Tatsuya Nakadai, who has died aged 92, was an actor who became one of postwar Japanese cinema’s most significant leading men; ...

With the death of Tatsuya Nakadai at age 92 in Tokyo on Nov. 8, the world lost the last of Japan’s golden-age movie stars and one of cinema’s greatest actors. A mighty foil to the screen giant Toshiro ...

Mr. Nakadai, an actor rivaled only by Toshiro Mifune as the best-known star of 20th-century Japanese cinema, died Nov. 8.

He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.