Masatoshi Nagase
Japanese actor
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Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏, Nagase Masatoshi; born July 15, 1966) is a Japanese actor and singer.[1] He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train.[2]
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Masatoshi Nagase | |
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Nagase at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival, 2017. | |
| Born | July 15, 1966 Miyakonojō, Miyazaki, Japan |
| Occupations | Actor, singer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
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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."[3]
Career
Nagase co-starred in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989) with Youki Kudoh.[4] He has starred in films such as Sion Sono's Suicide Club (2001),[5] Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002),[6] and Yoji Yamada's The Hidden Blade (2004).[7]
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)[8]
- 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)
- Living in the Sky (2020)[9]
- Bolt (2020)
- Tracing Her Shadow (2020)
- Malu (2020)[10]
- A Day with No Name (2021)
- A Madder Red (2021) – Nakamura[11]
- Hotel Iris (2021)[12]
- Noise (2022)[13]
- Just Remembering (2022) – Jun[14]
- A Hundred Flowers (2022)[15]
- The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn (2022) – Kiyoshi Ogawa[16]
- Brats, Be Ambitious! (2023) – Makio[17]
- Mountain Woman (2023)[18]
- Goldfish (2023) – Ichi[19]
- Jigen Daisuke (2023) – Takeshi Kawashima[20]
- Family (2023)[21]
- Last Shadow at First Light (2023)[22]
- Daisuke Jigen (2023)
- The Box Man (2024)[23]
- Adabana (2024)[24]
- Gosh!! (2025)[25]
- Kokuho (2025) – Gongorō Tachibana[26]
- I Live in Fear (2025)[27]
- Hokusai's Daughter (2025) – Hokusai[28]
- Yakushima's Illusion (2026)[29]
- Numb (2026) – Ohara[30]
Television
- Abunai Deka (1987)
- Waru (1992)
- The Private Detective Mike (2002) – Mike Hama
- Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses (2021)[31]
Awards
- 1992: 16th Elan d'or Awards - Newcomer of the Year[32]
- 1992: 15th Japan Academy Film Prize - Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer (My Sons)[33]
- 2008: 29th Yokohama Film Festival - Best Supporting Actor (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!)[34]
- 2010: Japanese Film Critics Awards - Best Actor (Mainichi Kaasan)[35]
- 2016: 37th Yokohama Film Festival - Best Actor (An)[36]
- 2022: Nippon Connection - Nippon Honor Award[37]