Ryo Kase
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Hill of Freedom
- Outrage
- Like Someone in Love
- Restless
- Silence
Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮, Kase Ryō, born November 9, 1974 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actor.[1][2]
Early life
Kase was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture. He moved to Bellevue, Washington in the United States soon after his birth, due to his father's job being transferred.[3] His father Yutaka Kase was former chairman and representative director of Sojitz, a Japanese general trading company.
Career
Kase made his screen debut in Sogo Ishii's Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle in 2000.[3]
He starred in Masayuki Suo's 2007 film I Just Didn't Do It.[4]
International films
He has also appeared in films such as Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, Michel Gondry's Tokyo!, Gus Van Sant's Restless,[5] Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love,[6][7] Hong Sang-soo's Hill of Freedom, Takeshi Kitano's Outrage,[8]/ Outrage Beyond,[9] Martin Scorsese's Silence and Paul Weitz's Bel Canto.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle | Kamuro | Sogo Ishii | |
2001 | Misuzu | Masasuke | Sho Igarashi | |
Hush! | Soba-ya cashier | Ryosuke Hashiguchi | ||
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack | Fisher | Shūsuke Kaneko | ||
2002 | Rock'n'Roll Mishin | Kenji Hamada | Isao Yukisada | |
2003 | Bright Future | Fuyuki Arita | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | |
When the Last Sword Is Drawn | Shohei Kondo | Yōjirō Takita | ||
Kakuto | Shinji | Yūsuke Iseya | ||
2004 | Cutie Honey | Todoroki | Hideaki Anno | |
69 | Ryo Otaki | Sang-il Lee | ||
The Taste of Tea | Rokutaro Hamadayama | Katsuhito Ishii | ||
Nobody Knows | Mini-market employee | Hirokazu Koreeda | ||
2005 | Break Throughi! | Hideto Noguchi | Kazuyuki Izutsu | |
Female | Man | Ryuichi Hiroki Suzuki Matsuo Shinya Tsukamoto | Segment "Tamamushi" | |
About Love | Tecchan | Ten Shimoyama Yee Chin-yen Zhang Yibai | Segment "Taipei" | |
Scrap Heaven | Police officer Shingo | Sang-il Lee | ||
The Passenger | Akira | François Rotger | ||
Custom Made 10.30 | Probationer angel "Jeff" | Hajime Ishimine | ||
Dead Run | Yuji Miyahara | SABU | ||
Su-ki-da | Hiroshi Ishikawa | |||
2006 | Funky Forest | Takefumi | Katsuhito Ishii | |
Hana | Sodekichi | Hirokazu Koreeda | ||
Honey and Clover | Takumi Mayama | Masahiro Takata | ||
Strawberry Shortcakes | Nagai | Hitoshi Yazaki | ||
Letters from Iwo Jima | Superior Private Shimizu | Clint Eastwood | ||
Retribution | Sailor | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | ||
2007 | I Just Didn't Do It | Teppei Kaneko | Masayuki Suo | |
Megane | Yomogi | Naoko Ogigami | ||
2008 | 10 Promises to My Dog | Susumu Hoshi | Katsuhide Motoki | |
Gururi no koto | Tsuyoshi Tanaka | Ryōsuke Hashiguchi | ||
The Sky Crawlers | Yūichi Kannami | Mamoru Oshii | ||
Paco and the Magical Book | Kōichi | Tetsuya Nakashima | ||
Tokyo! | Akira | Michel Gondry Leos Carax Bong Joon-ho | Segment "Interior Design" | |
2009 | A Pierrot | Izumi Okuno | Junichi Mori | |
2010 | Outrage | Ishihara | Takeshi Kitano | |
Sketches of Kaitan City | Haruo Meguro | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | ||
About Her Brother | Akira | Yoji Yamada | ||
2011 | Restless | Hiroshi | Gus Van Sant | |
2012 | Like Someone in Love | Noriaki | Abbas Kiarostami | |
Outrage Beyond | Ishihara | Takeshi Kitano | ||
SPEC: Ten | Takeru Sebumi | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | [10] | |
2013 | It's Me It's Me | Tajima | Satoshi Miki | |
Pecoross' Mother and Her Days | Satoru Okano | Azuma Morisaki | ||
SPEC: Close | Takeru Sebumi | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | [10] | |
Dawn of a Filmmaker | Keisuke Kinoshita | Keiichi Hara | ||
2014 | Hill of Freedom | Mori | Hong Sang-soo | |
My Hawaiian Discovery | Tomoya Abe | Koji Maeda | ||
Judge! | Akira Nagai | |||
2015 | Our Little Sister | Miu Sakashita | Hirokazu Koreeda | |
Foujita | Kanjiro | Kōhei Oguri | ||
2016 | Japanese Girls Never Die | Sawai (Policeman) | Daigo Matsui | |
Silence | João (Chokichi) | Martin Scorsese | ||
2017 | March Comes in Like a Lion | Tōji Sōya | Keishi Ōtomo | |
March Goes out Like a Lamb | Tōji Sōya | Keishi Ōtomo | ||
Moonlight Shimo-ochiai | Tasuku Emoto | |||
2018 | Mori, The Artist's Habitat | Takeshi Fujita | Shūichi Okita | |
