Daishi Matsunaga — Director (3)
Egoist (2023) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
エゴイスト
director: Daishi Matsunaga actor: Ryohei Suzuki / Hio Miyazawa
other title: エゴイスト
A lonely magazine editor finds romance with his personal trainer until a confession changes everything. Based on the novel by Makoto Takayama.
Pure Japanese (2022) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Pure Japanese
director: Daishi Matsunaga actor: Dean Fujioka / Aju Makita
Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.
Hanalei Bay (2018) [Movie] WikiData Douban NeoDB IMDb
ハナレイ・ベイ
director: Daishi Matsunaga actor: Yoh Yoshida / Reo Sano
other title: ハナレイ・ベイ
A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her son’s death anniversary. One day, she meets two young Japanese surfers who tell her about a young Japanese surfer with one leg.