The actor Bandô Matajûrô I held this name from the 11th lunar month of 1705 to the middle of the 1730s.

The actor Ôtani Hirohachi II held the name of Bandô Matajûrô II before 1783.

Born in 1780. He started his career in Ôsaka miyaji shibai, performing in kodomo shibai under the name of Sakata Ichitarô. He became disciple of the actor Arashi Kichitarô III, became wakaonnagata and received the name of Arashi Ichitarô in the 11th lunar month of 1799 ^[3] to perform in Ôsaka at the Kita no Shinchi Shibai. He became a disciple of Kataoka Nizaemon VII, who gave him the name of Kataoka Matsusuke II ^[2] in the 3rd lunar month of 1806 ^[4] in Ise at the Naka-no-Jizô Shibai. He went to Edo in Fall 1813. He performed at the Moritaza in the kaomise drama "Gohiiki Tsunagi Uma". He achieved a great success by playing in the same theater in the 6th lunar month of 1814 the roles of the yakko Edohei, Takemura Sadanoshin and the menoto Shigenoi in the drama "Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna". He took the name of Kataoka Gachô in the 11th lunar month of 1815 at the Nakamuraza, performing in the kaomise drama "Shitennô Oedo no Kaburaya", which also celebrated the shûmei of Onoe Kikugorô III and welcomed in Edo the actor Sawamura Tanosuke II. He became disciple of Bandô Mitsugorô III and took the name of Bandô Matajûrô III in the 11th lunar month of 1816 at the Kawarasakiza, where he performed in the kaomise drama "Kiyomori Eiga no Utena", which also celebrated the shûmei of Sôryô Jinroku II, Ôtani Bajû II, Sakata Hanjûrô, Ichikawa Momotarô I, Tsuuchi Monzaburô III and Ichikawa Kodanji III. He took the name of Nakamura Jûzô V ^[1] in the 11th lunar month of 1819 at the Nakamuraza, where he performed in the kaomise drama "Hana no Iro Yatsushi Kuronushi". He went back to Ôsaka in 1822 to perform mostly in hama shibai. He left Ôsaka in the first quarter of 1832 to perform in Nagoya. The weather was terrible, snow was heavily falling and he died frozen along with several of his travel companions while going through the Happô Pass ^[5] the 26th of the 1st lunar month of 1832 ^[6]. He was the father of Nakamura Matsusuke.

There will be in the future to come a full page dedicated to Nakamura Jûzô V in kabuki21.com.