Lying to Mom | Kōichi Suzuki | Katsumi Nojiri | ||
Bel Canto | Gen Watanabe | Paul Weitz | ||
2019 | To the Ends of the Earth | Iwao | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | |
2020 | Minamata | Kiyoshi | Andrew Levitas | |
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | Anders Edström, C.W. Winter | |||
2023 | Kubi | Oda Nobunaga | Takeshi Kitano | [11] |
Television
- Penance (2012)
- Zoku. Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi (2014)
- Kono Machi no Inochi ni (2016)
- Mozart in the Jungle (2018)
Writings
"Minna no Ozu-kai" in Ozu Yasujiro Taizen (The Complete Book of Ozu Yasujiro) by Matsuura Kanji and Miyamoto Akiko (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. 2019) ISBN 9784022515995[12]
Bibliography
- Bellevue Ryo Kase (July 2006, Media Factory) ISBN 4840115591[13]
Awards
2004
- 14th Japan Film Professional Awards Best Actor[14]
2007
- 17th Japan Film Professional Awards: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[15]
- 81st Kinema Junpo Award: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[16]
- 21st Takasaki Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor[17]
2008
- 31st Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[18]
- 32nd Hochi Film Award: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[19]
- 50th Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[20]
- 29th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[21]
- 3rd Osaka Cinema Festival: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[22]
- 2nd Asian Film Awards: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[23]
- 27th Zenkoku Eiren Awards: Best Actor for I Just Didn't Do It[24]
2010
- 1st Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor[25]
2013
- 67th Mainichi Film Award: Best Supporting Actor for Beyond Outrage[26]
References
- ^ "Ryo Kase Official Site".
- ^ 加瀬亮 [Ryo Kase] (in Japanese). Yahoo Japan Corporation. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ a b Mark Schilling (14 September 2012). "Nice guy actor Ryo Kase plays rough in 'Like Someone in Love'". The Japan Times.
- ^ Nick Schager (10 October 2007). "I Just Didn't Do It - Film Review - Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine.
- ^ Todd McCarthy (12 May 2011). "Restless: Cannes Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Peter Bradshaw (21 May 2012). "Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love – review". The Guardian.
- ^ "Nice Guy Actor Ryo Kase Plays Tough In Like Someone In Love". Japan Times. 2012-09-14.
- ^ Kelly Vance (7 December 2011). "Outrage - Movie Reviews - Kelly Vance - East Bay Express". East Bay Express.
- ^ Lee Marshall (3 September 2012). "Outrage Beyond - Review - Screen". Screen Daily. Screen.
- ^ a b "'SPEC' to spawn another movie and drama special next fall". 6Theory Media, LLC. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ "北野武監督『首』今秋公開決定!ティザービジュアルが解禁!". Fan's Voice. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ "小津安二郎大全 = OZU".
- ^ Bellevue Ryo Kase:加瀬亮-写真+言葉+全作品 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第14回日本映画プロフェッショナル大賞. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第17回日本映画プロフェッショナル大賞. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ キネマ旬報ベスト・テン (in Japanese). Kinema-Junposha.Co.Ltd. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 受賞作品 会社情報 テレビマンユニオン (in Japanese). TV Man Union, Inc. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第31回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize Association. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 報知映画賞 歴代受賞一覧 (in Japanese). The Hochi Shimbun. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第50回ブルーリボン賞. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第29回ヨコハマ映画祭 2007年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival website. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第3回おおさかシネマフェスティバル (in Japanese). Osaka Film Festival Executive Committee. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ "The 2nd Asian Film Awards". Asian Film Awards. Archived from the original on 2012-06-18. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ "全国映連賞". 全国映連 (in Japanese). Retrieved August 27, 2022.
- ^ 第1回日本シアタースタッフ映画祭 (in Japanese). Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ 第69回毎日映画コンクール (in Japanese). Mainichi Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
External links
- Agency profile
- Ryo Kase at IMDb