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Masatoshi Nagase
is a Japanese actor. He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's ''Cold Fever'' and Jim Jarmusch's ''Mystery Train''. 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." Career Nagase co-starred in Jim Jarmusch's ''Mystery Train'' (1989) with Youki Kudoh. He has starred in films such as Sion Sono's '' Suicide Club'' (2001), Shinji Aoyama's '' Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name'' (2002), and Yoji Yamada's ''The Hidden Blade'' (2004). Filmography Film * ''Shonben 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'' (1994) * ''Outobai Shoujo' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. Tokyo Grand Prix winners Best Director Award *1985 - Péter Gothár, '' Time Stands S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hidden Blade
is a 2004 film set in 1860s Japan, directed by Yoji Yamada. The plot revolves around several samurai during a time of change in the ruling and class structures of Japan. The film was written by Yamada with Yoshitaka Asama and, like its predecessor ''The Twilight Samurai'' (2002), based on a short story by Shūhei Fujisawa. The soundtrack is an original composition by Isao Tomita. Plot The story takes place in Japan in the 1860s, a time of cultural assimilation. Two samurai, Munezo Katagiri (Masatoshi Nagase) and Samon Shimada (Hidetaka Yoshioka), bid farewell to their friend Yaichiro Hazama (Yukiyoshi Ozawa), who is to serve in Edo (present-day Tokyo) under the shogunate of that region. Though the position is desirable, Katagiri voices his concern that a man of Yaichiro’s character is likely to get into trouble. His doubts are confirmed when the married Yaichiro expresses an intention to indulge in Edo’s sensual pleasures while stationed there. During dinner that evening, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Dragon 80
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwell's equations. Various common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of an electric charge, which can be either positive or negative, produces an electric field. The movement of electric charges is an electric current and produces a magnetic field. When a charge is placed in a location with a non-zero electric field, a force will act on it. The magnitude of this force is given by Coulomb's law. If the charge moves, the electric field would be doing work on the electric charge. Thus we can speak of electric potential at a certain point in space, which is equal to the work done by an external agent in carrying a unit of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party 7
''Party 7'' is a 2000 Japanese surreal comedy film directed by Katsuhito Ishii, distributed by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. Plot Cast * Masatoshi Nagase as Miki * Keisuke Horibe as Sonoda * Akemi Kobayashi as Kana * Yoshinori Okada as Todohira * Yoshio Harada as Captain Banana * Tadanobu Asano as Okita * Tatsuya Gasyuin is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Tatsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *達也, "master/accomplished, to be" *達矢, "master/accomplished, arrow" *竜也, "dragon, to be" *竜哉, "d ... as Wakagashira Reception References External links * Party 7Trailer of the movie on YouTube. 2000 films 2000s Japanese-language films Films directed by Katsuhito Ishii 2000s Japanese films Films produced by Kazutoshi Wadakura {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gojoe
is a 2000 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' action film directed by Gakuryū Ishii. In several English-speaking countries, it was released as ''Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle''. It is a historical fantasy martial arts film set in 12th-century medieval Japan before the Genpei War. Plot After the apparent defeat of the Genji in the war for Japan, a mysterious demon lurking at the Gojoe bridge in Kyoto kills every Heike warrior that tries to cross it. Meanwhile Musashibo Benkei, a samurai turned Buddhist monk out of repentance for his past crimes, receives a divine signal from Acalanatha informing him that he only will be forgiven after slaying the demon. Borrowing a sacred sword from a yamabushi sect, and against the wishes of his mentor Ajari, Benkei sets out to destroy the monster. At the scene of one of the murders in Gojoe, Benkei encounters his old rival Tankai, and also meets a scavenger named Tetsukichi, a former weaponsmith who now survives from looting from battle corpses. One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Businessmen
