Toshiyuki Nagashima
Acting
Biography
Toshiyuki Nagashima is a Japanese actor and business man. He won the award for best actor at the 6th Hochi Film Award for Enrai, after winning the award for Best Newcomer at the 3rd Hochi Film Awards for Kaerazaru hibi.
Born: October 21, 1956
Place of Birth: Chiba, Japan
Known For
Metamorphosis
Steven Berkoff's iconic adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novella, which tells the tale of a traveling salesman who is transformed into an insect, is brought to life in this highly physical and visually striking production. Captured live at the Parco Theater in Tokyo, this landmark performance is in Japanese with English subtitles. Considered one of Berkoff’s masterpieces and performed multiple times since it first appeared in 1969, Metamorphosis combines elements of sound, physicality and minimalist design to recreate Kafka’s absurdist world on stage.
The Men Who Made Ultraman
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.
Fixer
Who will run Japan? The prime minister or a mastermind? A political thriller about the "fixer" pulling strings behind the scenes controlling the political, business, and legal worlds as the greed of money and power intersect.
Sakura Guardian in the North
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
Mio's Cookbook
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
125 Years Memory
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
Filmography
as Shigeru Tonomura
as Takeda Shingen
as Kinoshima Sousuke
as Denemon
as Doctor Mita
as Shigenobu Imazeki
as Yutaka Nomura
as Tatara
as Tadashi Ota
as Mr. Samsa
as Shintaro Suzuki
as Kobatozawa
as Yōsuke Tsuchiya
as Baba
as Futoshi Nishikawa
as Go Imai
as Shukichi Nishida
as Takuji Miyagawa
as Yoshihiro Hasegawa
as Thomas Kurita
as Tsuzuki Ryou
as Suikyou
as Colonel Yusuke Watarase
as Aihara
as Yasumasa Ogoshi
as Police
as Masafumi Nakasone
as Mitsuru Tsuchiya
as Parfyon Rogozhin
as Odabe
as Mikio Fujikawa
as Hitomi Maruyama
as Director Seiichi Yamamoto
as Ichiro Mamiya
as Yuichi Koga
as 喜さぶ
as Tamura
as Yoshirou
as Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)
as Driver
as Yoshio
as Michio Mikami
as Mitsuo Wada
as Eiichi Hongo
as Yasusuke Nogi
as Akimasa Matsuo
as Hideo Mizoguchi
as Atsuo Kuwata
as Tamotsu Kikuchi
as Sergeant Yajima
as Hiroshi Ueda
as Third
as Toru Nagashima