsugumo Film: Harakiri (1960) Director: Masaki Kobayashi 16 September 1962 Date: 16-Sep-62

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SEPPUKU

SEPPUKU aka HARAKIRI TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1962

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI holding KOTA YUI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA centre TATSUYA NAKADAI KAGEMUSHA Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA centre TATSUYA NAKADAI KAGEMUSHA Date: 1980

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KAGEMUSHA TATSUYA NAKADAI KAGEMUSHA Date: 1980

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Nakadai, leading Japanese actor, to receive Order of Culture

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's leading actors, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2015, after he was chosen as a recipient of the 2015 Order of Culture, Japan's top award for contributions to the development of culture. He will receive the award from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace on the Cultural Day national holiday on Nov. 3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nakadai, leading Japanese actor, to receive Order of Culture

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's leading actors, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2015, after he was chosen as a recipient of the 2015 Order of Culture, Japan's top award for contributions to the development of culture. He will receive the award from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace on the Cultural Day national holiday on Nov. 3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Small firm takes lead in industrial waste recycling as high as 99%

Sumiyuki Nakadai, executive managing director of industrial waste treatment firm Nakadai Co., explains the process to reuse wooden furniture material as fuel for a biomass power plant on Feb. 13, 2017, at the company's recycling plant in the city of Maebashi, north of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Small firm takes lead in industrial waste recycling as high as 99%

Factory workers at Nakadai Co.'s recycling plant in the city of Maebashi, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 13, 2017, sort plastic parts from printed circuit boards for clients to efficiently extract copper, gold and other metals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Nobel laureates among others receiving Order of Culture award

Recipients of this year's Order of Culture -- (From L) Neuroscientist Shigetada Nakanishi, optical communications scientist Yasuharu Suematsu, dyeing and weaving expert Fukumi Shimura, legal scholar Hiroshi Shiono, and Satoshi Omura and Takaaki Kajita, winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and physics respectively -- pose for a group photo at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2015, following the award ceremony with Emperor Akihito in attendance. Another recipient, leading actor Tatsuya Nakadai, was absent from the ceremony due to his tight stage schedule. Japan's top award for contributions to the development of culture is given annually on Nov. 3, Japan's Culture Day, a national holiday. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo