Ryo KaseFilmography

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Tokyo!

Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Directors Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax each direct a segment of this triptych feature about life in 21st century Tokyo. The saga begins with Gondry's segment, entitled "Interior Design," about a young couple who moves in with an old friend while attempting to establish themselves in Read More

3/6/09
Glasses

Actors: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ken Mitsuishi, Masako Motai

Synopsis: A prim and proper woman in search of serenity at a seaside inn finds her relaxing getaway interrupted in the most unlikely of manners in director Naoko Ogigami's minimalist entry into the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Massive suitcase dragging awkwardly by her side, bespectacled vacationer Taeko Read More

2008
Inu to watashi no 10 no yakusoku

Actors: Lena Tanaka, Ryo Kase, Etsushi Toyokawa

2008
All Around Us

Actors: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Akira Emoto, Susumu Terajima, Ryo Kase, Mitsuko Gaisyo

Synopsis: A courtroom sketch artists takes in the parade of sensationalist trials at work while simultaneously contending with a tragic loss at home in director Ryosuke Hashiguchi's affecting portrait of human fragility. Taciturn Kanao (Lily Franky) has recently wed his high school sweetheart Shoko (Tae Read More

2008
The Sky Crawlers

Actors: Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shosuke Tanihara

Synopsis: This sci-fi tinged, full-length anime feature opens on a peaceful future, where Earth has left the violent conflicts of war in the past. Human nature still craves the clash of battle, however, so private companies now stage "war as entertainment," creating fictional wars for ordinary people to Read More

2008
Scrap Heaven

Actors: Ryo Kase, Jô Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama

Synopsis: A violent and outrageous revenge comedy with a thoughtful undercurrent, director Lee Sang-il's Scrap Heaven opens with three characters united by fate on the same city bus: toilet cleaner Tetsu (Jô Odagiri); police department administrative assistant Kasuya (Ryo Kase), who wants to work his way up Read More

7/20/07
The Invitation from Cinema Orion

Actors: Rie Miyazawa, Ryo Kase, Ryudo Uzaki, Kanako Higuchi, Yoshio Harada

Synopsis: In this warmly nostalgic drama from Japan, Yoshie (Kanako Higuchi) and Yuji (Tomorowo Taguchi) are a middle-aged couple disenchanted with their marriage who one day receive a message inviting them to the final screening at the Cinema Orion, a neighborhood movie house in Kyoto that is soon to Read More

2007
Strawberry Shortcakes

Actors: Chizuru Ikewaki, Noriko Nakagoshi, Yuko Nakamura, Toko Iwase, Ryo Kase

Synopsis: Four very different women search for love and meaning in their lives in the hustle and bustle of downtown Tokyo in this comedy-drama. Satoko (Chizuru Ikewaki) is a bright woman who has somehow ended up working as the front desk clerk at an upscale bordello. While she's bubby and optimistic, Satoko Read More

2007
I Just Didn't Do It

Actors: Ryo Kase, Asaka Seto, Koji Yakusho, Koji Yamamoto, Masako Motai

2007
Letters from Iwo Jima

Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura

Synopsis: After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in Read More

12/9/06
Honey and Clover

Actors: Yu Aoi, Sho Sakurai, Yusuke Iseya, Ryo Kase, Megumi Seki

Synopsis: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Naisu no Mori: The First Contact

Actors: Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Ryo Kase

Synopsis: Taste of Tea director Katsuhito Ishii collaborates with filmmakers Shinichiro Miki and Hajime Ishimine) for this outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother (Tadanobu Asano), his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian Read More

2006
Retribution

Actors: Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Jô Odagiri

Synopsis: Japanese horror producer Taka Ichise -- the force behind Ringu and Ju-on: The Grudge -- and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the director of Pulse, team up for the supernatural horror picture Retribution (aka Sakebi), starring Koji Yakusho, Riona Hazuki, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Manami Konishi, Ryo Kase, Hiroyuki Hirayama Read More

2006
Hana

Actors: Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young Read More

2006
Female

Actors: Kyoko Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Chihiro Otsuka, Mitsuko Ishii, Hairi Katagiri

2005
Bright Future

Actors: Jô Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano, Marumi Shiraishi

Synopsis: Acclaimed Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa departs from the horror genre for this mystical story of urban ennui. Friends Mamoru (Tadanobu Asano) and Yuji (Joe Odagiri) are aimless young men stuck in dead-end jobs in a dreary factory in Tokyo. Mamoru, the more antisocial of the two, is obsessed Read More

11/12/04
About Love

Actors: Misaki Ito, Chen Bo-lin, Yui Ichikawa, Yang Rui, Ryo Kase

2004
Antenna

Actors: Ryo Kase, Akemi Kobayashi, Daisuke Kizaki, Mantaro Koichi, Hiroshi Omori

Synopsis: Tales of a missing girl returned to her family years after being kidnapped flood the news. Yuichiro (Ryo Kase), a college student, returns home one day to find his little brother, Yuya (Daisuke Kizaki), sleeping on his doorstep. Yuya has come to tell Yuichiro that Marie will be coming home soon. Read More

2003