Masatoshi Nagase
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Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏 Nagase Masatoshi) (b. July 15, 1966 in Miyazaki, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He is most known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, in Japan for his role as TV's Mike Hama (i.e., Mike Hammer).
He has won two Japanese Academy Awards, for Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer in 1992 for Musuco, and been nominated a further three times.
Currently he is dating Japanese pop-star Mika Nakashima, who is 17 years his junior. The rumour was confirmed by their managements, and the couple even had a photoshoot for a Japanese Music and Film Magazine together.
[edit] Feature Filmography
- Shonben Rider (1983)
- Miyuki (1983, anime voice-over)
- Mystery Train (1989)
- Bakayarou! 3: Henna 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 (1994)
- The Stairway to the Distant Past (1994)
- Cold Fever (1995)
- Flirt (1995)
- Berlin (1995)
- A Class to Remember 2 (1996)
- The Trap (1996)
- Niji o tsukamu otoko (1996)
- Wana (1996)
- Ullie (1996)
- Abduction (1997)
- Beautiful Sunday (1998)
- Three Businessmen (1998)
- Gojoe senki (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 Circle (2002)
- The Sea Is Watching (2003)
- Dead End Run (2003)
- The Loved Gun (2004) aka Rabudo gan
- The Hidden Blade (2004) aka Kakushi-ken: oni no tsume
- Gina K (2005)
- Ubume no natsu (2005)
- Sakuran (2006)
