Stage and movie actor Tatsuya Nakadai (pic), who starred in a string of Akira Kurosawa films, including the lead in Ran, has died aged 92, his acting school said.
Nakadai first rose to fame in Japan and internationally under director Masaki Kobayashi, who cast him in his epic anti-war trilogy The Human Condition of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
