Masatoshi Nagase

Masatoshi Nagase

Birthday: 1966-07-15

Place of Birth: Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Biography: Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏, Nagase Masatoshi, born July 15, 1966) is a Japanese actor.

Movies

Hotel Iris
Hotel Iris

Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and...

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Just Remembering
Just Remembering

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

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Mystery Train
Mystery Train

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric nigh...

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Party 7
Party 7

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room:...

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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhis...

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Noise
Noise

Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing popul...

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The Hidden Blade
The Hidden Blade

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

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Electric Dragon 80000V
Electric Dragon 80000V

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-me...

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Suicide Club
Suicide Club

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

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Autumn Moon
Autumn Moon

A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hon...

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Gelatin Silver, Love
Gelatin Silver, Love

The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment ...

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The Sea Is Watching
The Sea Is Watching

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Aga...

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Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers!
Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers!

Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home...

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Worst by Chance
Worst by Chance

Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar...

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Cold Fever
Cold Fever

A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a rem...

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Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special
Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special

Tamaki (Miho Nakayama) and Ako (Shizuka Kudo) are two friends living together. Although their person...

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The Box Man
The Box Man

A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the ...

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Stereo Future
Stereo Future

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a d...

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Angel
Angel

One day, an angel materializes before Kato's eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a...

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Smuggler
Smuggler

To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one li...

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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter n...

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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...

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Confession
Confession

In the silent mountains, surrounded by beautiful mountains on all sides. A man carrying an urn, Iori...

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Space Girl Morumo 1/10
Space Girl Morumo 1/10

Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro....

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The Stairway to the Distant Past
The Stairway to the Distant Past

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...

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The Trap
The Trap

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I wan...

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Chloe
Chloe

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life i...

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P. P. Rider
P. P. Rider

Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in ...

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The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who li...

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Beautiful Sunday
Beautiful Sunday

A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, th...

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Powder Road
Powder Road

The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. T...

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The War and a Woman
The War and a Woman

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woma...

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Luxurious Bone
Luxurious Bone

Miyako works as a call girl, living with her close friend Sakiko. After encountering a client, Shint...

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Summer of Ubume
Summer of Ubume

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sek...

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A Hundred Flowers
A Hundred Flowers

Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of t...

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Kano
Kano

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

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Jigen Daisuke
Jigen Daisuke

Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out t...

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Pistol Opera
Pistol Opera

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

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My Name Is Magokoro
My Name Is Magokoro

Taro Magokoro is an unsuccessful actor and lives a mundane life. This year, he turns 30....

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Family
Family

Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portra...

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A Class to Remember II
A Class to Remember II

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School....

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My Sons
My Sons

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has alway...

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Words with Gods
Words with Gods

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. C...

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A Forest with No Name
A Forest with No Name

Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigio...

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Enclosed Pain
Enclosed Pain

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act o...

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Dead End Run
Dead End Run

A collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Sogo Ishii. Each short focuses on the pr...

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Loved Gun
Loved Gun

A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we d...

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Everyday Mom
Everyday Mom

Rieko Saibara is a cartoonist and mother of a 6-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl. When she has a dif...

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Original Sin
Original Sin

Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an es...

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BeRLiN
BeRLiN

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to fi...

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Flirt
Flirt

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to ch...

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Aiki
Aiki

When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and ...

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Sakuran
Sakuran

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

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The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn
The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn

Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse tha...

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Mountain Woman
Mountain Woman

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...

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Miroku
Miroku

Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage ye...

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A Road Stained Crimson
A Road Stained Crimson

Professional killer Ken is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycl...

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The Furthest End Awaits
The Furthest End Awaits

Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views...

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Atlanta Boogie
Atlanta Boogie

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokoha...

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Dreaming Awake
Dreaming Awake

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his st...

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Hakuchi: The Innocent
Hakuchi: The Innocent

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only buildin...

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R246 STORY
R246 STORY

The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Ch...

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Miyuki
Miyuki

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Disconcerto
Disconcerto

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver fo...

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Gina K
Gina K

"Gina K" tells the story of the daughter of a famous stripper, who reveals her family history so she...

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Three Businessmen
Three Businessmen

An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in...

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Abduction
Abduction

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wize...

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Drive-In Gamo
Drive-In Gamo

Saki and Toshi were born and raised at the shabby "Drive in Gamo," located on the side of a road. Th...

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The Rainbow Seeker
The Rainbow Seeker

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi...

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Yûri
Yûri

Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend ...

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Mourning Work
Mourning Work

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Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch

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Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
Asian Beat: I Love Nippon

Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian count...

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Asian Beat: Love from Temasek
Asian Beat: Love from Temasek

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Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo com...

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Motorcycle Girl
Motorcycle Girl

The story of a girl riding a motorcycle and embarking on a journey to meet her distant father....

