Ryo Kase
Acting
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.
Born: November 9, 1974
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For
SPEC ~ First Blood
An eccentric genius and a demoted special forces officer team up in Tokyo's Unidentified Crimes Unit to tackle criminals with supernatural abilities.
Anpan
In wartime Japan, spirited Nobu transforms from a militarist schoolgirl into Kochi’s first female reporter, as she and childhood friend Takashi endure personal loss and struggle to find their own truths amid the upheaval of the Showa era.
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 village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.
Custom Made 10.30
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.
A Making of Nobody Knows
The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Nobody Knows
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
SPEC: Zero
High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "spec". 6 years later, Saya Toma, who has never forgotten what the Detective said, decides to become a detective. She returns to Japan after receiving training by the FBI in the United States. Saya Toma is assigned to work unsolved cases in the Public Security Bureau. Meanwhile, because of Satoshi Chii's scheme, Juichi Ninomae considers Saya Toma his parents' enemy and tries to push her to the edge. Satoshi Chii's scheme has also caused Saya Toma and Juichi Ninomae to forget that they are brother and sister. The siblings are headed to a life-staking fight. A girl named Maho Ueno becomes involved in their fight. To protect Maho Ueno, Saya Toma uses "spec".
SPEC: Life
Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the Unidentified Crimes Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Takeru Sebumi returns after taking a break due to his eye problems. Kenzo Ichiyanagi is appointed section chief, while Kotaro Nonomura is demoted. New member Shu Kikkawa joins the team.
Penance
The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.
Ordinary Miracles
One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train. Nakashiro Kana and Tasaki Shota both happen to be on the same platform, and sensing what is about to happen, they quickly pull him back to safety. There's a reason why Kana and Shota realized Makoto's intentions, they both have the kind of emotional scars that can't be put into words. Even after so much pain, through a series of e-mails, they've become attracted to one another and slowly learn to open up their hearts once again.
Filmography
as Yutaro Asada
as Oda Nobunaga
as Kiyoshi
as Iwao
as Koichi Suzuki
as Gen
as Takeshi Fujita
as Toji Soya
as Toji Soya
as Juan (Chokichi)
as Police Constable Sawai
as Makita Hiroshi
as Kanjiro
as Minami Sakashita
as Haruko's Father
as Mori
as Tomoya Abe
as Daisuke Ueno
as Employee of Gentsu
as Takeru sebumi
as Satoru Okano
as Takeru sebumi
as Takeru Sebumi
as Fukusako
as Keisuke Kinoshita
as Koji Takano
as Tajima
as Megumi Shimojima
as Noriaki
as Ishihara
as Takeru Sebumi
as Takeru Sebumi
as Koji Takano
as Nagano
as Hiroshi Takahashi
as Minoru nishio
as Haruo Meguro
as Yamanoha
as Takeru Sebumi
as Ishihara
as Toru Nagata
as Ichio
as Izumi Okuno
as Gas
as Shota Tazaki
as Satoshi Misaki
as Koichi
as Seiji Sawamura
as Akira (segment "Interior Design")
as Yuichi Kannami (voice)
as Tsuyoshi Tanaka
as Fuku
as Susumu Hoshi
as Ryosuke Takano
as Tomekichi Senba
as Yomogi
as Man on Boat
as Teppei Kaneko
as Private Shimizu
as Akira
as Nagase Masato
as Nagai
as Mayama
as Sodekichi
as Criminal
as Yuji Miyahara
as Jeff the Angel
as Takefumi
as Shingo
as Man
as Tecchan (segment "Taipei")
as Hideto Noguchi
as Narration
as Yuji Yashiro
as Actor in Fantasy Commercial
as Hiroyama Jun
as Rokutaro Hamadayama
as Ryo Otaki
as Todoroki
as Yuichiro
as Hiroshi Torigoe as a young man
as Shûhei Kondô
as Fuyuki Arita
as Tsutomu
as Kenji Chikada
as Masasuke
as Kamuro
as Soba-ya Cashier
as Mini-market Employee