Masatoshi Nagase

The place is the down side of Yokohama. The atmosphere is international and the action fast. The hero is Maiku Hama - a delinquent turned private eye who operates out of the second floor of the local movie theater. (Tidepoint Pictures)

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

In the 19th century a young samurai ducks into a brothel after an illegal fight and a young prostitute helps him evade the authorities. When he befriends her and tells her she can remake herself despite her profession she comes to believe he loves and will marry her. The other prostitutes unite to support her in her expected happiness. Though things don't turn out as she expected, in the midst of a fierce storm and flood love saves the young woman from a watery grave. (eiga.wikia.com)

A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides. (imdb)

A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins... (imdb)

Hirata finds himself canceling his vacation plans to Hawaii when his grandfather reminds him of his duty to his parents... (imdb)

Munezo Katagiri (Nagase), an honest and low ranking samurai is trapped in a state of personal and professional imbalance. Secretly in love with his family's maid, Kie (Tabata), Munezo begins an uneasy courtship with her, knowing that a relationship is impossible. Raised to respect traditions from the past and the demanding moral code of the samurai, circumstances have now forced Munezo to look to the future... (Tartan Films)

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as "the demons". Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror. (imdb)

A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he's climbing a tall cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences intense fits of violence in which bolts of electricity burt from his fists. Elsewhere in Tokyo, there is an electronics wizard who also happens to be a vigilante with a taste for electric weapons. When the pair catch each other's attention, the result is a battle that will light up the city. (imdb)

Based on manga writer/artist Anno Moyoco's "joyosei" (young woman's) comic series "Sakuran", the story tells of a young girl sold to a brothel in the red-light district of Yoshiwara by her indifferent mother (during the late Edo period) and her struggles to adapt to life as a Oiran (courtesan). (IMDB Comments)

Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Funuke family members who return home to bury their parents. (imdb)

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film's obnoxious ham of a star. Meanwhile, Keisuke has been dumped by his girlfriend, Eri, after she becomes heartbroken when he considers working full-time as a bar manager rather than pursuing his dream... (imdb)

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 money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. (imdb)

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. (imdb)

Stairway to the Distant Past is a witty, action-packed homage/spoof to French New Wave cinema, American film noir, and Japanese gangster films. Private Detective Mike Hama is practically homeless. Things change, however, with the arrival of Lily, a beautiful and mysterious stripper whose true identity may hold the secret to Mike's past. Hayashi brings part two of his acclaimed series to life with vivid color and graphic violence captured in an ironic and highly stylized way. (rottentomatoes.com)

A young Japanese man traveling in Hong Kong strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese woman. Through their story, the subtle relationships between generations and the clash between Asian cultures are explored with warmth, charm and humor. (HKFlix)

Masatoshi Nagase plays a photographer hired to secretly follow a mysterious woman (Rie Miyazawa). Observing and shooting photos of her day in and day out from an apartment across from hers, he slowly becomes obsessed with her, and even attempts to get information about her from his client (Koji Yakusho). One day, he snaps a strange photo of the woman at a car wreck. Soon after, he hears about a serial murder case... (YesAsia)

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. (nytimes.com)

Lives of a young girl and a hitman crosses paths, as both have their agendas and ghosts from their pasts haunting them.

3 short stories of how the guys found themselves at the dead end. in the first part a guy kills a girl by mistake and this is the first sight love. The second one is a psychological duel, and the final story is about who wants to die most

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 pair of big white wings. Only lonely-hearted people can see her. She may seem ordinary, but this angel touches hearts and transforms lives (imdb)

A detective down on his luck is sent to retrieve a girl from a mysterious resort-cum-cult-commune.

Stuck with a wrongly accrued yakuza debt, failed actor Kinuta (Satoshi Tsumabuki) gets a loan from a mysterious goth-Lolita banker, but in order to repay it he must work with silent tough guy Joe (Masatoshi Nagase) and his leprechaun-like sidekick, transporting sensitive items in the dead of night for shady clients with lots of yen. (Mubi.com)

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. (KG)

On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it. (imdb)

During his stay in a seaside village, Japan's favorite drifter meets a lonely female barber with marriage on her mind.

In the movie, Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) is finally making it big in the detective biz. Financially well off and up to his neck in new clientele, things seem to be looking up. However, when he receives a strange request from a hooded character, "I want you to look for me". Never one to back down from a challenge, Hama gets mixed up in the work of a serial killer that has Yokohama paralyzed with fear. (eigapedia.com)

When the leader of a vicious yakuza motorcycle gang gives up his violent ways to start a family, an act of brutal treachery transforms him into a force of pure vengeance. Armed with swords and baseball bats, the "Buyusenki" gang takes what they please as they terrorize the Kanto region. But their leader, Kyosuke Jinnai, has grown tired of the violence. In a bid to start a new life with his pregnant girlfriend, Kyosuke turns his back on the gang - a decision that will come back to haunt him whenï (rottentomatoes)

An up-and-coming female writer and her younger brother are tied together by memories of their past, but she wants to escape her memories and starts writing them down. (kinoaero.cz/en/film/3007/Enclosed-Pain/)

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 just street food. (imdb)

Set in the present in Paterson, New Jersey, this is a tale about a bus driver and poet. (imdb)

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

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 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. (imdb)

In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly. (letterboxd)

Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori's photographs, who will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes. (mk2 films)

1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city.

Binoche plays a French essayist who visits Nara, Kawase's birthplace and long-time base, where she encounters Nagase's character, a mysterious mountain man who connects with her despite barriers of language and culture. (variety.com)

On a small island somewhere in northern Japan, a child has disappeared. Although just a small village, apparently no one knows anything, and the case is closed. But thirty years later a journalist decides to start a new investigation at his own risk. Captivating mystery set in a village that seems doomed to be buried under a thick layer of snow, sorrows and lies. (Camera Japan)

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salaryman who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.

A man owns a helmet which makes you remember your happiest moment of your live. What could be wrong with such innocent object?

A color-blind man decides to have an operation to cure his vision. (imdb)

A large earthquake strikes a part of Japan. The shaking loosens a bolt at a nuclear power plant causing coolant to begin leaking from the pipes of a pressure control tank. A man and his colleague go to tighten the bolt, but this catastrophe will act as the trigger that throws the man's life into chaos. (JFDB)

A series of anthology-style programs featuring strange tales which originally ran on Fuji TV, hosted by the famous comedian, Tamori.

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.

Hiroshi is a high school student who dreams of one day writing a children's book. But knowing that dreams need money to become a reality, he works hard and saves for the day when he can be a writer. A chance meeting with Hiroko on the subway leads to love and is vital in helping him finally realize his ambitions.

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

Reiko is a mother of two children and works as a cartoonist. She divorces her alcoholic husband, but when she finds out that he's seriously ill, she decides to take him back.

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

The story is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22-year-old man.

A nameless man gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, to meet a range of characters as he wanders in Tokyo. (imdb)

Based on novelist Muro Saisei's 1959 book, Bitter Honey narrates the story of a poet who informed by his physician of his impending death finds renewed flights of fantasy. He is visited by a thin and attractive girl in red who becomes a catalyst for romance. The girl has to vie with competition for the artist's attention, however, as other women work in the wings.

Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form. (imdb)