Masato Hagiwara Filmography

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Demon Pond

Actors: Shinji Takeda, Tomoko Tabata, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Kenichi Endo

Synopsis: American fans of maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike may lament the fact that they have never had the privilege of seeing one of his stage productions firsthand, though with this release of Miike's popular, Kabuki-inspired play Demon Pond they can experience the next best thing to being Read More

2005
Kono Yo No Soto E

Actors: Masato Hagiwara, Jô Odagiri, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Jun Murakami, Mitch

2004
Café Lumiere

Actors: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi

Synopsis: A freelance writer living in Tokyo defies social taboo by choosing life as a single mother in director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's meditative tribute to acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. When Yoko announces that she is pregnant and has no intentions of marrying the father of her child, her Read More

2004
Ogya

Actors: Aya Okamoto, Ryosuke Mura, Kimiko Yo, Ken Mitsuishi, Yoshinori Hiruma

Synopsis: Fujiro Mitsuishi's Ogya is about a pregnant teenager who is forced to confront her mother. Hana (Aya Okamoto) is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother (Kimiko Yo), who gave birth to Hana when she herself was a Read More

2002
Cure

Actors: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato Hagiwara

Synopsis: Oddball Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed this haunting police thriller about murder, mind control, and the power of charisma. Police Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) is tracking a series of bizarre murders, all committed in exactly the same manner: a giant X is slashed in the flesh of Read More

7/27/01
Onmyoji

Actors: Mansai Nomura, Hideaki Ito, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyoko Koizumi, Eriko Imai

Synopsis: In a time when demons and ghosts threaten to bring total devastation to a powerful kingdom, betrayal from within the powerful ranks of the ruling emperor threatens to bring an entire civilization to its knees in this supernaturally charged martial arts epic from director Yojiro Takita. As dark Read More

2001
Chaos

Synopsis: Following up on the wild success of Ring and Ring 2, Hideo Nakata takes a break from spine-chilling horror to direct his labyrinthine postmodern crime thriller based on a book by Shogo Utano. After wealthy businessman Takayuki Komiyama (Ken Mitsuichi) finishes lunch with his beautiful wife Saori Read More

1999
Marks

Synopsis: Yoichi Sai spins this grim and gory crime drama about a serial killer and a lone cop looking to catch him. The film centers on a murderer whose preferred method of killing is a sharpened object to the skull. When a low-level yakuza shows up with a hole in his head, the police respond with their Read More

1995
Gakko

Actors: Toshiyuki Nishida, Keiko Takeshita, Masato Hagiwara, Yuri Nakae, Eiko Shinya

Synopsis: Yoji Yamada, a veteran director who has become a national icon thanks to his beloved Tora-san (Otoko wa tsurai yo) series, spins this tale about a gruff, lovable junior high school teacher working in a night school in Tokyo's low-rent shitamachi district. Like Tora-san, Kuroi-sensei (Toshiyuki Nishida Read More

1994
Kyoso Tanjo

Actors: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Tamaki, Ittoku Kishibe

Synopsis: Kazuo (Masato Hagiwara) is not taken in the by phony miracles put on by the religious group he encounters during one of its tours of Japan, but he is genuinely fascinated by the conmanship of it all. The group is fronted by the sincere elderly master Tetsuharu (Koji Tamaki), who takes the Read More

1993