Nakamura Shidō II

Mikihiro Ogawa (小川 幹弘, Ogawa Mikihiro, born 14 September 1972), better known by the stage name Shidō Nakamura II (二代目 中村 獅童, Nidaime Nakamura Shidō), is a Japanese kabuki and film actor.

Shidō Nakamura II
二代目中村獅童
Nakamura in 2010
Born	Mikihiro Ogawa (1972-09-14) 14 September 1972 (age 52) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Kabuki and film actor
Years active	1989–present
Notable credit(s)	Ryuk in Death Note, Dragon in Ping Pong
Spouses	Yūko Takeuchi ​ ​ (m. 2005; div. 2008)​ Saori Adachi ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	3
Father	Nakamura Shidō I
Relatives	Nakamura Karoku I (great-great-grandfather) Nakamura Karoku III (great-grandfather) Nakamura Tokizō III (grandfather) Yorozuya Kinnosuke (uncle) Nakamura Kashō II (uncle) Nakamura Tokizō IV (uncle) Nakamura Tokizō V (cousin) Nakamura Matagorō III (cousin) Nakamura Karoku V (cousin) Nakamura Kinnosuke II (cousin) Nakamura Baishi IV (cousin) Nakamura Mantarō (cousin) Nakamura Kashō IV (cousin) Nakamura Tanenosuke (cousin) Nakamura Yonekichi V (cousin) Nakamura Ryūnosuke (cousin) Nakamura Hayato I (cousin) Nakamura Tanetarō V (cousin) Nakamura Hidenosuke (cousin)
Website	http://www.shidou.jp/

Life

Born in Tokyo, the son of kabuki actor Nakamura Shidō I, young Nakamura made his kabuki debut at the age of eight. He took the name Shidō the following year, following his father's retirement. Twenty-one years later, despite being a relative latecomer to the silver screen, the 30-year-old Kabuki actor was in his first film, Ping Pong (2002), in which he portrayed a skin-headed, demonically intense table tennis champion nicknamed Dragon. His film debut won Nakamura a Best Newcomer award at the 2003 Japanese Academy Awards. Since then, Nakamura has starred in a string of high-profile movies as well as TV dramas.

In May 2017, he announced that he will take a hiatus for his lung cancer treatment.^[1]

Career

Nakamura came to international attention in 2004 after starring in the highly successful romance film Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu (Be With You) with Yūko Takeuchi, the two stars playing a couple separated by death. The two married after filming was complete, on 10 May 2005, and eventually divorced on 29 February 2008.

In the Hong Kong/China martial arts movie Fearless starring international kung fu star Jet Li, and set in 1910s Imperial China, Nakamura plays a Japanese martial artist who is Jet Li's final opponent. He also starred in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima.

Nakamura is the voice of Yoshitaka Mine, Chairman of the Hakuho Clan in Yakuza 3 (released in Japan as Like a Dragon 3 (龍が如く3, "Ryū ga Gotoku 3").

