Acting credits
115
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Kiichi Nakai
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 79Series: 36
TMDB ID: 76931
IMDb ID: nm0620018
Known for: Acting
Born: September 18, 1961
Age: 64
Place of birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1981 - 2025
Years active: 45
Average TMDB rating: 6.88
Wikidata: Q1139714
Also known as
Kiichi Nakai • Киити Накаи • 나카이 키이치
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kiichi Nakai (born 18 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. His father, Keiji Sada, also a movie actor, died when Nakai 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). He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 19th Hochi Film Award for 47 Ronin. 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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Kiichi Nakai.
9.5
YUKIKAZE
2025 Movie
8.5
Silence of the Sea
as Suiken
2024 Movie
7.7
We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
as Norio Koike
2023 Movie
8.0
Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
2022 Movie
7.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020 Movie
8.4
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
as Norio Koike
2020 Movie
6.9
Hit Me Anyone One More Time
as Keisuke Kuroda
2019 Movie
6.1
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
as Keiichi Nakano, convenience store manager
2019 Movie
7.6
We Make Antiques!
as Norio Koike
2018 Movie
8.0
Flower and Sword
as Nobunaga Oda
2017 Movie
Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
2016 Movie
8.0
Good Morning Show
as Shingo Sumida
2016 Movie
6.0
Ken San
as Narrator
2016 Movie
4.8
Again
as Haruhiko Sakacho
2015 Movie
6.6
Snow on The Blades
as Kingo Shimura
2014 Movie
10.0
Time Never Stops
as Ryosuke Saigo
2014 Movie
Second to Last Love
2012 Movie
7.3
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
as Mitsukuni Mito
2012 Movie
6.3
The Wings of the Kirin
as Takeaki Aoyagi
2012 Movie
5.9
Wild 7
2011 Movie
5.5
A Flawless Concierge
as Osano
2011 Movie
6.0
三谷幸喜「short cut」
2011 Movie
7.3
A Ghost of a Chance
as Osano
2011 Movie
5.9
Princess Toyotomi
as Koichi Sanada
2011 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Kiichi Nakai.
6.0
Second to Last Love 3
as 长仓和平 • 11 eps
2025 Series
9.0
Haha no Matsu Sato
4 eps
2024 Series
7.3
The Travel Nurse
as Kuki Shizuka • 17 eps
2022 Series
6.2
Kareinaru ichizoku
as Manpyo Daisuke • 12 eps
2021 Series
7.5
Kyouen NG
as Toyama Eiji • 7 eps
2020 Series
風博士
1 eps
2019 Series
7.0
Memory
as Hidehisa Honjo • 12 eps
2018 Series
娘の結婚
1 eps
2018 Series
Kinpika
as Kenta Sakaguchi • 5 eps
2016 Series
9.0
Kumokiri Nizaemon
as Kumokiri Nizaemon • 53 eps
2013 Series
8.5
SWITCH Interview Masters
1 eps
2013 Series
8.4
Priceless
as Kengo Moai • 10 eps
2012 Series
8.0
中国文明の謎
3 eps
2012 Series
6.8
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
11 eps
2012 Series
7.0
Second to Last Love
as Nagakura Wahei • 34 eps
2012 Series
8.0
Taira no Kiyomori
as Taira no Tadamori • 50 eps
2012 Series
Lunch ON!
as Self (narration) • 11 eps
2011 Series
7.0
The History of Our Family
as Jyuichi Shishimaru • 3 eps
2010 Series
7.8
Smile
as Ito Kazuma • 11 eps
2009 Series
Garden of the Wind
as Sadami Shiratori • 11 eps
2008 Series
10.0
はだしのゲン
as 中岡 大吉 • 3 eps
2007 Series
Barefoot Gen
as Daikichi Nakaoka • 2 eps
2007 Series
8.5
Yoshitsune
as Kamakura's first Sho-Gun • 49 eps
2005 Series
8.3
Musashi
as Munenori Yagyu • 49 eps
2003 Series