Toshiya Nagasawa Filmography

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Azumi 2

Actors: Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yuma Ishigaki

Synopsis: The effects of schizophrenia reverberate through three generations of educated Indian women when a woman is diagnosed with the psychotic disorder and those around her, including her westernized daughter, struggle to maintain normal lives. As Azumi 2 gets underway, remaining assassins Azumi and Read More

2005
Fukuro No Shiro

Actors: Shohei Hino, Shima Iwashita

Synopsis: This satirical spin on the ninja genre from veteran director Masahiro Shinoda opens in 1581 with the invasion of Iga, a "hidden land," by Oda, a rampaging warlord. 50,000 troops sweep through Iga -- a province already developing as a center for ninja arts -- slaughtering everyone and everything in Read More

2000
Hotaru

Actors: Toshiya Nagasawa, Miyako Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kitami, Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: Following up on her Camera d'Or-winning feature-film debut Suzaku and her understated documentary Somaudo Monogatari, Naomi Kawase spins this lyrical work about two troubled souls plagued by demons of their past. The film opens with Ayako (Yuko Nakamura) storming out of her tumble-down house after Read More

2000
Love/Juice

Actors: Toshiya Nagasawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis: Love, sex, and the confusing gray area in between marks the playing field for this low-key comedy-drama from Japan. Chinatsu (Okuno Mika) is a twenty-something lesbian who shares an apartment with Kyoko (Chika Fujimura). Chinatsu is attracted in passing to Kyoko, who occasionally returns her Read More

2000
Beat

Actors: Claude Maki, Yuki Uchida, Dean Stapleton, Naoto Hirata, Judy Motomura

Synopsis: Set in 1963 when the Japanese island of Okinawa was home to its native residents -- as well as Japanese colonists and American soldiers who were sent in increasing numbers to fight in Vietnam -- this drama recounts the racial tensions and chaos of those times as it tells the story of Takeshi, a Read More

1998
Onna Keiji Riko 2: Seibo No Shinki-en

Actors: Ryoko Takizawa, Toshiya Nagasawa, Toru Kazama, Takeo Nakahara, Yumi Aso

Synopsis: Satoshi Isaka directed this Japanese police procedural, the second in a series based on Yoshiki Shibata's novels about lesbian policewoman Riko. However, as adapted to film, Riko (Ryoko Takizawa) is seen to be very much heterosexual (evident in a bedroom scene with her lover). Riko is pregnant Read More

1998
Moonlight Serenade

Synopsis: Continuing the Setouchi trilogy -- which began with 1984's MacArthur's Children -- this film looks at Japan just after World War II. The film opens with documentary footage of the 1995 Hanshin earthquake that flattened Kobe. The devastation reminds an elderly Keita Onda of the ruined landscape of Read More

1997
Sleepy Heads

Actors: Eugene Nomura

Synopsis: A graduate from N.Y.U. and the School of Visual Arts, Yoshifumi Hosoya directs this cross-cultural comedy about a trio of Japanese slackers slumming it in the Big Apple. Hiroshi (Eugene Nomura), a struggling singer-songwriter, comes to New York to make it big. He soon finds himself living with two Read More

1997
Sharaku

Synopsis: The ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist Sharaku is an enigmatic puzzle in the world of Japanese art. Working at an age when such masters of the trade as Hokusai and Utamaro were at their zenith, Sharaku suddenly emerged out of obscurity and produced roughly 140 strikingly brilliant portraits Read More

1995
Das Geschriebene Gesicht

Synopsis: This Japanese-Swiss documentary is a lyrical meditation on the similarities between geishas and the male Kabuki dancers who play females in their traditional plays. Interspersed amongst the interviews of key figures from both fields are long clips of Kabuki performances, and others playing Read More

1995