Masatoshi Nagase

Masatoshi Nagase
Born	July 15, 1966 (1966-07-15) (age 45) Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Occupation	Actor

Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬正敏 Nagase Masatoshi) (b. July 15, 1966 in Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan) 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, in Japan for his role as TV's Mike Hama (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. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 29th Yokohama Film Festival for Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero.^[1]

He dated Japanese pop-star Mika Nakashima, who is 17 years his junior, from 2004 to 2008. The rumour that they were dating was confirmed by their managements, and the couple even had a photoshoot for a Japanese Music and Film Magazine together. Despite rumours of the couple heading for marriage in 2007, they ended their relationship in spring 2008.

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)
Trap (1996) aka Wana
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)
Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero (2007)

References

^ "第２９回ヨコハマ映画祭２００７年日本映画個人賞" (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/29-2007/29_2007_shou.html. Retrieved 2010-12-13.

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Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Tetsuya Takeda (1978) · Tsunehiko Watase (1979) · Bunta Sugawara (1980) · Tetsurō Tamba (1981) · Katsuo Nakamura (1982) · Morio Kazama (1983) · Morio Kazama (1984) · Kaku Takashina (1985) · Kaoru Kobayashi (1986) · Hitoshi Ueki (1987) · Masahiko Tsugawa (1988) · Tsurutarō Kataoka (1989) · Eiji Bandō (1990) · Renji Ishibashi (1991) · Masatoshi Nagase (1992) · Naoto Takenaka (1993) · Kunie Tanaka (1994) · Kiichi Nakai (1995) · Naoto Takenaka (1996) · Naoto Takenaka (1997) · Masahiko Nishimura (1998) · Chosuke Ikariya (1999) · Nenji Kobayashi (2000) · Kōichi Satō (2001) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2002) · Min Tanaka (2003) · Kōichi Satō (2004) · Joe Odagiri (2005) · Shinichi Tsutsumi (2006) · Takashi Sasano (2007) · Kaoru Kobayashi (2008) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2009) · Teruyuki Kagawa (2010)

Yokohama Film Festival Best Supporting Actor

Keizō Kanie (1980) · Morio Kazama (1981) · Renji Ishibashi (1982) · Mitsuru Hirata (1983) · Jūzō Itami (1984) · Kaku Takashina (1985) · Tomokazu Miura (1986) · Kaoru Kobayashi (1987) · Sabu Kawahara (1988) · Tsurutarō Kataoka (1989) · Yoshio Harada (1990) · Keizō Kanie (1991) · Koji Matoba (1992) · Hideo Murota (1993) · Masato Hagiwara (1994) · Kōichi Satō (1995) · Kazuhiko Kanayama (1996) · Ryo Ishibashi (1997) · Masahiko Nishimura / Isao Bitoh (1998) · Ren Osugi (1999) · Kazuki Kitamura (2000) · Teruyuki Kagawa / Jun Murakami (2001) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2002) · Shinya Tsukamoto (2003) · Nao Ōmori (2004) · Akira Emoto (2005) · Ittoku Kishibe (2006) · Takashi Sasano (2007) · Masatoshi Nagase (2008) · Hidetoshi Nishijima (2009) · Yoshinori Okada / Yutaka Matsushige (2010)

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Name	Nagase Masatoshi
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Date of birth	July 15, 1966
Place of birth	Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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