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Tampen
Tampen

Four short films produced without a director...

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Radio City Fantasy
Radio City Fantasy

Hiroshi is a high school student who dreams of one day writing a children's book. But knowing that d...

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Defeat the Devil!
Defeat the Devil!

A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa...

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Sweet Bean
Sweet Bean

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from...

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0cm⁴
0cm⁴

Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the...

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Last Shadow at First Light
Last Shadow at First Light

Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her...

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Brats, Be Ambitious!
Brats, Be Ambitious!

A countryside in 1988. Shun is crazy about fooling around with his best friends. Facing up with thei...

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Fantasmagorie~The Ghost Show
Fantasmagorie~The Ghost Show

Ena is a computer graphics artist. Working like a machine, she ultimately suffers from the rare digi...

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The Cross
The Cross

Shunsuke Fujii was a bullied middle school student. He took his own life. A letter left behind refer...

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Bitter Honey
Bitter Honey

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses,...

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Paterson
Paterson

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who l...

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Glassy Ocean
Glassy Ocean

On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean rema...

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Adabana
Adabana

In a not so distant future where lifespan extension has become a priority following the spread of a ...

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Black Widow Business
Black Widow Business

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev...

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64: Part 1
64: Part 1

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is call...

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64: Part 2
64: Part 2

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is call...

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Getting Wild With Our Monkey
Getting Wild With Our Monkey

A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the conditio...

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Radiance
Radiance

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and ...

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The Blue Hearts
The Blue Hearts

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short f...

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Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections
Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections

This omnibus film brings together three globally acclaimed directors from Asia with a common theme '...

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Happiness
Happiness

A mysterious man arrives in a quiet Japanese town. With him, he carries a strange helmet that allows...

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Our Time Will Come
Our Time Will Come

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

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Vision
Vision

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 yea...

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A Girl in the Apple Farm
A Girl in the Apple Farm

The Mikami family lives within the foot of Mount Iwaki. The Mikami family makes a living by running ...

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Punk Samurai Slash Down
Punk Samurai Slash Down

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious ...

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Butterfly Sleep
Butterfly Sleep

Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Mats...

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The Experimental Film
The Experimental Film

An experimental drama with the motif of "experimental film". What does it mean to be reproduced on f...

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Zen and Bones
Zen and Bones

The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own l...

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Talking the Pictures
Talking the Pictures

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie t...

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Buyusenki Battle Chronicle
Buyusenki Battle Chronicle

Motorcycles, drugs, and gangs terrorize Japan. The man who dreamed of a life of peace has instead be...

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Red Snow
Red Snow

Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn co...

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BOLT
BOLT

Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging th...

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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi...

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The First Supper
The First Supper

Rintaro (Sometani Shota) returns home for the first time in a while to prepare for and attend his fa...

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Fancy
Fancy

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

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Tracing Her Shadow
Tracing Her Shadow

An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. ...

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Asian Beat: Powder Road
Asian Beat: Powder Road

The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. T...

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Love's Twisting Path
Love's Twisting Path

Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal ...

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Asian Beat: Shadow of Nocturne
Asian Beat: Shadow of Nocturne

A story that reveals the secrets of two women with a very similar face, a club singer with a mysteri...

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Asian Beat: Sunrise in Kampung
Asian Beat: Sunrise in Kampung

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We Are Little Zombies
We Are Little Zombies

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This i...

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Just the Two of Us
Just the Two of Us

Shunsaku was paralyzed from the neck down at the young age of 36 by a spinal injury suffered in a mo...

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Child of the Stars
Child of the Stars

When Chihiro was a baby, she suffered from eczema. Her parents tried to find a cure, but nothing wor...

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Five to Nine
Five to Nine

An omnibus film that compresses 16 hours into one, offering glimpses of what happens beyond the mono...

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Living in the Sky
Living in the Sky

In the time after Naomi's parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor ...

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Malu
Malu

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

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A Madder Red
A Madder Red

7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her...

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Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
Namonaihi: A Day with No Name

A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri,...

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Sakura
Sakura

Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking g...

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Hotel New Moon
Hotel New Moon

Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign gu...

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GOLDFISH
GOLDFISH

"Guns" was a punk band that became a social phenomenon in the 1980s. At the height of their populari...

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Gosh!!
Gosh!!

Life seems pretty normal at the Forensics Division. Ippei's canine partner, Oliver, appears to him a...

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Kokuho
Kokuho

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing ...

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Ikimono no kiroku
Ikimono no kiroku

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Oshare dorobō
Oshare dorobō

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Hokusai's Daughter
Hokusai's Daughter

The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan....

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Yakushima's Illusion
Yakushima's Illusion

Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation rem...

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Numb
Numb

A boy who no longer speaks, shaped by a tyrannical father and a mother he both resents and loves, gr...

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