
Kiichi Nakai
Biography
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Kiichi Nakai (born 18 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. His father, Keiji Sada, also a movie actor, died when Nakai was only two years old. Nakai started his acting career while he was still in university and was awarded the Rookie of the Year of Japan Academy Awards in 1981.
He won the Japan Academy Best Supporting Actor award in 1994 (for 47 Ronin) and Best Actor award in 2003 (for Mibu gishi den (When the Last Sword is Drawn). He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 19th Hochi Film Award for 47 Ronin.
In 2003 he played a Japanese delegate to a Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty in Warriors of Heaven and Earth. Though a few of his lines are in Japanese, most are in Mandarin.
His older sister, Kie Nakai, is also an actress.
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Acting History
2025
YUKIKAZE
2025Second to Last Love 3 as 长仓和平
2024Silence of the Sea as Suiken
2024Haha no Matsu Sato
2023We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams as Norio Koike
2022The Travel Nurse as Kuki Shizuka
2022Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
2022「銀座ゴルフ倶楽部 presented by テーラーメイド」
2021Kareinaru ichizoku as Manpyo Daisuke
2020劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編
2020Kyouen NG as Toyama Eiji
2020We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous as Norio Koike
2019風博士
2019Hit Me Anyone One More Time as Keisuke Kuroda
2019Aircraft Carrier Ibuki as Keiichi Nakano, convenience store manager
2018Memory as Hidehisa Honjo
2018娘の結婚
2018We Make Antiques! as Norio Koike
2017Flower and Sword as Nobunaga Oda
2016Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
2016Good Morning Show as Shingo Sumida
2016Ken San as Narrator
2016Kinpika as Kenta Sakaguchi
2016Kinpika as 阪口健太
2015Again as Haruhiko Sakacho
2014Snow on The Blades as Kingo Shimura
2014Time Never Stops as Ryosuke Saigo
2013Kumokiri Nizaemon as Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013SWITCH Interview Masters
2012Second to Last Love
2012Priceless as Kengo Moai
2012中国文明の謎
2012Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer as Mitsukuni Mito
2012Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012The Wings of the Kirin as Takeaki Aoyagi
2012Second to Last Love as Nagakura Wahei
2012Taira no Kiyomori as Taira no Tadamori
2012Taira no Kiyomori
2011Wild 7
2011A Flawless Concierge as Osano
2011Short Cut
2011Once in a Blue Moon as Osano
2011Princess Toyotomi as Koichi Sanada
2011Lunch ON! as Self (narration)
2011The Warring States as King of Qi
2010Railways as Hajime Tsutsui
2010The History of Our Family as Jyuichi Shishimaru
2010Pro Bono as Sawaki
2009Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess as Hiroshi Kataoka
2009Smile as Ito Kazuma
2008Garden of the Wind as Sadami Shiratori
2008Samurai Gangsters as Jirocho Shimizu
2008The Magic Hour as Toru Iwata
2007Phoenix
2007Hero as Akihiko Takida
2007Barefoot Gen as Daikichi Nakaoka
2007はだしのゲン as 中岡 大吉
2007Dororo as Kagemitsu Daigo
2006HERO SP as Akihiko Takida / 泷田明彦
2006Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company
2005Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles as Kenichi Takata (voice)
2005A Hardest Night!! as Hashita
2005Aegis as Yong Fa
2005Yoshitsune as Kamakura's first Sho-Gun
2003Onmyoji II as Genkaku
2003Rockers
2003Warriors of Heaven and Earth as Lai Qi
2003When the Last Sword Is Drawn as Kanichiro Yoshimura
2003Musashi as Munenori Yagyu
2002Shura Group Part 2
2002Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
2002Shura Group
2002Shura Group Part 3
2002Shura Group Part 1
2001Love From a Lie
2001The Firefly
2001Bring Me to the Hotel
2001Darkness in the Light as Makoto Sasano
2000Tales of the Unusual as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
2000Shinsengumi
1999玩具の神様
1999Owls' Castle as Tsuzura Juzo
1999Semi-double as Sho Jinguji
1999Zankyo
1998Falling into the Evening as Shibata
1998Begging for Love as Fumio Chin
1998Love Letter
1996I Miss Age 35
1995Love Still Hasn't Begun
1995MARKS as Yuichiro Goda
1995Fusa
199447 Ronin as Matashiro Irobe
1994Good Mourning
1994Natsuko no Sake as 佐伯康男
1993Marriage as Masahiko Tendo
1993Jaja uma narashi as Ryuichiro Yamada
1993Moving as Kenichi
1992Unmei no gyakuten: Nusuma reta kigyô himitsu!
1992Gekashitsu as Kiyonaga
1991Yakuza Warfare
1990Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
19901750 Days of Turbulence
1990Tokyo Heaven as Fumio Amamiya
1990Tales of the Bizarre
1988Those Swell Yakuza
1988Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen
1987Princess from the Moon as Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military
1987Actress as Heinosuke Gosho
1986The Greatest Man in the World as Nise
1986The Hall of the Crying Deer
1986Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies as Kenjiro Shimada
1986Big Joys, Small Sorrows
1986Rice Curry
1985The Empty Table as Otohiko Kidoji
1985The Burmese Harp as Pvt. Mizushima
1984Make-Up as Kusaka
1984F2 Grand Prix as Nakano
1983Tora-san Goes Religious? as Kazumichi
1983Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983Legend of Plumeria as Shinji Terao
1983ふぞろいの林檎たち as 仲手川 良雄
1983花揺れ
1981The Imperial Navy as Masato Odagiri









