Masatoshi Nagase Filmography

Sakuran

Actors: Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Narimiya, Yoshino Kimura, Miho Kanno, Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis: Mika Ninagawa's lavishly produced, broadly-scaled period epic Sakuran unfurls in 18th century Edo, the embryonic fishing village that in later years blossomed into the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo. Anna Tsuchiya stars as Kiyoha, a social-climbing courtesan who inhabits and works in a bordello of Read More

The Hidden Blade

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Tabata, Tomoko Obata, Reiko Takashima

Synopsis: The Hidden Blade concerns Yaichiro, a warrior who must leave his family in the care of two other samurai after he answers a request for his services in another town. Muenezo and Samon do their best to protect the family when they come under attack during Yaichiro's absence. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

Pistol Opera

Actors: Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Kan Hanae, Masatoshi Nagase, Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis: Japanese cult director Seijun Suzuki's combination sequel to and remake of his 1967 gangster film classic Branded To Kill stars Makiko Esumi as Miyuki Minazuki, AKA "the Stray Cat," a beautiful female assassin. She is number three in the hierarchy of killers in her criminal organization at the Read More

The Sea Is Watching

Actors: Renji Ishibashi, Eiji Okuda, Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tohno, Masatoshi Nagase, Hidetaka Yoshioka

Synopsis: Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) is a geisha. One day a samurai named Fusanosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka) appears in her town on the run after having killed a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. The Read More

Suicide Club

Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato, Mai Housyou, Takashi Nomura

Synopsis: This dark horror film begins with the grisly spectacle of 54 Japanese schoolgirls jumping in unison into the path of an oncoming train. This is only the first in a wave of mass suicides that sweeps across Japan, baffling the police and panicking the populace. The two police officers assigned to Read More

Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Kyoka Suzuki, Nene Otsuka, Yoshio Harada, Masashi Yamamoto

Synopsis: Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name is a loose adaptation of the work of Mickey Spillane. Private detective Mike Yokohama (Masatoshi Nagase) is hired by a rich businessman to find his daughter who has joined a commune. Mike goes undercover and joins the secret group, where Read More

Chloe

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Shinya Tsukamoto, Miyuki Matsuda, Shinji Aoyama

Synopsis: Veteran actor turned filmmaker Go Riju spins this love story about the beautiful and doomed. Chloe (Rie Tomosaka) meets Kotaro (Masatoshi Nagase) at an art show at a local mall and true to generic form, they fall in love at first sight. At their fashionable wedding attended by a host of Tokyo Read More

Electric Dragon 80.000 V

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis: Following up on his exuberant Gojoe, which featured an ear-splitting soundtrack and a seizure-inducing editing style, veteran indie director Sogo Ishii spins this bizarre cyberpunk action flick about rock & roll and electricity. Ryuganji Morison (Tadanobu Asano) has two loves in his life Read More

Party 7

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Keisuke Horibe, Yoshinori Okada, Akemi Kobayashi, Tadanobu Asano

Synopsis: Katsuhito Ishii follows up on his loony, phantasmagoric work Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna with this dizzyingly bizarre gangster drama. Low-level yakuza Miki (Masatoshi Nagase) decides that he's had enough of the gangster life and swipes 200 million yen from his boss. He winds up hiding out in a Read More

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu, Jun Kunimura

Synopsis: Maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii takes an unexpectedly conventional approach in this screen adaptation of a well-known Japanese folk legend of the 12th century. In the long-standing battle of the Genji and Heiki clans, the Heiki have emerged triumphant, but they find they have a new adversary Read More

Beautiful Sunday

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Momoko Bitoh, Kumiko Nakamura, Mamako Yoneyama, Kyoko Endoh

Synopsis: Tetsuya Nakajima directs this black comedy about Sunday, that day of rest. Constructed like Grand Hotel, the film interweaves the lives of an assorted collection of oddball Tokyoites living in the same apartment building. A bored young couple's (Masatoshi Nagase and Momoko Bito) attempts at Read More

Wana

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis: Japan's favorite hard-boiled but bungling detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) returns for the third time in this disturbing crime drama. As the lurid tale begins, Hama-san is enjoying a rare good period in his life. With plenty of new clients he finally makes a decent wage. His new girlfriend Read More

Cold Fever

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Gisli Halldorsson, Laura Leigh Hughes

Synopsis: All poor Atsushi Hirata really wants is to leave the cold Japanese winter and take a week's vacation in warm Hawaii. Unfortunately, he ends up forced to honor tradition and travel to even more frigid Iceland to pay tribute to his late parents who died there seven years before. This internationally Read More

The Stairway to the Distant Past

Synopsis: The unlucky private detective, Mike Hama, again treads the gray streets of Yokohama in this sequel to The Most Terrible Time in My Life. The adventure begins in Maiku Hama's office, located above a run-down cinema that is so desperate for cash, they charge admission to Hama's potential clients. Read More

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Shiro Sano, Hou De Jian

Synopsis: Intrepid Japanese detective Maiku Hama is on the case in this adventure, the first of a three part comedy series. Like the Western detective character he is based on (Mike Hammer, get it?), Hama is suave, macho, and cold. Unlike his American counterpart, Hama is a total klutz. His attempts at Read More

Shinde Mo II

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Hideo Murota, Naoto Takenaka

Synopsis: Continuing his penchant for directing films in the characteristically Japanese genre he virtually created, director Takashi Ishii here presents yet another stylish rape/thriller. Nami is an attractive woman, and she loves her husband, who runs the real estate agency she works at. One day, during a Read More

Qiuyue

Synopsis: This award-winning drama chronicles the adventures of a teen-aged Chinese girl and a Japanese businessman who encounter one another in Hong Kong just prior to that business metropolis' return to mainland Chinese control. In the story, Tokio is a connoisseur of good Chinese cooking who is taking Read More

Musuko

Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis: Most famous in Japan and in the West for his long-running Otoko Wa Tsurai yo series which totaled a record breaking 48 installments, Yoji Yamada has in his spare time made some of Japan's most beloved works such as the Siawasi No Kiroi Hankachi, which won best picture in the 1977 Japanese Academy Read More

Mystery Train

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Cinqué Lee, Rufus Thomas, Joe Strummer

Synopsis: Written and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley. Story #1 involves two Japanese tourists Read More

Shonben Raidaa

Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Michiko Kawai, Masatoshi Nagase, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Shinobu Sakagami

Synopsis: In this somewhat confusing action-adventure story aimed at a teen audience, a group of young men and women take on a gang who has kidnapped one of their friends. Their bravery and resourcefulness lead them on a journey into a world filled with the denizens of organized crime, and of cops with Read More