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Movies starring Kiichi Nakai have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
Hero - released in 2007 - is Kiichi Nakai's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 599 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kiichi Nakai is 47 Ronin - released in 1994 - with a score of 55% based on 623 reviews.
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.
Kiichi Nakai has acted in films with Hiroshi Abe, Yutaka Matsushige, Renji Ishibashi and Ken Takakura.
Kiichi Nakai has worked with these film directors: Zhang Yimou, Kon Ichikawa, Akihiko Shiota and Takanori Jinnai.
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