Filmography

Films

Year	English title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2002	Ping Pong	Dragon		[2]
2003	Like Asura	Shizuo Katsumata
	Iden & Tity	Johnny
2004	Be With You	Takumi	Lead role
	One Piece: Curse of the Sacred Sword	Saga (voice)
	Akasen	Izō	Lead role
	My Lover Is a Sniper: The Movie	Fan Huoqing
2005	Yamato	Mamoru Uchida
	All About My Dog	Kentaro Yamada
	The Neighbor No. Thirteen	No. 13	Lead role
	One Stormy Night	Gabu (voice)
2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	Lieutenant Ito	American film
	Fearless	Anno Tanaka
	Death Note	Ryuk (voice)
	Honey and Clover	Repairer
2007	GeGeGe no Kitaro	Great Tengu Judge
	Cha Cha, The Heavenly Woman	Tokugawa Ieyasu
2008	Red Cliff	Gan Xing	Chinese film
	Pokémon: Giratina & the Sky Warrior	Zero (voice)
	L: Change the World	Ryuk (voice)
	Ichi	Banki
2009	Silver Rain	Shoji Iwai
2010	Leonie	Yone Noguchi
2011	Ninja Kids!!!	Rantaro's father
	Hard Romantic-er	Takagi
2013	Gatchaman	Iriya	Special appearance	[3]
	Tenshin	Taikan Yokoyama		[4]
2014	Silver Spoon	Miyuki Nakajima		[5]
2015	Furiko	Daisuke Hasegawa	Lead role	[6]
	Terminal	Ichiryū Ōshita		[7]
2016	Twisted Justice	Kuroiwa		[8]
	Death Note: Light Up the New World	Ryuk (voice)		[9]
2018	The Blood of Wolves	Takafumi Kōsaka		[10]
2020	Mio's Cookbook	Mataji		[11]
	Signal 100	Shimobe		[12]
2021	Character	Makabe		[13]
	Last of the Wolves	Takafumi Kōsaka		[10]
2023	The Village	Mitsuyoshi Ōhashi		[14]
	Monster	Kiyotaka		[15]
	Kubi	Naniwa Mosuke		[16]
	Lumberjack the Monster	Takeshi Kenmochi		[17]
2024	Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality	Ichikawa Danjūrō VII		[18]
2025	Broken Rage			[19]

TV series

• NHK Taiga dramas
  • Kasuga no Tsubone (1989), Inaba Masasada
  • Mōri Motonari (1997), Amago Yoshihisa
  • Musashi (2003), Tokugawa Hidetada
  • Shinsengumi! (2004), Takimoto Sutesuke^[20]
  • Yae's Sakura (2013), Sagawa Kanbei^[21]
  • Idaten (2019), Sanetsugu Kanakuri^[22]
  • The 13 Lords of the Shogun (2022), Kajiwara Kagetoki^[23]
• Kisarazu Cat's Eye (TBS, 2002)
• HR (Fuji TV, 2003)
• Akai Tsuki (TV Tokyo, 2004), Himuro Keisuke
• Death Note (NTV, 2006)
• Tenka Souran (TV Tokyo, 2006)
• Shinjitsu no Shuki BC-kyu Senpan Kato Tetsutaro: Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (NTV, 2007)
• Ushi ni Negai wo: Love & Farm (Fuji TV, 2007)
• Sexy Voice and Robo (NTV, 2007, ep1 and 11)
• Ri Kouran (TV Tokyo, 2007)
• Wachigaiya Itosato (TBS, 2007)
• Nikutai no Mon (TV Asahi, 2008)
• Kiri no Hi (NTV, 2008)
• Untouchable (2009), Kusuda Makoto
• Mori no Asagao (TV Tokyo, 2010, ep1)
• Totto TV (2016, NHK), Kiyoshi Atsumi
• Death Note: New Generation (2016, Hulu), Ryuk (voice)
• Bones of Steel (2020, Wowow), Gorō Nishida
• Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (2024, TV Asahi), Causus Husty, Reiniol Husty

Japanese dub

• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Max Dillon / Electro (Jamie Foxx)^[24]
• Spider-Man: No Way Home as Max Dillon / Electro (Jamie Foxx)^[25]
• Venom as Venom (Tom Hardy)^[26]
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Venom (Tom Hardy)^[27]
• Venom: The Last Dance as Venom (Tom Hardy)^[28]

Video games

• Ryū ga Gotoku 3 (2009), as Yoshitaka Mine
• Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! (2014), as Hijikata Toshizō

References

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24. "アメイジング・スパイダーマン2TM". Star Channel. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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• Kabuki techō: Kabuki Official Data Book 2008. Nihon Haiyū Kyōkai (Japan Actors' Association). 2008: Tokyo. p175.

External links

• Nakamura Shido Kabuki actors profile Archived 15 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
• Nakamura Shido at IMDb
• Shido Nakamura profile on HogaCentral
• jdorama entry