mdblist.com logo The Best Masatoshi Nagase Movies. Go to The Best Shows


Ratings
Between
and
Between
and
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Additional filters
m
Lists, Streaming Services, Cast and more
Create List (134 items)

Login to create Trakt list


poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.3
/94017/
71
/3206/
71
/1992/
3.9
/212004/
96
/264/
72
/459/
90
/42/
cc age 16+

Paterson (2016)
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.5
/32583/
74
/605/
73
/479/
4.0
/69412/
89
/35/
87
/513/
80
/16/

Mystery Train (1989)
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
poster
Kanopy
76
6.8
/992/
68
/66/
67
/34/
3.8
/4641/
93
/54/
75
/5/
76
/13/

We Are Little Zombies (2019)
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.4
/13868/
77
/643/
74
/586/
3.9
/27315/
84
/58/
85
/47/
60
/16/

Sweet Bean (2015)
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
poster
74
7.0
/1967/
62
/22/
63
/25/
3.5
/795/
95
/20/
83
/55/

Cold Fever (1995)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.4
/1054/
68
/36/
60
/36/
3.3
/1306/
94
/16/
62
/7/
82
/9/

Our Time Will Come (2017)
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
poster
Kanopy
78
73
7.6
/7538/
76
/182/
74
/118/
3.9
/2951/
84
/32/
84
/274/
76
/11/

The Hidden Blade (2004)
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
poster
68
6.5
/23652/
65
/724/
64
/531/
3.4
/63793/
63
/8/
69
/1404/

Suicide Club (2001)
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer to this mystery, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
poster
62
6.3
/2374/
67
/48/
60
/27/
3.5
/3231/
73
/11/
72
/23/
46
/16/

Flirt (1995)
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
poster
72
59
6.8
/2915/
70
/98/
68
/69/
3.8
/9618/
81
/137/

Electric Dragon 80000V (2001)
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
poster
82
58
8.0
/1312/
66
/12/
86
/9/
3.9
/5560/
100
/19/

Kokuho (2025)
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of kabuki.
poster
70
57
6.7
/2265/
71
/79/
64
/66/
3.6
/3438/
73
/11/
75
/249/

Sakuran (2006)
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.
poster
64
49
6.3
/1581/
58
/23/
60
/22/
3.5
/2189/
78
/18/
49
/93/
75
/8/

Pistol Opera (2001)
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
poster
69
41
7.1
/964/
61
/20/
68
/22/
3.5
/804/
67
/12/
80
/43/

Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)
Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
poster
Kanopy
63
41
6.4
/2121/
61
/52/
65
/107/
3.4
/4069/
69
/7/
52
/5/

Radiance (2017)
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
poster
70
39
6.9
/698/
72
/36/
67
/39/
3.6
/2994/

Just Remembering (2022)
A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
poster
63
39
7.0
/1666/
63
/6/
57
/24/
3.5
/431/
57
/28/
71
/55/
57
/16/

The Sea Is Watching (2002)
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
38
7.7
/2523/
70
/32/
70
/38/
3.6
/911/
87
/9/

Kano (2014)
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
poster
Netflix
69
34
6.6
/416/
61
/11/
70
/13/
3.5
/1384/
80
/5/

A Hundred Flowers (2022)
Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.
poster
69
32
6.9
/493/
61
/10/
71
/11/
3.8
/1348/
80
/17/
61
/8/

The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers
poster
61
31
6.2
/772/
57
/24/
65
/22/
3.4
/1073/
57
/319/

Party 7 (2000)
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
poster
62
31
6.2
/942/
56
/18/
68
/40/
3.4
/365/
61
/37/

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2001)
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 trio of fighters known only as the demons. Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
30
5.7
/580/
56
/55/
67
/85/
3.2
/880/

Jigen Daisuke (2023)
Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person he’s been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who comes to Chiharu’s shop looking for a gun. Jigen finds out about Oto's secrets and the mysterious organization that’s after her. After Oto is kidnapped, Jigen gets into a desperate battle to save her.
poster
68
29
7.1
/238/
65
/21/
67
/16/
3.6
/1020/
6.5
/4263/

Glassy Ocean (1998)
On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
poster
48
23
5.2
/896/
56
/26/
48
/32/
2.9
/1292/
38
/13/
36
/2/

Vision (2018)
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
poster
65
21
6.4
/377/
72
/9/
65
/11/
3.5
/521/
55
/328/

Dead End Run (2003)
A collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Sogo Ishii. Each short focuses on the protagonists running away from a threat.
poster
60
17
6.3
/568/
48
/21/
64
/28/
3.3
/401/
60
/4/

