Masami Nagasawa

Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will... (imdb)

In 1980s Kyushu, two teenagers fell in love, and exchanged their secrets and thoughts by way of sending tape recordings to each other. More than a decade later, the boy (now grown-up and bittered) rediscovers the last recording of his long-dead lover's voice. Her words trigger a series of flashbacks illustrating the joyful beginning and tragic end of their relationship. (imdb)

In the Sengoku period, the Yamana Army searches for treasure and more at Akizuki castle. But when treasure hunter Musashi and woodsman Shinpachi find the treasure by chance only to get held up by a man named Rokurota Makabe, they find themselves embroilled in a plot. Rokurota has a plan to bring the treasure to Hayakawa (alliance partner of Akizuki) so Musashi claims a share of the treasure instead of staging a plan to get it back. (sensasian.com)

Deciding to get away from it all, Hinami starts work part-time on a sugarcane in Okinawa. Their job is to cut all 70,000 sugar cane plants by the end of March, but that deadline seems less plausible because of the physical labor as well as Yutaka's leadership. (whatismyname)

In the town of Aso a boy returns to his mother after he was missing for 58 years. Inspector Kawada from the welfare ministry is sent to the town to investigate these strange occurence. Soon, more and more dead people are resurrected and return to their loved ones. (imdb)

A young boy makes a promise to his dying mother to look after his abandoned step-sister at all costs. But the love between them grows so strong and profound, it threatens to tear them apart... (YesAsia)

A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death. (imdb)

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

Following in his father's footsteps, anime director Goro Miyazaki sets his story of young love and student protest against the period of Japanese modernization and revitalization ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. With charm and tragedy, Miyazaki takes a nostalgic look back at a time when the preservation of the past clashed with progress for the future. (tiff.net)

Moteki is the story of a 31 year-old virgin Yukiyo Fujimoto, a young fellow with no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love continues to elude him. At the nadir of his loneliness and social isolation, comes the arrival of his "Moteki" - a period of sexual magnetism and romantic irreversibility.

The adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. (Wikipedia)

Two former partners in a failed comedy double-act plan to reunite for one last shot at success.

Twin brothers, Tatsuya (Shota Saito) and Kazuya (Keita Saito), grew up with their next door neighbor Minami (Masami Nagasawa) like siblings. Minami's dream is that her school's baseball team will participate in the national Koshien High School Baseball Tournament. The twin brothers make a pact that they will take Minami to the tournament. (asianwiki)

Yuki Hirano (Sometani), is the sort of slide-by student most teachers are happy to see the back of. But after he fails his college entrance exams and is dumped by his girlfriend, this new high school graduate decides to make a fresh start and join a one-year trainee program for forestry workers, aka lumberjacks. His motivation is less a love for the great outdoors than a pretty face on a recruiting pamphlet. (Japan Times Site)

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister. (imdb)

Four women try to cope with the fact that their father, though in his 70's, has taken a lover, despite continuing to live together with their mother. In the meantime the sisters have to deal with their own relationships as well.

In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan. (imdb)

A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping. (imdb)

One day, after returning from work late in the evening, Hideo witnesses a traffic accident in which a car crashes into a nearby pedestrian, killing the victim instantly. However, despite severe injuries including a broken neck, the victim's body stands up and walks away. Hideo questions whether this is another one of his hallucinations, but strange events begin happening around him. (imdb)

Mitsuha is the daughter of the mayor of a small mountain town. She's a straightforward high school girl who lives with her sister and her grandmother and has no qualms about letting it be known that she's uninterested in Shinto rituals or helping her father's electoral campaign. Instead she dreams of leaving the boring town and trying her luck in Tokyo. Taki is a high school boy in Tokyo who works part-time in an Italian restaurant and aspires to become an architect or an artist. (imdb)

Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies. (imdb)

In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can. (imdb)

Asako determines to live her life with her own will after witness her best friend's divorce and former manager's death. (imdb)

Ichigo Kurosaki is a High School student, living in Karakura town. He is able to see ghosts, as well as hollows. Later, he meets up with Rukia Kuchiki, a Death God or Soul Reaper (Shinigami in Japanese). Later, he finds out that he himself is a Soul Reaper as well. Ichigo Kurosaki, now with the power of a Soul Reaper, is able to protect Karakura town from hollows.

