Movies: Hiroyuki Nagashima

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the re...

In a situation where location shooting was difficult due to the Corona pandemic, four omnibus horror films that could be shot in the school were planned as the graduation project for the technical area students. Four horrific events with completely d...

Oosumi, a dummy artist, makes the figure of Mari who is the wife of a gangster called Kurokin. Oosumi decides to run away with Mari, but Mari disappears. One night, Kaako, a musician's wife, meets a ghost cat and she is possessed by Mari's spirit....

Commissioned by Yokohama National University, the film follows a man nearly twenty years after his graduation, who, facing a deadlock in his professional life, returns to his alma mater. Wandering slowly under the blooming cherry trees and through la...

An actress penning a play inspired by the story of a woman vanishing into thin air becomes disturbed by unexplained phenomena at her rental villa....

Not far in the future , the second nuclear accident happened in Japan. The Town next to it remains the same. Tatsuya works for the yakuza, Ryo who was in prison, and Mari the sex worker started living together. The misfit, the outcast, trying to sur...

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Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe....

Akashi, a solitary man with no family, does the dirty work for Hiramoto, a yakuza boss. His life changes when he meets Yo, a Chinese restaurant worker who has no place to live. As a fellow struggler, Akashi opens up and offers her his home but soon r...

Shimazaki, who is a teacher at a film school and film director, criticizes the works of a student at the preview of their graduation project. However, he is driven into a frenzy when the audience denounces his film, and massacres 42 people on the spo...

A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in 2009. Directed by Shinji Aoyama, this installment of NHK’s "Recitation Travelogue" series features ac...

A young couple's lives take a turn for the worse after a mysterious attack on the husband leaves him suffering from some bizarre after effects....

Like a noise rock Brave New World with echoes of Alphaville, this gorgeous black and white vision of Japan after a nuclear disaster pits chaos against control and secret agents against an oppressive government agency....

On a winter day, a man and a woman, once college sweethearts, chance to meet at Incheon Airport after 25 years. When they meet again a week later, they realize their old flame still burns, feeling a romantic thrill and confusion at the same time....

"Roadside Picnic" is a piece produced by Hiroyuki Nagashima and Shigeru Matsui, pursuing the possibilities of “a new form of story telling, by the usage of digital sound technology” (financed by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science :JSPS2465203...

The film opens with distant shots of wind power plants, followed by a Pink Floyd song, and then focuses on a simple yet evocative image: a bonfire on the beach at night. Its title references Pink Floyd’s album “Wish You Were Here”, merging both the l...