Nakamura Shidō II

, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese kabuki and film actor.

Life Born in Tokyo, the son of kabuki actor Nakamura Shidō I, young Nakamura made his kabuki debut at the age of eight. He took the name Shidō the following year, following his father's retirement. Twenty-one years later, despite being a relative latecomer to the silver screen, the 30-year-old Kabuki actor was in his first film, Ping Pong (2002), in which he portrayed a skin-headed, demonically intense table tennis champion nicknamed Dragon. His film debut won Nakamura a Best Newcomer award at the 2003 Japanese Academy Awards. Since then, Nakamura has starred in a string of high-profile movies as well as TV dramas.

In May 2017, he announced that he will take a hiatus for his lung cancer treatment.

Career Nakamura came to international attention in 2004 after starring in the highly successful romance film Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu (Be With You) with Yūko Takeuchi, the two stars playing a couple separated by death. The two married after filming was complete, on 10 May 2005, and eventually divorced on 29 February 2008.

In the Hong Kong/China martial arts movie Fearless starring international kung fu star Jet Li, and set in 1910s Imperial China, Nakamura plays a Japanese martial artist who is Jet Li's final opponent. He also starred in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima.

Nakamura is the voice of Yoshitaka Mine, Chairman of the Hakuho Clan in Yakuza 3 (released in Japan as .

Filmography

Films YearEnglish titleRoleNotes 2002 Ping Pong Dragon 2003 Like Asura Shizuo Katsumata Iden & Tity Johnny 2004 Be With You Takumi Lead role One Piece: Curse of the Sacred Sword Saga (voice) Akasen Izō Lead role My Lover Is a Sniper: The Movie Fan Huoqing 2005 Yamato Mamoru Uchida All About My Dog Kentaro Yamada The Neighbor No. Thirteen No. 13 Lead role One Stormy Night Gabu (voice) 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima Lieutenant Ito American film Fearless Anno Tanaka Death Note Ryuk (voice) Honey and Clover Repairer Death Note 2: The Last NameRyuk (voice) 2007 GeGeGe no Kitaro Great Tengu Judge Cha Cha, The Heavenly Woman Tokugawa Ieyasu 2008 Red Cliff Gan Xing Chinese film Pokémon: Giratina & the Sky Warrior Zero (voice) L: Change the World Ryuk (voice) Ichi Banki 2009 Silver Rain Shoji Iwai 2010 Leonie Yone Noguchi 2011 Ninja Kids!!! Rantaro's father Hard Romantic-er Takagi 2013 Gatchaman Iriya Special appearance Tenshin Taikan Yokoyama 2014 Silver Spoon Miyuki Nakajima 2015 Furiko Daisuke Hasegawa Lead role Terminal Ichiryū Ōshita 2016 Twisted Justice Kuroiwa Death Note: Light Up the New World Ryuk (voice) 2018 The Blood of Wolves Takafumi Kōsaka Signal 100 Shimobe 2021 Character Makabe Last of the Wolves Takafumi Kōsaka 2023 The Village Mitsuyoshi Ōhashi Monster Kiyotaka Kubi Naniwa Mosuke Lumberjack the Monster Takeshi Kenmochi 2024 Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality Ichikawa Danjūrō VII 2024 Broken Rage 2026 Street Kingdom This Is I The Mouths Kusakabe

TV series Taiga dramas Kasuga no Tsubone (1989), Inaba Masasada Mōri Motonari (1997), Amago Yoshihisa Musashi (2003), Tokugawa Hidetada Shinsengumi! (2004), Takimoto Sutesuke Yae's Sakura (2013), Sagawa Kanbei Idaten (2019), Sanetsugu Kanakuri The 13 Lords of the Shogun (2022), Kajiwara Kagetoki Kisarazu Cat's Eye (2002) HR (2003) Akai Tsuki (2004), Himuro Keisuke Death Note (2006) Tenka Souran (2006) Shinjitsu no Shuki BC-kyu Senpan Kato Tetsutaro: Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (2007) Ushi ni Negai wo: Love & Farm (2007) Sexy Voice and Robo (2007, ep1 and 11) Ri Kouran (2007) Wachigaiya Itosato (2007) Nikutai no Mon (2008) Kiri no Hi (2008) Untouchable (2009), Kusuda Makoto Mori no Asagao (2010, ep1) Totto TV (2016), Kiyoshi Atsumi Death Note: New Generation (2016), Ryuk (voice) Bones of Steel (2020), Gorō Nishida Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (2024), Causus Husty, Reiniol Husty Shadows of the Ten Ninja (2026), Hattori Hanzo

Japanese dub The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Max Dillon / Electro (Jamie Foxx) Spider-Man: No Way Home as Max Dillon / Electro (Jamie Foxx) Venom as Venom (Tom Hardy) Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Venom (Tom Hardy) Venom: The Last Dance as Venom (Tom Hardy)

Video games Yakuza 3 (2009), as Yoshitaka Mine Like a Dragon: Ishin! (2014), as Hijikata Toshizō Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties (2026), as Yoshitaka Mine