Tatsuya Nakadai, an icon of Japanese cinema, has died at 92
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Tatsuya Nakadai, a veteran Japanese actor best known for films such as Ran, High and Low and Harakiri, died on Saturday at the age of 92. His collaborations with some of the greatest directors in Japan cemented him as an icon of the "Golden Age" of Japanese cinema.
He died from pneumonia, according to a statement from Mumeijuku, the acting school and theater company that Nakadai founded.
Nakadai began
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