Masatoshi Nagase

Japanese actor

Born

15 July 1966, Miyazaki

Citizenship

Japan

Occupation

actor, photographer, film actor

Films here

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Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏, Nagase Masatoshi; born July 15, 1966) is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train.

Nagase was described by Todd Brown of Twitch Film as "one of the great unsung heroes of Japanese film, a hugely reliable character actor with seemingly unerring taste in projects who - despite a huge body of work - remains largely unknown by name."

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Tadanobu Asano
• Jun Kunimura
• Hidetaka Yoshioka
• Min Tanaka
• Takako Matsu
• Kunie Tanaka
• Ken Ogata

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q2422834 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.