Good Morning Show / Guddo môningu shô (2016)
Comedy
An experienced entertainment show host was asked to interview a kidnap at a coffee shop by the kidnapper. It's a threat on personal safety, but also a good chance to save the show from shutting down.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Shida, Saburô Tokitô, Gaku Hamada
Director: Ryôichi Kimizuka
I Am a Hero / Aiamuahiro (2016)
Action | Horror
One day, after returning from work late in the evening, Hideo witnesses a traffic accident in which a car crashes into a nearby pedestrian, killing the victim instantly. However, despite severe injuries including a broken neck, the victim's body stands up and walks away. Hideo questions whether this is another one of his hallucinations, but strange events begin happening around him.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Okada, Nana Katase
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Our Little Sister / Umimachi Diary (2015)
Drama
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryô Kase, Ryôhei Suzuki
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
The Crossing 2 / The Crossing: Part II / Tai ping lun 2 (2015)
Drama
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Dawei Tong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Masami Nagasawa, Qianyuan Wang, Hitomi Kuroki
Director: John Woo
The Crossing / The Crossing: Part I / Tai ping lun (2014)
Drama
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ziyi Zhang, Hye-kyo Song, Xiaoming Huang, Dawei Tong, Masami Nagasawa
Director: John Woo
Wood Job! (2014)
Comedy
Yuki Hirano (Shota Sometani) fails his college entrance exam, but he's not all that worried about it. As a slacker, he figures he can take it easy for a year and maybe re-take the test. His girlfriend Reina though decides to move on without him. Later, Yuki notices a flyer. There's a pretty girl (Masami Nagasawa) on the cover with the caption "Come Work With Us." Yuki decides to take up the offer. He'll have to travel to a small remote town, that doesn't even have cell phone coverage, and take training classes for 30 days. If all goes well, he'll work as a trainee forester for one year in a even more remote mountain area. Can Yuki ever hope to survive his new wood job!?!?
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Masami Nagasawa, Hideaki Itô, Nana Seino, Shunpei Kawagoishi
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Beyond the Memories / Kiyoku yawaku (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. Roku then tries to make Kanna feel love again.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masaki Okada, Kengo Kôra, Chizuru Ikewaki, Yûki Furukawa, Aoi Nakamura, Haru, Megumi, Kaoru Hirata, Ryôsei Tayama
Director: Takehiko Shinjo
The Last Chance: Diary of Comedians / Bokutachi no koukan nikki (2013)
Comedy
Movie follows the life of an unpopular comedy duo. The duo named "Boso Swimmers" have been working together for 12 years, but the duo sees little future in their comedy careers. They then begin to write their thoughts in a diary…
Starring: Atsushi Itô, Keisuke Koide, Masami Nagasawa
Director: Teruyoshi Uchimura
Galileo: SP / Galileo: Episode Zero (2008)
Drama | Mystery
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his former badminton teammate, the brilliant professor Yukawa Manabu
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Keizô Kani'e, Kazuki Kitamura, Ayaka Komatsu, Miki Maya, Haruma Miura, Masami Nagasawa, Kazuma Sano, Hiroshi Shinagawa, Ikkei Watanabe
Director: Mizuki Nishizaka
Nihon rettou: Ikimonotachi no monogatari / Japan's Wildlife: The Untold Story (2012)
Documentary
Bears, monkeys, boars, foxes, seals and other animals live on the Japanese islands. These animals depends on each other like a family. Cameramen Mitsuaki Iwago, Ikuo Nakamura, & Shimada Chu films these animals and their environment to better understand why.
Starring: Masaki Aiba, Gori, Hitomi Kuroki, Masami Nagasawa
Director: Keizô Ideta
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From Kokuriko Hill / From Up On Poppy Hill / Kokuriko-zaka kara (2011)
Animation | Drama
Umi Matsuzaka, the eldest sibling in a close-knit family of five, raises a pair of signal flags everyday at her seaside house in Yokohama Bay without fail in anticipation of the return of her father, who went missing in action during the Korean War. In school, Umi finds herself involved in a student movement seeking to prevent the demolition of an old club house. In the process, she falls in love with the newspaper club president Jun Kazama, only to find out that they might be related by blood.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Love Strikes! / Moteki (2011)
Comedy
"Moteki" is…a period in one’s life when a person is most attractive to the opposite sex. Fujimoto, 31, has no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love eludes him. At the height of his loneliness and social isolation, out of nowhere springs his season of irresistibility – the arrival of "moteki". Miyuki, a fun and gregarious magazine editor, who shares a lot of Yukiyo’s interests but has a boyfriend. Rumiko, Miyuki’s close friend, a pretty but obsessive office worker. Ai, a gaudy young bar hostess. Motoko, Yukiyo’s senior colleague, a cool beauty with an acid tongue. Between these four very different women, Yukiyo gets pushed and pulled in all directions. But will Yukiyo reach the elusive promised land of true love?
Starring: Mirai Moriyama, Masami Nagasawa, Kumiko Asô, Riisa Naka, Yôko Maki
Director: Hitoshi Ohne
