Obituary Tatsuya Nakadai rose to fame in anti-war trilogy

Japanese stage and movie actor Tatsuya Nakadai (left), who starred in a string of Akira Kurosawa films, including the lead in Ran, has died at age 92, his acting school said on Nov 1.

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Nakadai rose to fame in Japan and internationally under director Masaki Kobayashi, who cast him in his epic antiwar trilogy of the late 1950s and early 1960s, The Human Condition.

Nakadai’s acting school, Mumeijuku, did not say when the actor died or give other details.