Matsumura Tatsuo

Active in both acting and football while in college.

Co-founded theater companies both before and after the war. His post-war company floundered during Japan's bleak economy and was forced to disband. Matsumura entered TV instead and gradually transitioned into film.

Appeared in films for notable directors like Kobayashi Masaki (Hara-Kiri, 1962), Yamada Yôji (The Lovable Tramp, 1966) and Kurosawa Akira (Dodes'kaden, 1970).

Matsumura played the lead role in Kurosawa's posthumously released work Madadayo (1993), for which he was nominated for the Japanese Academy Prize for Best Actor.