Ryo Kase

Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮, Kase Ryō, born November 9, 1974 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actor.[1][2]

Ryo Kase
加瀬 亮
Kase at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival
Born (1974-11-09) 9 November 1974
Yokohama, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationActor
Years active2000–present
AgentRyo Kase Office
Known for
Height174 cm (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Websiteryokaseoffice.com/index_english.html

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

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

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

References
  1. "Ryo Kase Official Site".
  2. 加瀬亮 [Ryo Kase] (in Japanese). Yahoo Japan Corporation. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  3. Mark Schilling (14 September 2012). "Nice guy actor Ryo Kase plays rough in 'Like Someone in Love'". The Japan Times.
  4. Nick Schager (10 October 2007). "I Just Didn't Do It - Film Review - Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine.
  5. Todd McCarthy (12 May 2011). "Restless: Cannes Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  6. Peter Bradshaw (21 May 2012). "Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love – review". The Guardian.
  7. "Nice Guy Actor Ryo Kase Plays Tough In Like Someone In Love". Japan Times. 2012-09-14.
  8. Kelly Vance (7 December 2011). "Outrage - Movie Reviews - Kelly Vance - East Bay Express". East Bay Express.
  9. Lee Marshall (3 September 2012). "Outrage Beyond - Review - Screen". Screen Daily. Screen.
  10. "'SPEC' to spawn another movie and drama special next fall". 6Theory Media, LLC. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  11. "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.
  12. "小津安二郎大全 = OZU".
  13. Bellevue Ryo Kase:加瀬亮-写真+言葉+全作品 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. キネマ旬報ベスト・テン (in Japanese). Kinema-Junposha.Co.Ltd. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 報知映画賞 歴代受賞一覧 (in Japanese). The Hochi Shimbun. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  20. 第50回ブルーリボン賞. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. "The 2nd Asian Film Awards". Asian Film Awards. Archived from the original on 2012-06-18. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  24. "全国映連賞". 全国映連 (in Japanese). Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  25. 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.
  26. 第69回毎日映画コンクール (in Japanese). Mainichi Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
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