Nagata is best known for playing gruff, domineering fathers in films like
Kinoshita's The Snow Flurry and
Immortal Love. In the 1950s he led a campaign to establish a monument in honor of nine members of the Sakura Corps acting company who died while performing in
Hiroshima at the time of the
bombing, when Nagata and other troupe members had been away for military service or other reasons. The monument was dedicated in 1959. ==Partial filmography==