--- name: "Mansai Nomura" canonical: "https://film.one/person/mansai-nomura" fi1m_id: "mansai-nomura" imdb_id: "nm1334850" tmdb_id: 149405 wikidata_id: "Q910611" roles: ["Actor"] born: "5 April 1966" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 81 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-28T20:58:17.181708+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Mansai Nomura ## Identity Mansai Nomura - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mansai-nomura - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** mansai-nomura - **IMDb ID:** nm1334850 - **TMDB ID:** 149405 - **Wikidata ID:** Q910611 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansai_Nomura, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q910611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1334850/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/149405 Actor. Born 5 April 1966 in Tokyo, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 5 April 1966, Tokyo, Japan - **Active:** 1985–2016 - **Also known as:** 野村 萬斎, 野村 武司, Takeshi Nomura - **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 92 (1), 2010s 76 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 77 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Action 2, Drama 2, History 2, Animation 1, Horror 1, Romance 1 - **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $219m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansai_Nomura, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q910611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1334850/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/149405 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Ran*](https://film.one/film/ran.md) (92) - **HBO Max:** [*The Wind Rises*](https://film.one/film/the-wind-rises.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Mansai Nomura is a Japanese kyōgen performer and film actor. Born Takeshi Nomura on 5 April 1966 in Tokyo, he trained at Tokyo University of the Arts and made his screen debut as the blind Tsurumaru in Akira Kurosawa's *Ran* (1985). He is known for portraying Abe no Seimei in *Onmyoji* (2001) and its 2003 sequel, for which he received the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor. Other film roles include the voice of Giovanni Battista Caproni in *The Wind Rises* (2013) and motion-capture work as Godzilla in *Shin Godzilla* (2016). Nomura has also directed stage productions that fuse traditional kyōgen with contemporary theatre. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, wikizilla.org.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Shin Godzilla* (2016), Fi1m 74, as Godzilla (motion capture) — [page](https://film.one/film/shin-godzilla.md) - *The Wind Rises* (2013), Fi1m 77, as Giovanni Battista (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wind-rises.md) - *Ran* (1985), Fi1m 92, as Tsurumaru — [page](https://film.one/film/ran.md) ## Complete filmography (47) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Stove League* (2026), series, Actor - *Six Faces: Kyogen, A Life on Stage* (2025), Actor - *What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister* (2024), as Ieyasu Tokugawa - *Antihero* (2024), series, as Datehara Taisuke - *Revolver Lily* (2023), as Takita - *アクターズ・ショート・フィルム3ザ・ドキュメンタリー 映画はつねに新しい 完全密着1年間の記録* (2023), series, Actor - *Actors Short Films Season 3* (2023), Director - *Tiger Cave* (2023), Writer, Director - *直前特番 アクターズ・ショート・フィルム3独占インタビュー　 高良健吾/玉木宏/土屋太鳳/中川大志/野村萬斎* (2023), series, Actor - *What Will You Do, Ieyasu?* (2023), series, as Imagawa Yoshimoto - *The Living Tradition of Nomura Kyogen: From Mansaku to Mansai to Yuki* (2022), Actor - *Promise of Death* (2021), as Takeru Suguro - *Kono atari no mono* (2020), Actor - *OKINA: Dance of Life* (2020), Actor - *Whistleblower* (2019), as Tamio "Hakkaku" Yasumi - *The Three Generations of the Nomura Kyogen Family* (2018), Actor - *The Murder of Kuroido* (2018), as Takeru Suguro - *シャンハイムーン* (2018), as Lu Xun - *Flower and Sword* (2017), as Senko Ikenobo - *未来へ　伝統×最先端が挑む日本最古の舞　～狂言師・野村萬斎×真鍋大度の挑戦～* (2017), Actor - *野村萬斎×シェイクスピア～密着・５０歳にして挑む新たな「マクベス」* (2016), Actor - *Shin Godzilla* (2016), as Godzilla (motion capture), Motion Actor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/shin-godzilla.md) - *Scanner* (2016), as Kazuhiko Sengoku - *おやじの背中～野村万作・萬斎・裕基 父子3代物語* (2016), Actor - *Air Bound* (2015), as Noroi (voice) - *Murder on the Orient Express* (2015), as Takeru Suguro - *Murder on the Orient Express* (2015), series, Actor - *The Wind Rises* (2013), as Giovanni Battista (voice) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wind-rises.md) - *六百年の「今」を舞う～狂言師・野村萬斎* (2013), Actor - *The Floating Castle* (2012), as Nagachika Narita - *Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon* (2012), series, as Ryutaro Hachisuka - *What the War Meant* (2008), as Emperor Showa - *Kurama Tengu* (2008), series, as Kurama Tengu - *Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi* (2006), series, Actor - *小さな狂言師　誕生～野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台～* (2004), Actor - *Onmyoji II* (2003), as Abe no Seimei - *Oedipus Rex* (2002), as Oedipus - *Onmyoji* (2001), as Abe no Seimei - *裸にしたい男* (2001), series, Actor - *Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen* (2000), Actor - *狂言師　野村萬斎　エイスケそしてニューヨーク* (1998), Actor - *Jounetsu Tairiku* (1998), series, Actor - *Agri* (1997), series, as Mochizuki Eisuke - *狂言師　野村萬斎　初舞台から襲名まで* (1995), Actor - *Hana no Ran* (1994), series, as Hosokawa Katsumoto - *野村万作「最後の狐に挑む」* (1993), Actor - *Ran* (1985), as Tsurumaru — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/ran.md) ## Gallery - ![公人として政府系五輪関連イベントにて挨拶する二世野村萬斎（東京オリンピック・パラリンピック競技大会組織委員会（TOCOG） 文化・教育委員会の委員としての内閣府系イベントに出席しての挨拶）](https://film.one/media/person/104893/gallery-5b7465085d6c.jpg) 公人として政府系五輪関連イベントにて挨拶する二世野村萬斎（東京オリンピック・パラリンピック競技大会組織委員会（TOCOG） 文化・教育委員会の委員としての内閣府系イベントに出席しての挨拶） — Solitarius viator, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/MansaiNOMURA_TOCOG_committee.jpg/1280px-MansaiNOMURA_TOCOG_committee.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Mansai Nomura](https://film.one/media/person/104893/gallery-ebd907f36afa.png) Mansai Nomura — 首相官邸, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Mansai_Nomura.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![日本の狂言師、野村萬斎 (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/104893/gallery-9bca692d1df1.jpg) 日本の狂言師、野村萬斎 (2013) — 文化庁, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Mansai_Nomura_%28original%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor 2002: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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