Masahiko Nishimura (西村 雅彦, Nishimura Masahiko, born December 12, 1960) is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He’s known best for his tendency to act comedy roles.
Nishimura was born December 12, 1960 in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture Japan. He attended Toyo University to study photography, but never graduated, turning instead to theatre at the age of 21. After a short while he gave up and returned to Toyama, returning again at the age of 24. It was at...
more
Masahiko Nishimura (西村 雅彦, Nishimura Masahiko, born December 12, 1960) is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He’s known best for his tendency to act comedy roles.
Nishimura was born December 12, 1960 in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture Japan. He attended Toyo University to study photography, but never graduated, turning instead to theatre at the age of 21. After a short while he gave up and returned to Toyama, returning again at the age of 24. It was at this time he met a young Koki Mitani, who at the time was aspiring to become an actor while writing scripts for radio and theatre.
Nishimura, Mitani and others began the Tokyo Sunshine Boys in 1983, a comedy-based theatrical group which also included Japanese actors Zen Kajiwara and Kazuyuki Aijima. This group grew in popularity over the next ten years until it produced the immensely popular play 12 Gentle Japanese, a parody of Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men. This play became a movie soon after, but Nishimura was not part of the cast.
Soon...
less
