Kiichi Nakai
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Kiichi Nakai (中井 貴一 Nakai Kiichi?, born 18 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. His father, also a movie actor, passed away when he 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).
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.
[edit] Selected filmography
- 2006 Bōkoku no īgisu aka Aegis
- 2005 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles voice
- 2003 Warriors of Heaven and Earth
- 2003 Onmyoji 2
- 2003 Mibu gishi den aka When the Last Sword Is Drawn
- 1999 Fukuro no shiro aka Owls' Castle
- 1998 Ai o kou hito aka Begging for Love
- 1995 Makusu no yama aka Marks
- 1994 Shijushichinin no shikaku aka 47 Ronin
- 1981 Rengo kantai
