Masatoshi Nakamura

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Masatoshi Nakamura (中村 雅俊, Nakamura Masatoshi, born 1 February 1951) is a Japanese actor and singer from Onagawa, Miyagi. He graduated from Keio University.^[1]

Nakamura joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1973 and made his television debut in 1974 with "Warera Seishun.^[2] Masatoshi made his film debut with "Fureai" in the same year .^[3] He won his first major award at the Elan d'or Awards in 1975.^[4] In 1977, he married actress Junko Igarashi.^[5] In 2012, he played the role of Fumimaro Konoe in the Peter Webber's film Emperor.^[6]

As a singer his first single "Fureai" peaked at number 1 in the Japanese single record chart in 1974.^[7] Besides "Fureai" he has several other hit songs such as "Oretachi no Tabi" and "Koibito mo Nureru Machikado".^[8] "Nakamura appeared in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 1982 and 2012.