Masatoshi Nagase Movies

Mystery Train

76/100

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.

Suicide Circle

66/100

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

Sweet Bean

73/100

The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which ... See full summary »

The Hidden Blade - Das verborgene Schwert

78/100

A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.

Electric Dragon 80.000 V

70/100

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Kano

78/100

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

Cold Fever

71/100

A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.

The Sea Is Watching

71/100

19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful ... See full summary »

Pistol Opera

64/100

The No. 3 assassin of Japan is given the chance to usurp No. 1 and take their place.

Radiance

64/100

A passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.

Gojô reisenki: Gojoe

64/100

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 ... See full summary »

Party 7

65/100

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

Smuggler

65/100

This live-action film adaptation of Shohei Manabe's Smuggler manga is not to be missed! Ryosuke Kinuta is a failed actor with big time debts...

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

71/100

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

Qiu yue

71/100

Twentysomething Japanese tourist, Tokio, comes to Hong Kong looking for good cusine. He does all that the tourist is expected to do...

Loved Gun

71/100

The Stairway to the Distant Past

70/100

Vision

53/100

-The confrontation of a man and a woman and her research, in the forest of Nara, a grass that returns all 997 years.

Wana

68/100

Japan's favorite hard-boiled detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) returns for the third time in this crime drama. A crazed killer has been poisoning women around the city and planting ... See full summary »

Kamiya Etsuko no seishun

74/100

Before taking off on a kamikaze suicide bombing mission, Second Lieutenant Nagayo arranges a marriage between his girlfriend Etsuko and Second Lieutenant Akashi, his navy officer friend.

Original Sin

71/100

The War and a Woman

65/100

Tora-San Makes Excuses

68/100

Five to Nine

59/100

An omnibus film that compresses 16 hours into one, offering glimpses of what happens beyond the monotony from 9am to 5pm.

Asia sanmenkyô

58/100

Shiniuma - Dead Horse - Brillante Ma Mendoza: The story begins at Banei racetrack in Obihiro, Hokkaido, in the midst of winter. Marcial (Manny) has won a race and is happily on his way home... See full summary »