Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Youki Kudoh · Nicoletta Braschi · Cinqué Lee

Plot Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqué...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Plot Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the...

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Kirin Kiki · Miyoko Asada · Etsuko Ichihara

Plot The "manager" of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. A taste of her home-made bean jelly convinces him, starting a...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Adam Driver · Golshifteh Farahani · Sterling Jerins · Luis Da Silva Jr.

Plot Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey - they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his...

Direction Daihachi Yoshida

Cast Eriko Sato · Hiromi Nagasaku · Masatoshi Nagase · Aimi Satsukawa

Plot When the homely 18-year-old Kyomi (Aimi Satsukawa) loses both of her parents to a car wreck, tragedy sets the stage for a seriocomic and occasionally poignant battle-of-wills between the young...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Misa Shimizu · Nagiko Tono · Masatoshi Nagase · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Direction Chiang Hsiu-Chiung

Cast Hiromi Nagasaku · Nozomi Sasaki · Hiyori Sakurada · Miyoko Asada

Plot Misaki returns to the hometown of his father, after he is reported to be dead. There she sets a coffee shop in the middle of the coast and a relationship...

Direction Mika Ninagawa

Cast Anna Tsuchiya · Kippei Shiina · Yoshino Kimura · Hiroki Narimiya

Plot In an 18th-century Yoshiwara brothel, Tsuchiya exploits sex to seduce powerful men and seize her freedom.

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Lili Taylor · Fisher Stevens · Gísli Halldórsson

Plot All poor Atsushi Hirata really wants is to leave the cold Japanese winter and take a week's vacation in warm Hawaii. Unfortunately, he ends up forced to honor tradition and...

Direction Genki Kawamura

Cast Mieko Harada · Masaki Suda · Masami Nagasawa · Yumi Kawai

Plot 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...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Masatoshi Nagase · Masakatsu Funaki

Plot This comic-book style story stars Tadanobu Asano as Dragon Eye Morrison, who was electrocuted as a child but survived, and now must do battle with his nemesis, Thunderbolt Buddha.

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Masanobu Ando · Hikari Mitsushima · Masatoshi Nagase

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Ayame Misaki · Tatsuya Fuji · Kazuko Shirakawa

Plot A love story between a photographer who is losing his sight and a young woman disconnected from society.

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Bill Sage · Dwight Ewell · Parker Posey · Elina Löwensohn

Plot A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story...

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Keisuke Horibe · Yoshinori Okada · Akemi Kobayashi

Plot 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,...

Direction Hajime Hashimoto

Cast Tetsuji Tamayama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Kotoka Maki · Yoko Maki

Plot The legendary gunman Daisuke Jigen comes to Japan to have his pistol examined.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Makiko Esumi · Sayoko Yamaguchi · Hanae Kan · Masatoshi Nagase

Plot Long, lean, raven-haired model turned actress Makiko Esumi is Miyuki Minazuki, an assassin in black kimono and high-heel boots better known as "Stray Cat". Rated number 3 in the Assassins...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Akaji Maro · Masatoshi Nagase · Saya Hagiwara

Plot 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new...

Direction Guillermo Arriaga · Héctor Babenco · Bahman Ghobadi · Emir Kusturica

Cast Demian Bichir · Emir Kusturica · Sarai Givaty · Emilio Echevarría

Plot Composed of 10 short films on the major religions in the world. The directors are: Jose Padilha (Brazil), Warwick Thornton (Australia), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran), Mira Nair (India), Hideo Nakata (Japan),...

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Momoko Bitô · Teruyuki Kagawa · Ittoku Kishibe · Masatoshi Nagase

Plot Tetsuya Nakajima directs this black comedy about Sunday, that day of rest. Constructed like Grand Hotel, the film interweaves the lives of an assorted collection of oddball Tokyoites living in...