Ryo Iwamatsu
Birthday: 1952-03-26
Place of Birth: Kawatana, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Playwright, stage director, actor, and film director.
Movies
Dear Doctor
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make a...
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Cutie Honey
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use he...
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In the Pool
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neur...
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Inubu: The Dog Club
Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was littl...
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Gonin
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pe...
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Adrift in Tokyo
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip acros...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Instant Swamp
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching ...
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Quartet for Two
Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him o...
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Sawako Decides
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her fat...
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The Man of the Political Economy
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic...
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Hush!
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is o...
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The Last Days of the World
The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be...
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In the Wake
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just r...
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Sunday's Dream
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same compa...
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Sabakan
Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although ...
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Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimo...
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It's Me It's Me
Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer an...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the g...
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Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n...
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8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl r...
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119
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearl...
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, j...
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Convenience Story
Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potentia...
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Pecoross' Mother and Her Days
Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...
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Into a Dream
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, mar...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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The Hit-and-Run Family
Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing ...
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MARKS
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When ...
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Invisible War
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring t...
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Beijing Watermelon
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and...
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A Man with Style
Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a ch...
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The Apology King
Ryoro Kurojima is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologiz...
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Original Sin
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an es...
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A Night in Nude
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be ...
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Wakamusha
Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. The three wander the streets, rum...
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Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, whil...
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The Complex
Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother....
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Samurai Fiction
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword....
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Yamagata Scream
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a...
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March Comes In Like a Lion
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
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Memoirs of a Murderer
The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would alway...
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Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror ...
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March Goes out Like a Lamb
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wo...
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Tokyo Ghoul
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He s...
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Laughing Lucky Cats
Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hit...
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The Cat in Their Arms
A 33-year-old supermarket worker at a provincial city used to be an idol, but could not see a future...
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Joryu Tohaiden Aki
Aki was practically born and raised in a mahjong parlor. At the age of 15, she goes to Tokyo during...
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Goodbye, Grandpa!
A 20 something girl Yoshiko is having sex with her boyfriend when a shocking telephone call arrives ...
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Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an...
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Air Doll
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes...
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Faces of a Fig Tree
Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband....
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LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!
Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that ...
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Shin Ultraman
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing...
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The Vancouver Asahi
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrim...
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Guilty of Romance
In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate...
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Lesson of the Evil
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopa...
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A Family
Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to a...
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We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship ov...
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Love Exposure
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the...
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The Days of Morisaki Bookstore
After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another ...
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Step
Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she atten...
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Zebraman
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old ...
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Remain In Twilight
Six friends, who hanged out together during their high school days, gather again after 5 years for a...
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a p...
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Pieta in the Toilet
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows...
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Every Trick In The Book
Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves ar...
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A Canned Crab
A comical episode from Fuji TV's Yonimo Kimyouna Monogatari. Suekichi runs a small liquor store. He ...
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Tokyo Cowboy
Brash businessman Hideki (Arata Iura) convinces his Tokyo bosses he can turn a profitless Montana ca...
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Early Autumn
As summer gives way to autumn, Matsubara Tatsuhira (played by Yakusho Koji), who runs a wine special...
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TRUNK
TRUNK, also known as WebCINEMA TRUNK, is a three-part short film directed by Shinji Aoyama. Released...
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