Masatoshi Nagase
12 titles
Filmography
12 results

Kano
(2014)The soon-to-be-legendary Kagi Agricultural and Forestry School baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

Radiance
(2017)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 Nakamoriās photographs, which strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they learn to see the radiant world that had been invisible to her eyes.

Last Shadow at First Light
(2025)Haunted by recurring apparitions, 16-year-old Ami embarks on a mystical journey to Japan in search of her mother who went missing in a tsunami.

Mystery Train
(1989)Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams--which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. This triptych of stories pays playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King, who presides over the film like a spirit.

Sweet Bean
(2015)Grumpy Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki, pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (āanā). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen, he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands. Thanks to her secret recipe, the little business flourishes.

Suicide Club
(2001)A wave of unexplainable suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling high school girls join hands and throw themselves from a subway platform into an oncoming train. Detective Kuroda (Auditionās Ryo Ishibashi) and the rest of the police force are baffled as the bloodbath triggers a wave of suicides across the city.

Family
(2023)Makoto and his mother leave their old lives behind for a new town. Kenji lives a quiet life with Haruka, but there is a secret she keeps close. Takeo is a widower who drives his children to the beach. Yuichi returns to his hometown, and is led into the woods by a woman. Four men, four families. This tapestry of lives intricately weaves together in a gentle ode to new life rising from the ashes.

Jigen Daisuke
(2023)Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the worldās best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person heās been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who comes to Chiharuās shop looking for a gun. Jigen finds out about Oto's secrets and the mysterious organization thatās after her. After Oto is kidnapped, Jigen gets into a desperate battle to save her.

Hotel New Moon
(2020)A single motherās quiet life unravels when a stranger arrives, exposing long-buried secrets that change her and her daughterās world forever.

A Hundred Flowers
(2022)As an aging Yuriko loses her memory, her son Izumi confronts his own sense of disorientation while uncovering buried secrets from her past.

Sakuran
(2006)The Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, where there is everything a man and a woman could wish. Amidst its numberless women of the night, and the highest-ranked courtesans, known as oiran, one in this teeming quarter is destined to become a legend. She is the dynamic Kiyoha, who snaps āGet cute with me, will you?ā and flies at a prostitute who has displeased her.

Our Time Will Come
(2017)In the 1940s Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, a brave woman, Fang Gu, leads the fight for freedom, in this historical drama from legendary auteur Ann Hui. Together with a band of resistance groups and like-minded youths, Fang battles in the struggle to escape the powerful Japanese forces.