Masatoshi Nagase

Masatoshi Nagase (2017)

Masatoshi Nagase ( Japanese 永 瀬 正 敏 , Nagase Masatoshi ; born July 15, 1966 in Miyazaki ) is a Japanese actor and singer . He has appeared in over 80 films so far.

Life

While he was in middle school, he founded a music band. The director Shinji Sōmai first cast him in a film in 1983. In Shonben raidâ , he played one of three students who, together with the yakuza and the police, set out to find the stolen class bully. After graduating from high school, he went to Tokyo and began his professional acting career. In 1989 he played in Jim Jarmusch's award-winning film Mystery Train in the episode Far from Yokohoma alongside Youki Kudoh, a young Japanese tourist on the trail of Elvis Presley . The film Love Needs No Words , directed by Yōji Yamada, was a great success . Nagase has received several awards for the role of Tetsuo, who gets by with odd jobs in Tokyo and finds great love.

He married actress Kyôko Koizumi in 1996 and divorced in 2004.

Filmography (selection)

• 1983: Shonben raidâ
• 1989: Mystery Train
• 1991: Love doesn't need words ( Musuko )
• 1991: Mo no shigoto
• 1991: Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
• 1995: Cold Fever ( Á köldum klaka )
• 2004: The Hidden Blade
• 2006: Sakuran - Wild Cherry Blossom
• 2015: cherry blossoms and red beans
• 2016: Paterson
• 2018: The Bloom of Harmony (Vision)

Discography

Singles :

• 1983: School Days (ス ク ー ル ･ デ イ ズ)
• 1983: Natsu no Madonna (夏 の マ ド ン ナ)
• 1983: Nanbuu Dreaming (南風 ･ ド リ ー ミ ン)
• 1984: Plastic Love Letter (プ ラ ス テ ィ ッ ク ･ ラ ブ ･ レ タ ー)
• 1993: For the boys ...
• 1993: Taiyou to Pistol -le soleil et le pistolet (太陽 と ピ ス ト ル -le soleil et le pistolet-)
• 1996: Kimi to Boku (キ ミ と ボ ク)

Albums :

• 1984: JOJO
• 1993: CONEY ISLAND JELLYFISH
• 1996: Vending Machine

Awards

Japanese Academy Award

• 1992: Best supporting actor for Musuko and Mo no shigoto
• 1992: Newcomer of the year for Musuko , Mo no shigoto and Asian Beat: I Love Nippon

Blue Ribbon Award

• 1992: Best Supporting Actor for Musuko

Hochi Film Award

• 1991: Best leading actor for Musuko , Mo no shigoto and Asian Beat: I Love Nippon

Kinema Junpo Award

• 1992: Best Supporting Actor for Musuko

Mainichi Film Concours

• 1992: Best leading actor for Musuko , Mo no shigoto and Asian Beat: I Love Nippon

Nikkan Sports Film Awards

• 1991: Best Supporting Actor for Musuko

Yokohama Film Festival

• 2008: Best supporting actor for Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero

literature

• Hans-Michael Bock : Lexicon. Film Actor International . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-199-7 , p. 619.

Web links

• Masatoshi Nagase in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Discography (English)