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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92

Tatsuya Nakadai in Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 film Harakiri. The Japanese actor has died aged 92
Tatsuya Nakadai in Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 film Harakiri. The Japanese actor has died aged 92. Photograph: Album/Alamy

The Japanese stage and screen actor Tatsuya Nakadai, whose celebrated performances symbolised a golden age for the country’s cinema, has died aged 92.

Nakadai garnered more than 100 screen credits during a career spanning seven decades, but is perhaps best known internationally for his role in Ran, Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 epic set in the Sengoku “warring states” period that took its inspiration from Shakespeare’s King Lear.

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