He taught and trained promising young actors including Kōji Yakusho, Mayumi Wakamura, Tōru Masuoka, Azusa Watanabe, Kenichi Takitō and others. In Ran Nakadai plays another daimyo, Hidetora Ichimonji (loosely based on King Lear from Shakespeare's play King Lear and inspired by the historical daimyo Mōri Motonari). This dual role helped him win his second Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor.
In Kagemusha Nakadai plays both the titular thief turned body-double and the famous daimyō Takeda Shingen whom the thief is tasked with impersonating. Nakadai appeared in two more Kurosawa films from the 1980s. Nakadai continued to work with Kobayashi into the 1960s and won his first Blue Ribbon Award for his role in Harakiri (his personal favorite among his own films) as the aging rōnin Hanshiro Tsugumo. His major breakthrough as an actor came when he was given the part of Jo, a young yakuza in Black River, another film directed by Kobayashi. Nakadai's role in Seven Samurai is technically his debut as The Thick-Walled Room's release was delayed for three years due to controversial subject matter. The following year, he made a brief and uncredited cameo in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai where he is seen for a few seconds as a samurai walking through town. Nakadai was working as a shop clerk in Tokyo before a chance encounter with director Masaki Kobayashi led to him being cast in the film The Thick Walled Room. He picked up a liking of Broadway musicals, and travels once a year to New York City to watch them. He departed UCI's emeritus faculty in January.Nakadai grew up in a very poor family and was unable to afford a university education, prompting him to take up acting. When he left the full-time faculty of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in October 2010, an internal UCI memo stated he'd retired. Suda had no direct involvement in Fujitsu’s management. Miyako Suda Before appointment as a director, Ms. 48 Fujitsu Group Integrated Report 2015Integrated Report 2015.
Suda is known for novel research ideas, such as predicting the future use of biological molecules for computer chip switches. Tatsuya Tanaka Masami Fujita Norihiko Taniguchi Hidehiro Tsukano Duncan Tait. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. If convicted, Suda faces a maximum sentence of eight years in state prison. Suda did not make his $50,000 bail to get out of Orange County Jail until Friday, when the Voice of OC inquired about the status of the case. He was arrested in November at the Fallbrook home of his wife, Grammy winning singer Rita Coolidge, who used to be married to Kris Kristofferson. There is not a lot of California case law to rely on Suda is the first UC professor criminally charged for violating the state's system for monitoring and preventing conflicts of interest by researchers on the 10 UC campuses, the AP reports. In 2011, Suda paid $14,000 to settle a FPPC malfeasance case against him.īut the Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) is not bound by those settlements, and the case by prosecutors in the “white collar crime” unit is based on UCI officials estimating that Suda also secretly received from $325,000 to $700,000 from KDDI, the basis for conflict of interest case filed in Superior Court in Santa Ana. That arrangement was disclosed to the university, but the professor later agreed with campus auditors that he'd repay $330,000 for double billings, $200,000 of which remains outstanding, reports the AP. had a $450,000 contract with Suda, who earned $155,000 annually from UCI. It was also discovered that from 2006-2009, KDDI Inc. The probes revealed Suda double-billed UCI for travel expenses from jetting around the world to academic meetings, which occupied as many of 170 days a year on his calendar. That prompted a two-year investigation into his travel expenses by UCI campus police and a separate probe by the state Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which not only regulates funds contributed to California politicians but to UC and Cal State professors. Some of Suda's students alleged in a 2009 whistleblower complaint that the professor had forced them to fill out expense forms as part of the double-billing scheme. and committing perjury to hide the illicit payments from 2006-2009, the Associated Press reports. Tatsuya Suda, a 59-year-old native of Japan who was a UCI faculty member for more than 25 years until January, faces six felony counts of allegedly receiving from $325,000 to $700,000 illegally from KDDI Inc. An internationally renowned computer engineer has reportedly been criminally charged for conflicts of interest involving secret payments from a major Japanese telecommunications firm funding his UC Irvine research.