is a

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who was born in

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on November 6, 1957. He has appeared extensively in

pink film in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. The Western equiv ...

s and on television. The pink film critics Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser commented in 1998 that "he is generally considered one of the best actors in the pink business."

Life and career

Pink film

Nakane's earliest film credit in the

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is the April 1982

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film , which was part of the ''Female Teacher'' series from

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. In the next two years, Nakane starred in three gay-themed films for ENK, a studio which almost exclusively produced

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oriented works. The trilogy, consisting of , and , all directed by

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, were frank and sympathetic to their gay

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s. In July 1984, Nakane also appeared in the pink film for the

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studio, where he was cast as a tabloid editor who plays amateur detective to catch a

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slasher. Later that same year, in November 1984, he played a college tutor who was "very popular with the college girls" in the Nikkatsu production . In 1985 and again in 1986, Nakane was honored by the Zoom-Up Film Festival (ズームアップ映画祭) as Best Actor in their Zoom-Up Awards for his work in pink film during the previous year. Nakane appeared with actor-director

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in the

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-directed feature for

in March 1988, called - also known under the director's title of ''Survey Map of a Paradise Lost''. The film took the 9th Place Best Film award from the 1988

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ceremony. In October 1989, Nakane played opposite

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in the supernatural pink thriller Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima, where the Weissers noted his fine performance. The film was chosen as Best Film of the year at the 1989 Pink Grand Prix festival. That same year also saw Nakane in '' Molester's Train: Get On From The Back!'', which took the award for Seventh Best Film from the Pink Grand Prix. For his work in such films, Nakane himself won the Pink Grand Prix Best Actor award for the year 1989. For

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's 1990 film, , the Weissers remarked that Nakane was lauded by the mainstream critics for his performance in the film. In April 1993, Nakane performed with

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in the pink film , which was distributed by

Later career

Nakane started his television acting career as early as 1997 with a small role in the

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romantic series . He subsequently appeared in ''The Conductor Murder'' episode in season 3 (aired in 1999) of the

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mystery series

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. In 2008, he performed in Episode 11 of the

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series

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, which was based on the

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of the same name. Nakane also appeared in several episodes of the 2009

miniseries , which was based on the book by

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. Additionally, Nakane played a part in the 2010 action drama movie ''The Negotiator - The Movie'' - also known as , which was based on the TV show

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Roles

*Naruto - Fuki's Father *Naruto Shippuden - Ishikawa *Hunter x Hunter - Basho *One Piece - Daifugo

References

Bibliography

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