Smuggler (2011)
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
poster
62
16
6.6
/206/
56
/10/
54
/8/
3.6
/1156/

P. P. Rider (1983)
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
15
5.4
/232/
60
/11/
70
/5/
3.0
/1278/

The Box Man (2024)
A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his head.
poster
67
15
7.2
/403/
51
/7/
58
/15/
3.7
/658/
83
/5/

Autumn Moon (1992)
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emigrates to Canada.
poster
The Roku Channel
62
14
6.8
/569/
51
/6/
62
/6/
3.5
/461/
62
/15/

Three Businessmen (1998)
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
poster
62
14
6.1
/103/
53
/6/
67
/9/
3.5
/829/

0cm⁴ (2001)
Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.
poster
68
14
6.5
/416/
61
/8/
77
/18/
70
/3/

64: Part 1 (2016)
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
poster
67
12
6.3
/340/
60
/5/
76
/16/
70
/3/

64: Part 2 (2016)
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
poster
66
12
6.8
/255/
58
/7/
70
/8/
3.6
/595/

The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
poster
Hoopla
57
11
5.9
/132/
50
/1/
60
/1/
3.1
/518/

Last Shadow at First Light (2025)
Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form.
poster
62
11
6.2
/294/
66
/12/
57
/12/
3.3
/404/

Noise (2022)
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
poster
69
10
6.5
/122/
73
/3/
71
/13/
3.4
/229/

A Madder Red (2021)
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.
poster
66
7
6.2
/159/
63
/6/
80
/1/
3.1
/585/

Sakura (2020)
Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his younger brother who is at school. The youngest one is the girl and has two brothers to protect her. And then there is Sakura, the family's dog who is always by their side. The fate of this quirky but happy family changes drastically after Hajime, the family's hero-like figure, encounters a tragic accident...
poster
?
5.3
/7/

Hokusai's Daughter (2025)
The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.
poster
66
?
7.1
/48/
60
/1/
3.4
/287/

Yakushima's Illusion (2025)
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes.
poster
?
10
/1/

Oshare dorobō (1989)
N/A
poster
?
7.5
/10/

Fantasmagorie~The Ghost Show (2022)
Ena is a computer graphics artist. Working like a machine, she ultimately suffers from the rare digital disease "01," which leaves a strange mark on one half of her face. Ena goes back to her hometown. That is when "Babalon" appears before her which only Ena can see. Frightened by "Babalon" that speaks of "destruction," a strange boy named Robert shows up. Robert invites Ena to enter the mysterious antique shop "Anatomic Circus." That is where Ena learns about the magic lantern show "Fantasmagorie" that swept the late 18th century Paris. It involved a real Ghost Show with actual ghosts that also lead to the police getting involved. Ena becomes a captive of both "Fantasmagorie" and the founder Robertson. That is when a change occurs around Ena. She is lured by a song to leave the shop. That is when strange men pursue her, and she wonders into a maze dominated by "Babalon."
poster
58
?
5.6
/17/
40
/225/
79
/2000/

Adabana (2024)
In a not so distant future where lifespan extension has become a priority following the spread of a mysterious virus, a privileged man looks back upon his life as he is facing a dilemma: should he live if it means taking someone else's life?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
5.3
/23/
36
/3/
68
/5/

Family (2023)
Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four men.
poster
?
10
/1/

Space Girl Morumo 1/10 (1987)
Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.
poster
?
6.0
/24/

Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections (2016)
This omnibus film brings together three globally acclaimed directors from Asia with a common theme 'Living Together in Asia' to depict the lives of characters who journey between Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Brillante Mendoza grapples with the issue of loss of national identity and home, with a story set in the Obihiro area of Hokkaido and Manila in the Philippines. Isao Yukisada directs a story in Malaysia where the Japanese army was once stationed but is now home to many Japanese retirees living out their remaining years. An elderly man has parted from his family in Japan to live alone in Penang, but when a new helper comes to the house, he slowly opens his mind and an unexpected bond forms between the two. Finally director Sotho Kulikar conveys a beautiful but heart-rending love story between a Japanese man and Cambodian woman that unfolds across past and present against the backdrop of Cambodia's civil war.
poster
?
6.4
/7/
70
/1/

The Cross (2016)
Shunsuke Fujii was a bullied middle school student. He took his own life. A letter left behind referred to his classmate Yu Sanada as a friend. Sayuri Nakagawa was a girl that Shunsuke liked. Her birthday is the same day as the day Shunsuke commited suicide. Shunsuke's father can not forgive Shunsuke’s classmates and his mother's life has been destroyed by his death. They have spent 20 years of their life carrying their own cross since Shunsuke Fujii's death.


mdblist.com © 2020 | Contact | Reddit | Discord | API