Ryo Iwamatsu Filmography

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Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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Adrift in Tokyo

Actors: Jô Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura, Kyoko Koizumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ryo Iwamatsu

Synopsis: Two men form an unlikely bond during a long walk through a big city in this independent drama from Japan. Fumiya Takemura (Joe Odagiri) is a college student with an addiction to gambling; he owes over $8,000 to bookies, and doesn't have the money to pay them off. Fumiya is approached by Fukuhara Read More

2008
Then Summer Came

Crew: Director

Actors: Jô Odagiri, Yoshio Harada

Synopsis: Acclaimed Japanese playwright and theater director Ryo Iwamatsu takes the helm for this family drama concerning a complacent father (Yoshio Harada) and son (Joe Odagiri) whose already volatile relationship threatens to erupt into a tempestuous firestorm as the son's wedding draws rapidly near. Read More

2008
Faces of a Fig Tree

Actors: Kaori Momoi, Hanako Yamada, Saburo Ishikura, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Katsumi Takahashi

Synopsis: Japanese writer-director Kaori Momoi's feature Faces of a Fig Tree (AKA Ichijiku No Kao) observes the tragedies that begin to pull apart the ties of the Kadowaki family. The story opens with the clan rough-hewn but tightly-knit by the bonds of intimacy. Circumstances start to go awry when the Read More

2006
Nichiyobi Wa Owaranai

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kenji Mizuhashi, Tetsu Watanabe, Shinya Tsukamoto

2000
Oshimai No Hi

Actors: Nae Yuuki, Kazuya Takahashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Noriko Nagi, Masahiro Kiyota

Synopsis: Japanese filmmaker Takumi Kimizuka directed this darkly comic look at the sordid underside of a supposedly happy marriage. Mitsuko (Nae Yuki) and Haru are a young couple who live a life of bourgeois respectability in a clean, modern home in a good neighborhood. But Haru has overextended himself Read More

1999
Ohaka to Rikon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ryo Iwamatsu makes his directorial debut with this bittersweet marriage drama. Yoshinori (Kaoru Kobayashi) not only is the star salesman of his cemetery real estate agency, but he believes in his product thoroughly. He tells one hopeless indecisive client (Sachiko Hidari) that buying a grave not Read More

1993
Bakayaro! 2: Shiawase ni Naritai

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Noted director Yoshimitsu Morita -- noted in the West for Family Game -- writes and produces this wacky omnibus collection of comic shorts. For a language which has few of the juicy four-letter explicatives of English or German, the word Bakayaro -- meaning idiot or fool -- is one of a Read More

1989

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Ryo Iwamatsu Filmography

Adrift in Tokyo

Then Summer Came

Faces of a Fig Tree

Nichiyobi Wa Owaranai

Oshimai No Hi

Ohaka to Rikon

Bakayaro! 2: Shiawase ni Naritai

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