Meeting the woman of your dreams in Hawaii is a blessing until you discover she has short-term memory loss and forgets everything the very next day. (imdb)

The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis. (imdb)

Yukari Kawahara (Masami Nagasawa) works at a drink manufacturer. She works hard and achieves recognition for her work. Yukari Kawahara is dating research doctor Kippei Koide (Issey Takahashi). They have lived together for 5 years. One day, Kippei Koide collapses from a brain hemorrhage. Yukari Kawahara soon learns that everything she knew about her boyfriend was a lie. She hires private detective Takumi Kaibara (Kôtarô Yoshida) to investigate Kippei Koide. (imdb)

Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at where the next murder will take place. An investigation begins of the serial killer and Detective Kosuke Nitta works on the case. He believes the next murder will take place at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. To catch the killer, Kosuke Nitta goes undercover and begins working at the front desk of the hotel. Naomi Yamagishi works at the front desk of Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo... (imdb)

In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.

Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei kills his grandparents. (imdb)

A major crime occurs in Tokyo when detectives Tang Ren and Qin Feng are invited to investigate the crime by Noda Hiroshi. A battle between the strongest detectives in Asia is about to break out with bursts of laughter (IMDb).

A romantic love story of Satoshi, Karin and Yuji - who were friends in their childhood and suddenly bump back into each others' life after 13 years of parted away. Gentle, moving and meaningful, that what love is in "Say hello for me". (imdb)

As the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere. (imdb)

Kenji Sakuragi is a lawyer and former member of a motorcycle gang. He takes on the challenge of preparing a special class for a famous (ly) stupid school, Ryuzan, to enter the prestigious Todai University. (imdb)

New Year's Eve. Izumi finds his mother Yuriko wandering in a park in the freezing cold. Diagnosed with dementia, her mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son, memories of the mother who raised him on her own feel as vivid as the day he lived through them, especially that of the time she had disappeared from his world, which haunts him to this day. As Yuriko slips slowly into oblivion, Izumi must come to terms with losing his mother again, this time forever. In his path to finding forgivenes

A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song.

This is a romantic comedy in which a young man who missed a chance to confess his love, is given a second chance and struggles to undo the past and win the heart of the woman on the day she is getting married to someone else. (imdb)

A Japanese college student runaway gets involved with a reformed Taiwanese hoodlum who was recently released after serving five years in jail. (imdb)

Dako is a con woman who takes money from wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan and Richard to carry their plans using fantastic teamwork. (imdb)

It tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru's mother has brought a man back to their home, and she is bullied at her workplace, where she works as a beauty parlour assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and is the only person who can give her emotional support but she ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. (imdb)

Asahi Mikuriya who works at a photo studio located near the sea dreamed of becoming a famous photographer, but now he works as a cameraman for weddings and school events. He was also in love with a woman, but she suddenly left him. (imdb)

Detective Tsukiko Otonashi, who is obsessed with the "Toshi Densetsu" manga, believes all kinds of crimes are somehow linked to urban legends. (imdb)

Two women (both played by Nagasawa Masami), who look identical, search for the secret behind their births and, in the process, discover about forbidden medical technologies and the mystery of life. (imdb)

Egami Mei is a genius surgeon, but is somehow still lacking. On other hand, his younger sister Satsuki is poor at studying. (imdb)

Hatachi no Koibito tells the story of Inoue Keisuke, a married salaryman. At the age of 50, he begins thinking about his purpose in life. By chance, he encounters Sawada Yuri, a 20-year-old graphic design student full of hopes and dreams for the future. Because of her resemblance to his girlfriend from long ago, he finds his heart unexpectedly beating faster. (imdb)

This is the story about one small coffee shop located on the northern island of Hokkaido. Yukichi Wakui used to work as a successful businessman at a prestigious trading firm. He worked for several years in New York as well as other cities around the world. When his wife Megumi died at the age of 47 in a car accident three years ago, he decided to leave the company.

Yoshie and Tadahiko are married. They have a 5-year-old daughter named Mei, but she dies. After the loss of her daughter, Yoshie goes into a spiral of despair. One day, she finds a doll resembling Mei at an antique market and buys it. (imdb)