After a bad experience making his film debut in Seven Samurai in 1954, Tatsuya Nakadai was a jobbing actor until cast as the hero of Masaki Kobayashi's World War II trilogy, The Human Condition (1959-61). Elevated to star status as a result, he went on to co-star with Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Sanjuro and High and Low, later playing the leads in the director's late masterpieces, Kagemusha...