Ryo Kase
Birthday: 1974-11-09
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮 Kase Ryō) is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington, until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.
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Letters from Iwo Jima
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
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Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone ...
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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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Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Gui...
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Party 7
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room:...
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I Just Didn't Do It
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charge...
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Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...
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Glasses
An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter ecce...
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Bright Future
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...
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10 Promises to My Dog
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act ...
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Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main char...
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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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Outrage
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he t...
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Gu Gu, the Cat
Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Sab...
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Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
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Retribution
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since ...
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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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Restless
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and la...
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Lady Maiko
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
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About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud...
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Cannonball Wedlock
24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie...
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Honey and Clover
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama foll...
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Sketches of Kaitan City
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar ...
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Strawberry Shortcakes
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with t...
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About Love
Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are a...
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Like Someone in Love
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He ...
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Gravity's Clowns
On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright son...
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My Darling of the Mountains
In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930...
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Beyond Outrage
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggl...
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Scrap Heaven
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus...
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Tokyo Oasis
In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people b...
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Frog River
Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo du...
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SPEC: Heaven
Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distin...
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Antenna
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs ove...
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Tokyo Rendezvous
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt....
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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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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected le...
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SPEC: Zero
High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detect...
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Kaidan Horror Classics
Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers....
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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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Hill of Freedom
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters lef...
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SPEC: Close~Incarnation
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysteriou...
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SPEC: Close Reincarnation
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysteriou...
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My Hawaiian Discovery
Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to...
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We Shall Overcome Someday
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent typ...
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Rock'n'Roll Mishin
A bored salaryman quits his mundane job to help an old friend start an indie clothing label....
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Su-ki-da
Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhis...
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms ...
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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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Kakuto
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubb...
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When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
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69
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. Th...
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Survive Style 5+
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resul...
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Nobody Knows
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Female
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Sh...
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Dead Run
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken ...
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All Around Us
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values wit...
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The Sky Crawlers
Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are ...
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Paco and the Magical Book
Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His on...
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Pool
A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 ...
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Mother Water
Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo Riv...
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Penance
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of ...
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Judge!
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arr...
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Misuzu
Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working ...
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R246 STORY
The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Ch...
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation f...
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Our Little Sister
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live...
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School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
"Kaibyo Densetsu" - Maki (Chizuru Ikewaki), who finds it strange that her best friend appears as a l...
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Foujita
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, w...
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Japanese Girls Never Die
While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who h...
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Hana
Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises imme...
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The Passenger
Yakuza Naoki Sando discovers his daughter Hiroko in bed with his adopted son Kohji. Three years late...
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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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Silence
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their men...
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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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Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for...
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SPEC: Life
Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More con...
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Lying to Mom
Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. W...
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Through Their Eyes
A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the...
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Bel Canto
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing a...
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To the Ends of the Earth
A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to U...
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Custom Made 10.30
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their par...
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a...
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Minamata
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of ...
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A Making of Nobody Knows
The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda....
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Hanako San
Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the leg...
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CHiLDREN
The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who...
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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Documentary on the making of Clint Eastwood's film 'Letters from Iwo Jima'....
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