Masatoshi Nagase

The legendary gunman Daisuke Jigen comes to Japan to have his pistol examined.

In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same ...

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close ...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who’s stolen a suitcase of ...

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many ...

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the ...

A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.

Protagonist Ryoko is played by Machiko Ono, one of Japan’s most talented and accomplished actresses, who made her screen debut in Naomi Kawase’s ...

One day, an angel materializes before Kato’s eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a ...

A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he’s climbing a cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences intense fits of violence in which ...

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken ...

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the ...

An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese ...

Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has ...