Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮, Kase Ryō, born November 9, 1974 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actor.[1][2]
Ryo Kase | |
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加瀬 亮 | |
| Born | (1974-11-09) 9 November 1974 (age 47) Yokohama, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Agent | Ryo Kase Office |
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| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
| Website | ryokaseoffice |
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] He's father Yutaka Kase was former chairman and representative director of Sojitz, a Japanese general trading company.
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]
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.
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| 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 | |||
"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[11]
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