Masatoshi Nagase
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is a Japanese actor and singer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Nagase was described by Todd Brown of Twitch Film as "one of the great unsung heroes of Japanese film, a hugely reliable character actor with seemingly unerring taste in projects who - despite a huge body of work - remains largely unknown by name."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Career
Nagase co-starred in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989) with Youki Kudoh.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has starred in films such as Sion Sono's Suicide Club (2001),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Yoji Yamada's The Hidden Blade (2004).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Filmography
Film
- P.P. Rider (1983)
- Miyuki (1983), Masato Wakamatsu
- Mystery Train (1989)
- Bakayarou! 3: Hen na Yatsura (1990)
- My Sons (1991)
- Autumn Moon (1992)
- Tora-San Makes Excuses
- Original Sin (1992)
- The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993)
- Outobai Shoujo (1994)
- The Stairway to the Distant Past (1994)
- Powder Road (1994)
- Cold Fever (1995)
- Flirt (1995)
- Berlin (1995)
- Trap (1996)
- Gakko II (1996)
- Niji o Tsukamu Otoko (1996)
- Ullie (1996)
- Abduction (1997)
- Beautiful Sunday (1998)
- Three Businessmen (1998)
- Gojoe (2000)
- Party 7 (2000)
- A Closing Day (2000)
- Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
- Chloe (2001)
- Luxurious Bone (2001)
- Pistol Opera (2001)
- Stereo Future (2001)
- Suicide Club (2002)
- Getting Wild with Our Monkey (2002)
- Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002)
- The Sea Is Watching (2002)
- Dead End Run (2003)
- The Loved Gun (2004)
- The Hidden Blade (2004)
- Gina K (2005)
- Ubume no Natsu (2005)
- The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko (2006)
- Sakuran (2006)
- Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)
- Dreaming Awake (2008)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- R246 Story (2008)
- Gelatin Silver, Love (2009)
- Kaasan, Mom's Life (2011)
- Smuggler (2011)
- The Sea Is Watching (2012)
- A Road Stained Crimson (2012)
- A Woman and War (2013)
- Kano (2014) – Hyōtarō Kondō
- Sweet Bean (2015)
- Black Widow Business (2016) – Honda
- Jūjika (2016) – Shunsuke's father
- Happiness (2016) – Kanzaki
- 64: Part I (2016)
- 64: Part II (2016)
- Paterson (2016)
- Radiance (2017)
- The Blue Hearts (2017)
- Red Snow (2018)
- Vision (2018)
- Butterfly Sleep (2018)
- Punk Samurai Slash Down (2018)
- Talking the Pictures (2019)
- We Are Little Zombies (2019)
- Love's Twisting Path (2019)
- Hotel New Moon (2019)
- They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)
- The First Supper (2019)
- Fancy (2020)
- Sakura (2020) – Akio Hasegawa
- Just the Two of Us (2020)
- Under the Stars (2020)
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- Bolt (2020)
- Tracing Her Shadow (2020)
- Malu (2020)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- A Day with No Name (2021)
- A Madder Red (2021) – Nakamura<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Hotel Iris (2021)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Noise (2022)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Just Remembering (2022) – Jun<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- A Hundred Flowers (2022)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn (2022) – Kiyoshi Ogawa<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Brats, Be Ambitious! (2023) – Makio<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Mountain Woman (2023)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Goldfish (2023) – Ichi<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Jigen Daisuke (2023) – Takeshi Kawashima<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Family (2023)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Last Shadow at First Light (2023)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Daisuke Jigen (2023)
- The Box Man (2024)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Adabana (2024)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Gosh!! (2025)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Kokuho (2025) – Gongorō Tachibana<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- I Live in Fear (2025)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Hokusai's Daughter (2025) – Hokusai<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Yakushima's Illusion (2026)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Numb (TBA) – Ohara<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Television
- Abunai Deka (1987)
- Waru (1992)
- The Private Detective Mike (2002) – Mike Hama
- Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses (2021)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Awards
- 1992: 16th Elan d'or Awards - Newcomer of the Year<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1992: 15th Japan Academy Film Prize - Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer (My Sons)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2008: 29th Yokohama Film Festival - Best Supporting Actor (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2010: Japanese Film Critics Awards - Best Actor (Mainichi Kaasan)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2016: 37th Yokohama Film Festival - Best Actor (An)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2022: Nippon Connection - Nippon Honor Award<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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References
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