Masatoshi Nagase

All Movies of Masatoshi Nagase

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 Year

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  Mountain Woman
  Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
   2022

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  A Hundred Flowers
  Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.
   2022

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  Malu
  Mysterious poetic story of long-lasting discord between beautiful sisters unfolds in Malaysia and Japan.
   2020

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  Living in Your Sky
  Naomi is an editor for a small publishing house. After losing her parents in an accident, she moves into a luxury apartment thanks to her uncle. She starts a new life with her cat Haru in a house overlooking Tokyo. One day, he mee...
  Character: Pet Undertaker

   2020

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  Talking the Pictures
  A century ago in the period of silent motion pictures, the katsudo-benshi , known as katsuben, aroused audiences by providing live narration to films. A young man, dreaming to become a pro katsuben, works as an assistant in a thea...
   2019

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  Punk Samurai Slash Down
  In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soo...
   2018

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  5.5
  Vision
  Jeanne, a French journalist, comes to Japan in search of 'Vision', a rare medicinal herb said to strip away all spiritual anguish and weaknesses in human beings. She knows that 'Vision' only appears once every 997 years under spec...
   2018

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  6.0
  Radiance
  A love story between a photographer who is losing his sight and a young woman disconnected from society.
   2017

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  Gosaigyô no Onna
  A predatory middle-aged woman and her partner prey upon aging older men of a certain wealth. The idea is as old as the history of mankind itself: take the man's money in exchange for something pretty on his arm's and a goo...
  Character: Yoshinori Honda

   2016

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  8.5
  Paterson
  Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey - they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield an...
  Character: Japanese Poet

   2016

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  Rokuyon: Zenpen
  1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 ...
  Character: Yoshio Amamiya

   2016

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  Bitter Honey
  Akago (Fumi Nikaido) is a red goldfish able to change into a girl. She possesses a pure and sensuous side. She lives with an old male writer (Ren Osugi) whom she calls “Ojisama.” One day, the ghost of Yuriko Tamura (Yoko Maki)...
   2016

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  7.0
  An
  The "manager" of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. A taste of her home-made bean jelly convinces him, starting a relationship that is about much more than
   2015

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  The Furthest End Awaits
  Misaki returns to the hometown of his father, after he is reported to be dead. There she sets a coffee shop in the middle of the coast and a relationship with her neighbour Eriko and their children evolves.
   2014

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  Words with Gods
  Composed of 10 short films on the major religions in the world. The directors are: Jose Padilha (Brazil), Warwick Thornton (Australia), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran), Mira Nair (India), Hideo Nakata (Japan), Emir Kusturica (Serbia) and Gu...
   2014

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  Sakuran
  In an 18th-century Yoshiwara brothel, Tsuchiya exploits sex to seduce powerful men and seize her freedom.
   2006

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  7.0
  The Hidden Blade
  Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the samurai is fading, as Western influences and corruption are slowl...
   2004

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  7.1
  Loved Gun
  There's more to the work of a hitman than meets the eye, as frail but deadly veteran Maruyama has learnt over many years of professional practise. The emotions of the gunman are so closely linked to the act of killing that they co...
  Character: Hayamada

   2004

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  7.0
  The Sea Is Watching
  Character: Ryôsuke

   2002

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  Kuroe (Chloe)
  When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it is love at first sight. They resolve to spend the rest of their lives together. But one day, Kuroe collapses and X-rays reveal something resembling a flower budding in her lung. She refuses surgery and ...
   2001

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  6.5
  Party 7
  Character: Shunichirô Miki

   2000

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  Beautiful Sunday
  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 ...
   1998

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  Abduction
  The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at the center of a nation-wide television sensation.
   1997

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  A Class to Remember 2
   1996

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  Cold Fever
  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 ...
   1995

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  7.1
  Original Sin
  Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
  Character: Makoto Hirano

   1992

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  Autumn Moon
  A young, video-camera-wielding Japanese tourist traveling alone in Hong Kong pursues a tentative relationship with a Chinese teenager, soon to join her family in Canada. Wai invites the young man to join her for a spectacular home...
   1992

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  My Sons
   1991

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  Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
  The third installment in the omnibus comedy series, describing how the hero exploits his anger and dissatisfaction and yells "Bakayaro" under the theme of stress in modern society. A man stuck in a traffic jam is the main characte...
  Character: Tadashi Okajima (Episode 4)

   1990

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  7.0
  Mystery Train
  Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqué Lee. A young Japanese couple arrives in Memphis to t...
   1989