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Mansai Nomura II was born on April 5, 1966 in Tokyo, Japan and is credited as a nōgaku artist, actor and theatre director. That puts Mansai Nomura II at 60 years old in 2026. Schooling on record includes Tokyo University of the Arts. Listed accolades include Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor (2002).
My Take
A kyogen performer winning Best Actor at the Blue Ribbon Awards is not a sentence I expected to write. Mansai Nomura II, born in Tokyo in 1966 and trained at Tokyo University of the Arts, played Abe no Seimei in Onmyoji and walked off with that prize in 2002. What draws me in is where the authority in his screen presence comes from: a body drilled since childhood in the fixed forms of classical comic theatre. He works as a kyogen artist, a film actor and a stage director, and none of those feels like a detour from the others. Tradition usually gets described as a cage. Watching him, I suspect the opposite is true, and that having a form is exactly what lets him go anywhere.
This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mansai Nomura II
- Name (Japanese)
- 二世野村萬斎
- Reading
- にせい のむら まんさい
- Born
- April 5, 1966 (age 60)
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- nōgaku artist / actor / theatre director
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Horse
2. Background
- University
- Tokyo University of the Arts
Awards & achievements
- 2002 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor
3. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.mansaku.co.jp/actor.html
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mansai.nomura.official/
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansai%20Nomura
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E6%9D%91%E8%90%AC%E6%96%8E
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q910611
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Mansai Nomura II born?
Mansai Nomura II was born on April 5, 1966 and is 60 years old.
Where is Mansai Nomura II from?
Mansai Nomura II is from Tokyo, Japan.
What does Mansai Nomura II do?
Mansai Nomura II works as nōgaku artist, actor, theatre director.
Where did Mansai Nomura II study?
Mansai Nomura II attended Tokyo University of the Arts.
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