Mansai Nomura

Mansai Nomura

Known for
Acting
Born
April 5, 1966 (age 60)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Nomura Mansai II (二世 野村 萬斎, Nisei Nomura Mansai, born April 5, 1966 under the name Takeshi Nomura (野村 武司, Nomura Takeshi)) is a well known Kyogen stage actor, and film actor. He played Abe no seimei in Onmyoji and Onmyoji 2, an original work by Baku Yumemakura. He received the Best Actor prize at the Blue Ribbon Awards for his work in Onmyoji.

Known For

Filmography

2026
Stove League poster

Stove League

TV · 8 eps

2025
Six Faces: Kyogen, A Life on Stage poster

Six Faces: Kyogen, A Life on Stage

Movie

2024
What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister poster

What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister

Movie · as Ieyasu Tokugawa

2024
Antihero poster

Antihero

TV · as Datehara Taisuke · 10 eps

2023
Revolver Lily poster

Revolver Lily

Movie · as Takita

2023
What Will You Do, Ieyasu? poster

What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

TV · as Imagawa Yoshimoto · 50 eps

2023
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 poster

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

TV · 1 ep

2023
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 poster

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

TV · 1 ep

2022
The Living Tradition of Nomura Kyogen: From Mansaku to Mansai to Yuki poster

The Living Tradition of Nomura Kyogen: From Mansaku to Mansai to Yuki

Movie

2021
Promise of Death poster

Promise of Death

Movie · as Takeru Suguro

2020
Kono atari no mono poster

Kono atari no mono

Movie

2020
OKINA: Dance of Life poster

OKINA: Dance of Life

Movie

2019
Whistleblower poster

Whistleblower

Movie · as Tamio "Hakkaku" Yasumi

2018
シャンハイムーン poster

シャンハイムーン

Movie · as Lu Xun

2018
The Three Generations of the Nomura Kyogen Family poster

The Three Generations of the Nomura Kyogen Family

Movie

2018
The Murder of Kuroido poster

The Murder of Kuroido

Movie · as Takeru Suguro

2017
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~ poster

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~

Movie

2017
Flower and Sword poster

Flower and Sword

Movie · as Senko Ikenobo

2016
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」

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」

Movie

2016
おやじの背中~野村万作・萬斎・裕基 父子3代物語 poster

おやじの背中~野村万作・萬斎・裕基 父子3代物語

Movie

2016
Shin Godzilla poster

Shin Godzilla

Movie · as Godzilla (motion capture)

2016
Scanner poster

Scanner

Movie · as Kazuhiko Sengoku

2015
Air Bound poster

Air Bound

Movie · as Noroi (voice)

2015
Murder on the Orient Express poster

Murder on the Orient Express

Movie · as Takeru Suguro

2015
Murder on the Orient Express poster

Murder on the Orient Express

TV · 2 eps

2013
六百年の「今」を舞う~狂言師・野村萬斎

六百年の「今」を舞う~狂言師・野村萬斎

Movie

2013
The Wind Rises poster

The Wind Rises

Movie · as Giovanni Battista (voice)

2013
SWITCH Interview Masters poster

SWITCH Interview Masters

TV · 1 ep

2012
The Floating Castle poster

The Floating Castle

Movie · as Nagachika Narita

2012
Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto poster

Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Movie · as Self - Kyogen Actor

2012
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon poster

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

TV · as Ryutaro Hachisuka · 10 eps

2008
What the War Meant poster

What the War Meant

Movie · as Emperor Showa

2008
Kurama Tengu poster

Kurama Tengu

TV · as Kurama Tengu · 8 eps

2006
Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi poster

Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi

TV · 1 ep

2004
小さな狂言師 誕生~野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台~ poster

小さな狂言師 誕生~野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台~

Movie

2003
Onmyoji II poster

Onmyoji II

Movie · as Abe no Seimei

2002
Oedipus Rex poster

Oedipus Rex

Movie · as Oedipus

2001
Onmyoji poster

Onmyoji

Movie · as Abe no Seimei

2001
裸にしたい男

裸にしたい男

TV · 1 ep

2000
Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen poster

Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen

Movie

1998
狂言師 野村萬斎 エイスケそしてニューヨーク poster

狂言師 野村萬斎 エイスケそしてニューヨーク

Movie

1998
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai poster

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1998
Jounetsu Tairiku poster

Jounetsu Tairiku

TV · 1 ep

1997
Agri poster

Agri

TV · as Mochizuki Eisuke · 156 eps

1995
狂言師 野村萬斎 初舞台から襲名まで poster

狂言師 野村萬斎 初舞台から襲名まで

Movie

1994
Hana no Ran poster

Hana no Ran

TV · as Hosokawa Katsumoto · 37 eps

1993
野村万作「最後の狐に挑む」 poster

野村万作「最後の狐に挑む」

Movie

1985
Ran poster

Ran

Movie · as Tsurumaru