 Nakamura played Polonius in "Hamlet", Herod in Wilde's "Salome", Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov in Chekov's "Uncle Vanya", and Krapp in "Krapp's Last Tape".He also appeared in "Macbeth", "The Merchant of Venice", and "The Cherry Orchard" .In the 1950s and 1960s, he played major roles in Yukio Mishima's plays such as "Rokumeikan", "My Friend Hitler", and so on.