''Three Businessmen'' is a 1998 comedy film directed by Alex Cox and written by Tod Davies, who was also the producer. It is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and United States. Two businessmen, played by Miguel Sandoval and Cox, wander Liverpool in search of a meal. After wandering through Liverpool, they end up at various locations throughout the world and are eventually joined by a third businessman, played by Robert Wisdom. Plot Art dealers Benny (Miguel Sandoval) and Frank (Alex Cox) set out in Liverpool in search of a meal, and end up in a whirlwind trip around the Earth in search of food. After meeting businessman Leroy (Robert Wisdom) in the desert, they discover they are present at the birth of the new female Messiah... and promptly forget again. Production In 1996, Dutch television producer Wim Kayzer contacted director Alex Cox and said he was looking for a project that fit the themes of "beauty and consolation". After disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful Sunday
''Beautiful Sunday'' () is a 2007 South Korean crime drama film. ''Koreanfilm.org''. Retrieved 13 April 2008. Plot Police detective Kang has resorted to illegal activities to pay for the medical bills of his wife, who is in a coma. One day he is approached by a man named Min-woo, who confesses to killing his own wife. Kang realises that the murder and his wife's accident are in fact connected.Cast * Park Yong-woo ... Detective Kang * ... Min-woo * Min Ji-hye ... Soo-yeon * Lee Ki-young ... Lee Gi-che ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gakko II
is a 1996 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It is a sequel to Yamada's 1993 film ''A Class to Remember''. The film was Japan's submission to the 69th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Cast * Toshiyuki Nishida * Hidetaka Yoshioka * Masatoshi Nagase * Ayumi Ishida * Hiroshi Kanbe * Pinko Izumi * Hideko Hara * Yoshiaki Umegaki * Takashi Sasano * Ayumi Hamasaki Gakko series * ''A Class to Remember'' (1993) * ''Gakko II'' (1996) * ''Gakko III aka A Class to Remember III'' (1998) * ''Jyu Gosai Gakko aka A Class to Remember IV'' (2000) See also * List of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the inception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flirt (1995 Film)
''Flirt'' is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley and produced by Good Machine. Introduction The story takes place in New York, Berlin and Tokyo, with each segment using the same dialogue. In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with. In Berlin, Dwight has a similar experience with his lover, while the events that befall Miho in Tokyo take a more dramatic turn. Cast * Martin Donovan as Walter * Dwight Ewell as Dwight * Geno Lechner as Greta * Parker Posey as Emily * Bill Sage as Bill * Miho Nikaido as Miho * Hal Hartley as Hal * Toshizo Fujiwara as Ozu * Peter Fitz as The Doctor * Chikako Hara as Yuki * Liana Pai as Woman at Phone Booth * Harold Perrineau, Jr. as Man #1 * Maria Schrader as Girl In Phone Booth * José Zúñiga as Driver * Hannah Sullivan as Margaret * Michael Imperioli Michael Imperioli (born March 26, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Terrible Time In My Life
is a 1994 film directed by Kaizo Hayashi. The film is the first in the series featuring the detective Mike Hama (a play on the Mickey Spillane detective Mike Hammer), which included two more films by Hayashi (''Stairway to the Distant Past'' and ''The Trap''), a TV series (''Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku''), and a film made from one episode of that TV series ('' Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name''). Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7 ... score of 61, based on 8 reviews. Notes External links * 1994 films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Sin (1992 Film)
is a 1992 film directed by Japanese director Takashi Ishii. Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22-year-old man. The main cast members are Shinobu Otake (Nami Tsuchiya, the wife), Masatoshi Nagase (Makoto Hirano, the young man) and Hideo Murota was a Japanese actor who specialized in playing villains and tough guys. In 1957, he signed a contract with Toei Studio and appeared in over 1000 films. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Yokohama Film Festival for his role in '' Shi ... (Hideki Tsuchiya, the husband). Plot Nagase is a young man on a train, apparently deciding at random where to go. As he walks out of a train station, he bumps into a woman, Nami. He is immediately fascinated by her, and follows her to the estate agent's office where she works. At the office her boss and husband, Hideki, invites him inside. He rents an apartment and asks for a job. Although Nami tells her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
