Ryo Filmography

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The Witch of the West is Dead

Actors: Sachi Parker, Mayu Takahashi, Ryo

Synopsis: This heartwarming family film from Japan centers around a 13-year old girl named Mai. Suffering from intense asthma, and even more intense anxiety, Mai is sent to live with her English-born grandmother in the country. The mysterious old woman is thought by many to be a witch, so Mai asks her to Read More

2008
Welcome to the Quiet Room

Actors: Yuki Uchida, Kankuro Kudo, Yu Aoi, Ryo, Shinobu Otake

Synopsis: A troubled woman must confront the madness in others in this offbeat Japanese comedy-drama. Asuka Sakura (Yuki Uchida) is a writer who has enjoyed some success as a magazine reporter, but the stress and long hours of her work has caused her to become dependent on drugs and she's physically and Read More

2007
Alive

Synopsis: Ryuhei Kitamura's Alive, based on a highly popular Japanese series of comic books, begins when convicted killer Tenshu, who murdered the people responsible for raping his girlfriend, survives his trip to the electric chair. Officials give him two choices -- either he takes another trip to the Read More

2002
Distance

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Arata, Yusuke Iseya, Yui Natsukawa, Susumu Terajima

Synopsis: Four people whose lives are connected by a common tragedy discuss the paths their lives have taken in this drama from Japan. Minoru (Susumu Terajima) is a businessman, Atsushi (Araka) is a disaffected post-modern teen, Kiyoka (Yui Natsukawa) is an educator, and Masaru (Yusuke Iseya) a quiet young Read More

2001
Gaichu

Actors: Aoi Miyazaki, Seiichi Tanabe, Ryo, Yuu Aoi, Yusuke Iseya

Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed debut Moonlight Whispers (about a sadomasochistic relationship between two teens), Akihiko Shiota once again looks at troubled youth. Sachiko (played by Aoi Miyazaki of Eureka fame) is a 13-year-old junior high school student with a complicated family life. Her father Read More

2001
Gemini

Actors: Masahiro Motoki, Ryo, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Shiho Fujimura, Akaji Maro

Synopsis: Shinya Tsukamoto's latest work is a bit of a departure for the director of such over-the-top cult films as Tetsuo: Iron Man (1989). Though punctuated by his trademark kinetic camera work, this moody gothic horror film has the sort of brittle formalism more common in Japanese domestic dramas of Read More

1999