Ryo Kase
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.
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World...
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Silence
as Juan (Chokichi)Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate,...
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Nobody Knows
as Hiroyama JunIn a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their...
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
as FisherGodzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises...
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Outrage
as IshiharaWhen a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as...
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The Taste of Tea
as Rokutaro HamadayamaA spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary...
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Tokyo!
as Akira (segment "Interior Design")Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller,...
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Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren...
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Bel Canto
as GenA famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after...
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Beyond Outrage
as IshiharaAs the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza...
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When the Last Sword Is Drawn
as Shûhei KondôKanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children...
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Like Someone in Love
as NoriakiAn old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her....
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Our Little Sister
as Minami SakashitaThree sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent...
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Survive Style 5+
as Actor in Fantasy CommercialFive bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined,...
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I Just Didn't Do It
as Teppei KanekoA young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and...
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Minamata
as KiyoshiWar photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect...
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Kubi
as Oda NobunagaLord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against...
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Cutie Honey
as TodorokiWhen Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must...
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Retribution
as Man on BoatA detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage,...
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Hana
as SodekichiIn a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to...
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Bright Future
as Fuyuki AritaTwo friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life....
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March Comes In Like a Lion
as Toji SoyaRei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi...
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Restless
as Hiroshi TakahashiTwo outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep...
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Su-ki-da
as CriminalTwo youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically,...
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Lady Maiko
as Haruko's FatherCountry bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially...
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To the Ends of the Earth
as IwaoA young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels...
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Honey and Clover
as MayamaAdapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama...
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Hill of Freedom
as MoriKwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope...
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Japanese Girls Never Die
as Police Constable SawaiWhile a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman...
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Glasses
as YomogiAn overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter...
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Penance
as Koji TakanoThe murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body...
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Pacchigi!
as Hideto NoguchiRomeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent...
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SPEC: Close~Reincarnation
as Takeru sebumiMysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
as TakefumiAn outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around...
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Judge!
as Employee of GentsuAfter taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his...
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Gu Gu, the Cat
as Seiji SawamuraAsako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat,...
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Dead Run
as Yuji MiyaharaClassmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is...
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10 Promises to My Dog
as Susumu HoshiOne day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to...
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It's Me It's Me
as TajimaHitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a...
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About Her Brother
as Toru NagataGinko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing,...
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Strawberry Shortcakes
as NagaiFollows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope...
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Paco and the Magical Book
as KoichiOnuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder....
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69
as Ryo OtakiHoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious...
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Party 7
as Mini-market EmployeeSeven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel...
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Cannonball Wedlock
as Minoru nishio24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life....
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All Around Us
as Tsuyoshi TanakaKanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values...
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Mori, The Artist's Habitat
as Takeshi FujitaIn 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in...
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The Motive
as Yuji YashiroFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
as KamuroBenkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to...
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SPEC: Shou
as Takeru SebumiSet one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More...
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SPEC: Heaven
as Takeru SebumiSaya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a...
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Mother Water
as YamanohaBlessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital,...
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My Hawaiian Discovery
as Tomoya AbeMinori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old...
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Rock'n'Roll Mishin
as Kenji ChikadaA bored salaryman quits his mundane job to help an old friend start an indie clothing label.
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Instant Swamp
as GasA woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while...
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March Goes out Like a Lamb
as Toji SoyaThe time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal...
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Hush!
as Soba-ya CashierNaoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya...
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Frog River
as TsutomuRecord shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a...
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Female
as Man'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed...
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SPEC: Zero
as Takeru SebumiHigh school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. ...
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Kakuto
as uncreditedA very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out,...
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Foujita
as KanjiroA biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and...
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Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
as uncreditedSecond installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main...
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Kaidan Horror Classics
as uncreditedFour short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.
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Sketches of Kaitan City
as Haruo MeguroThe bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a...
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Antenna
as YuichiroYuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs...
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Lying to Mom
as Koichi SuzukiSuzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his...
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My Darling of the Mountains
as FukuIn the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late...
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SPEC: Close~Incarnation
as Takeru sebumiMysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the...
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About Love
as Tecchan (segment "Taipei")Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories...
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
as Keisuke KinoshitaKeisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most...
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Tokyo Rendezvous
as Satoshi MisakiA salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
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Scrap Heaven
as ShingoThe lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a...
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Tokyo Oasis
as NaganoIn Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three...
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Pecoross' Mother and Her Days
as Satoru OkanoLaid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter...
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Through Their Eyes
as Makita HiroshiA compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding...
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Custom Made 10.30
as Jeff the AngelSisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their...
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
as Ryo SasakiAn eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months,...
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Gravity's Clowns
as Izumi OkunoOn the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright...
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Tomekichi SenbaBased on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The...
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Pool
as IchioA story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in...
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The Passenger
as AkiraYakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his...
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CHiLDREN
as Nagase MasatoThe bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto,...
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Hana
as Hiroshi Torigoe as a young manYoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises...
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School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
as uncredited"Kaibyo Densetsu" - Maki (Chizuru Ikewaki), who finds it strange that her best friend appears as...
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Misuzu
as MasasukeTells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While...
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Hanako San
as uncreditedShort 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...
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Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
as SelfDocumentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like...
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A Making of Nobody Knows
as NarrationThe making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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Mozart in the Jungle
as Daisuke UenoIn the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on...
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SPEC ~ First Blood
as Takeru SebumiLike the original series, "SPEC" will revolve around a pair of police detectives as part of a...
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Penance
as Koji TakanoThe murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is...
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Going My Home
as Megumi ShimojimaRyota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life...
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Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
as Ryosuke TakanoThe series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The...
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Bread and Soup and Cat Weather
as FukusakoAkiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her...
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Ordinary Miracles
as Shota TazakiOne day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in...
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