Actor
· Acting
Kiichi Nakai
Born 1961-09-18
📍 Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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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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Filmography 118
YUKIKAZE
2025
Second to Last Love 3
as 长仓和平
2025
Silence of the Sea
as Suiken
2024
Haha no Matsu Sato
2024
We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
as Norio Koike
2023
The Travel Nurse
as Kuki Shizuka
2022
Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
2022
Kareinaru ichizoku
as Manpyo Daisuke
2021
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Kyouen NG
as Toyama Eiji
2020
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
as Norio Koike
2020
風博士
2019
Hit Me Anyone One More Time
as Keisuke Kuroda
2019
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
as Keiichi Nakano, convenience store manager
2019
Memory
as Hidehisa Honjo
2018
娘の結婚
2018
We Make Antiques!
as Norio Koike
2018
Flower and Sword
as Nobunaga Oda
2017
Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
2016
Good Morning Show
as Shingo Sumida
2016
Ken San
as Narrator
2016
Kinpika
as Kenta Sakaguchi
2016
Kinpika
as 阪口健太
2016
Again
as Haruhiko Sakacho
2015
Snow on The Blades
as Kingo Shimura
2014
Time Never Stops
as Ryosuke Saigo
2014
Kumokiri Nizaemon
as Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
SWITCH Interview Masters
2013
Second to Last Love
2012
Priceless
as Kengo Moai
2012
中国文明の謎
2012
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
as Mitsukuni Mito
2012
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012
The Wings of the Kirin
as Takeaki Aoyagi
2012
Second to Last Love
as Nagakura Wahei
2012
Taira no Kiyomori
as Taira no Tadamori
2012
Taira no Kiyomori
2012
Wild 7
2011
A Flawless Concierge
as Osano
2011
三谷幸喜「short cut」
2011
A Ghost of a Chance
as Osano
2011
Princess Toyotomi
as Koichi Sanada
2011
Lunch ON!
as Self (narration)
2011
The Warring States
as King of Qi
2011
Railways
as Hajime Tsutsui
2010
The History of Our Family
as Jyuichi Shishimaru
2010
Pro Bono
as Sawaki
2010
Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess
as Hiroshi Kataoka
2009
Smile
as Ito Kazuma
2009
Garden of the Wind
as Sadami Shiratori
2008
Samurai Gangsters
as Jirocho Shimizu
2008
The Magic Hour
as Toru Iwata
2008
Phoenix
2007
Hero
as Akihiko Takida
2007
Barefoot Gen
as Daikichi Nakaoka
2007
はだしのゲン
as 中岡 大吉
2007
Dororo
as Kagemitsu Daigo
2007
HERO SP
as Akihiko Takida
2006
Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company
2006
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
as Kenichi Takata (voice)
2005
A Hardest Night!!
as Hashita
2005
Aegis
as Yong Fa
2005
Yoshitsune
as Kamakura's first Sho-Gun
2005
Onmyoji II
as Genkaku
2003
Rockers
2003
Warriors of Heaven and Earth
as Lai Qi
2003
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
as Kanichiro Yoshimura
2003
Musashi
as Munenori Yagyu
2003
Shura Group Part 2
2002
Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
2002
Shura Group
2002
Shura Group Part 3
2002
Love From a Lie
2001
The Firefly
2001
Bring Me to the Hotel
2001
Darkness in the Light
as Makoto Sasano
2001
Tales of the Unusual
as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
2000
Shinsengumi
2000
Owls' Castle
as Tsuzura Juzo
1999
Semi-double
as Sho Jinguji
1999
Zankyo
1999
Falling into the Evening
as Shibata
1998
Begging for Love
as Fumio Chin
1998
Love Letter
1998
I Miss Age 35
1996
MARKS
as Yuichiro Goda
1995
Fusa
1995
47 Ronin
as Matashiro Irobe
1994
Good Mourning
1994
Natsuko no Sake
as 佐伯康男
1994
Marriage
as Masahiko Tendo
1993
Jaja uma narashi
as Ryuichiro Yamada
1993
Moving
as Kenichi
1993
Gekashitsu
as Kiyonaga
1992
Yakuza Warfare
1991
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990
Tokyo Heaven
as Fumio Amamiya
1990
Tales of the Bizarre
1990
Those Swell Yakuza
1988
Takeda Shingen
as Takeda Shingen
1988
Princess from the Moon
as Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military
1987
Actress
as Heinosuke Gosho
1987
The Greatest Man in the World
as Nise
1986
The Hall of the Crying Deer
1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as Kenjiro Shimada
1986
Big Joys, Small Sorrows
1986
Rice Curry
1986
The Empty Table
as Otohiko Kidoji
1985
The Burmese Harp
as Pvt. Mizushima
1985
Make-Up
as Kusaka
1984
F2 Grand Prix
as Nakano
1984
Tora-san Goes Religious?
as Kazumichi
1983
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
Legend of Plumeria
as Shinji Terao
1983
ふぞろいの林檎たち
as 仲手川 良雄
1983
Oddball Nippon
1983
The Imperial Navy
as Masato Odagiri
1981