Mansai Nomura

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

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

Shin Godzilla

Antihero

Ran

The Wind Rises

Hana no Ran

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

All Movies (33)

• Six Faces: Kyogen, A Life on Stage2025
• What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister2024 · as Ieyasu Tokugawa
• Revolver Lily2023 · as Takita
• The Living Tradition of Nomura Kyogen: From Mansaku to Mansai to Yuki2022
• Promise of Death2021 · as Takeru Suguro
• Kono atari no mono2020
• OKINA: Dance of Life2020
• Whistleblower2019 · as Tamio "Hakkaku" Yasumi
• The Three Generations of the Nomura Kyogen Family2018
• The Murder of Kuroido2018 · as Takeru Suguro
• シャンハイムーン2018 · as Lu Xun
• Flower and Sword2017 · 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
• 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
• Shin Godzilla2016 · as Godzilla (motion capture)
• Scanner2016 · as Kazuhiko Sengoku
• おやじの背中～野村万作・萬斎・裕基 父子3代物語2016
• Air Bound2015 · as Noroi (voice)
• Murder on the Orient Express2015 · as Takeru Suguro
• The Wind Rises2013 · as Giovanni Battista (voice)
• 六百年の「今」を舞う～狂言師・野村萬斎2013
• The Floating Castle2012 · as Nagachika Narita
• Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto2012 · as Self - Kyogen Actor
• What the War Meant2008 · as Emperor Showa
• 小さな狂言師　誕生～野村萬斎・親子三代の初舞台～2004
• Onmyoji II2003 · as Abe no Seimei
• オイディプス王2002 · as Oedipus
• Onmyoji2001 · as Abe no Seimei
• Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen2000
• 狂言師　野村萬斎　エイスケそしてニューヨーク1998
• 狂言師　野村萬斎　初舞台から襲名まで1995
• 野村万作「最後の狐に挑む」1993
• Ran1985 · as Tsurumaru

All TV Shows (15)

• Stove League2026
• Antihero2024 · as Datehara Taisuke
• 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
• 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
• What Will You Do, Ieyasu?2023 · as Imagawa Yoshimoto
• Murder on the Orient Express2015
• SWITCH Interview Masters2013
• Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon2012 · as Ryutaro Hachisuka
• Kurama Tengu2008 · as Kurama Tengu
• Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi2006
• 裸にしたい男2001
• Jounetsu Tairiku1998
• Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai1998 · as Self
• Agri1997 · as Mochizuki Eisuke
• Hana no Ran1994 · as Hosokawa Katsumoto