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Tag Archives: Masatoshi Nagase
Suicide Club AKA Jisatsu sâkuru (2001) Sion Sono, Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho
54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. Read More »
My Sons AKA Musuko (1991) Yôji Yamada, Rentarô Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase, Emi Wakui
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. Read More »
The Stairway to the Distant Past AKA Harukana jidai no kaidan o (1995) Kaizô Hayashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. Read More »
Radiance AKA Hikari (2017) Naomi Kawase, Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki, Tatsuya Fuji
At a firm specializing in creating audio descriptions for films to serve the visually impaired Read More »
Luxurious Bone AKA Zeitaku na hone (2001) Isao Yukisada, Kumiko Asô, Tsugumi, Masatoshi Nagase
Two young women and a sex date who turns out to be an alright guy. Read More »
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name AKA Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku: Namae no nai mori (2002) Shinji Aoyama, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyôka Suzuki, Nene Ohtsuka
Financially strapped private detective Hama Maike is hired by a businessman Read More »
Loved Gun (2004) Kensaku Watanabe, Masatoshi Nagase, Aoi Miyazaki, Hirofumi Arai
Loved Gun is a story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. Read More »
Cold Fever (1995) Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens
Hirata finds himself canceling his vacation plans to Hawaii when his grandfather reminds him of his duty to his parents. Read More »
The Hidden Blade (2004) Yôji Yamada, Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo Read More »
Original Sin / Shinde mo ii (1992) Takashi Ishii, Shinobu Ohtake, Masatoshi Nagase, Hideo Murota, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Continuing his penchant for directing films in the characteristically Japanese genre he virtually created, director Takashi Ishii here presents yet another stylish rape/thriller. Nami is an attractive woman, and she loves her husband, who runs the real estate agency she works at. One day, during a rainstorm, a mysterious drifter stumbles into her and, following her on her way back to the office, asks for (and gets) a job from her husband, over her protests. Not long after that, Nami and the newcomer are trading amorous glances. When the drifter gets her alone in a model house, he rapes her on the floor. For some reason, this doesn’t offend Nami, and she encourages the socially backward man to take her to bed often. Eventually, the two of them decide to do away with her husband, despite the fact that Nami still loves him.
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