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Ryo Kase
加瀬 亮
Born (1974-11-09) 9 November 1974 (age 50)
Yokohama, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationActor
Years active2000–present
AgentRyo Kase Office
Known for
Websiteryokaseoffice.com/index_english.html

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

Early life

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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 major Japanese general trading company.

Career

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Kase made his screen debut in Sogo Ishii's Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle in 2000.[3]

That same year, Kase received his major break when he starred in the critically acclaimed film I Just Didn't Do It [4] (2007), directed by Masayuki Suo, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the 31st Japan Academy Prize and the 2nd Asia Film Award, among other domestic and international film awards.

In 2010, Kase played a yakuza mobster[5] in Takeshi Kitano’s highly anticipated return to the crime genre Outrage (アウトレイジ, Autoreiji) which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was a major success,  grossing 634 million yen[6] at the Japan Box office, leading to two sequels.[7][8]

In 2023, Kase reunited with Takeshi Kitano in the Japanese film Kubi about the Honnō-ji Incident. In the film, Kase portrayed the historical figure, Oda Nobunaga, a charismatic military leader revered and feared as a demon king in Japan.[9] His wildly mad-like performance was highly praised by many journalists at the Cannes Film Festival. In Japan, this portrayal of Nobunaga, which diverges greatly from his public image of being cold yet violent but also deeply human and virtuous, has sparked debate. Some audience members felt that the character setting demeaned the historical figure, while others believed the acting was so realistic it seemed to overwrite the actual image of Nobunaga himself. When director Takeshi Kitano shared this original idea with the late director Akira Kurosawa, he was told that if Kitano were to make it, it could become a masterpiece on par with Seven Samurai. This work won several awards at the 47th Japan Academy Prize, including Excellence in Cinematography, Excellence in Lighting, Excellence in Art Direction, Excellence in Sound Recording, and Excellence in Editing. Ryo Kase, who played Nobunaga, also won the award for Excellent Supporting Actor.[10]

International Films

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From the beginning of his career, Kase took advantage of his English fluency and participated in international films from various countries in Asia, Europe, and America.

His first American film was Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) directed by Clint Eastwood, where he delicately portrayed a complex character of a former military policeman turned young soldier. He made his Cannes Film Festival debut with Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love (2012). He has also appeared in Michel Gondry's Tokyo! (2008), Gus Van Sant's Restless (2011) with Mia Wasikowska, Hong Sang-soo's Hill of Freedom (2014), and Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016). In Paul Weitz's Bel Canto, he starred alongside Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. In the film Minamata, inspired by a photo collection of Japan's pollution lawsuit taken by the late photographer Eugene Smith,[11] he co-starred with Johnny Depp and Hiroyuki Sanada. In 2014, when Hong Sang-soo's Hill of Freedom was released, he was selected as the Best Actor by CINE21, a Korean film magazine, despite being a foreigner. In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's To the Ends of the Earth (2019), he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 14th Asia Film Awards.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2000 Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle Kamuro
2001 Misuzu Masasuke
Hush! Soba-ya cashier
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack Fisher
2002 Rock'n'Roll Mishin Kenji Hamada
2003 Bright Future Fuyuki Arita
When the Last Sword Is Drawn Shohei Kondo
Kakuto Shinji
2004 Cutie Honey Todoroki
69 Ryo Otaki
The Taste of Tea Rokutaro Hamadayama
Nobody Knows Mini-market employee [12]
2005 Break Throughi! Hideto Noguchi
Female Man Segment "Tamamushi"
About Love Tecchan Segment "Taipei"
Scrap Heaven Police officer Shingo
The Passenger Akira
Custom Made 10.30 Probationer angel "Jeff"
Dead Run Yuji Miyahara
Su-ki-da
2006 Funky Forest Takefumi
Hana Sodekichi
Honey and Clover Takumi Mayama
Strawberry Shortcakes Nagai
Letters from Iwo Jima Superior Private Shimizu
Retribution Sailor
2007 I Just Didn't Do It Teppei Kaneko Lead role [13]
Megane Yomogi
2008 10 Promises to My Dog Susumu Hoshi
Gururi no koto Tsuyoshi Tanaka [14]
The Sky Crawlers Yūichi Kannami (voice) [15]
Paco and the Magical Book Kōichi
Tokyo! Akira Segment "Interior Design"
2009 Gravity's Clowns Izumi Okuno Lead role [16]
2010 Outrage Ishihara
Sketches of Kaitan City Haruo Meguro
About Her Brother Akira
2011 Restless Hiroshi
2012 Like Someone in Love Noriaki
Outrage Beyond Ishihara
SPEC: Ten Takeru Sebumi Lead role [17]
2013 It's Me It's Me Tajima
Pecoross' Mother and Her Days Satoru Okano
SPEC: Close Takeru Sebumi Lead role [17]
Dawn of a Filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita Lead role
2014 Hill of Freedom Mori
My Hawaiian Discovery Tomoya Abe
Judge!
2015 Our Little Sister Miu Sakashita
Foujita Kanjiro
2016 Japanese Girls Never Die Sawai (Policeman)
Silence João (Chokichi)
2017 March Comes in Like a Lion Tōji Sōya
March Goes out Like a Lamb Tōji Sōya
Moonlight Shimo-ochiai Lead role
2018 Mori, The Artist's Habitat Takeshi Fujita
Lying to Mom Kōichi Suzuki
Bel Canto Gen Watanabe [18]
2019 To the Ends of the Earth Iwao [19]
2020 Minamata Kiyoshi [20]
The Works and Days Ryo Sasaki [21]
2023 Kubi Oda Nobunaga [22]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2010 SPEC: Birth Takeru Sebumi Lead role [23]
2012 Penance Koji Takano Episode 3 [24]
2025 Anpan Yutaro Asada Asadora [25]

Writings

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"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[26]

Bibliography

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Awards and nominations

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2004

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2007

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2008

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2010

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  • 1st Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor[39]

2013

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References

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  4. ^ "Soredemo boku wa yattenai". IMDb.
  5. ^ Kitano, Takeshi (2010-06-12), Autoreiji (Action, Crime, Drama), Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shîna, Ryô Kase, Bandai Visual Company, Office Kitano, Omnibus Japan, retrieved 2024-06-16
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  9. ^ Kitano, Takeshi (2023-11-23), Kubi (Action, Drama, History), Takeaki Abe, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Tadanobu Asano, Kadokawa, Toho, retrieved 2024-06-16
  10. ^ Cho, Suzie (2024-03-12). "The 47th Japan Academy Film Prize Announces Winners, "Godzilla Minus One" wins Eight Awards including Best Picture". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  11. ^ "Minamata • W. Eugene Smith • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos". Magnum Photos. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
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  15. ^ "スカイ・クロラ The Sky Crawlers". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 March 2025.
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  26. ^ "小津安二郎大全 = OZU".
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  40. ^ 第69回毎日映画コンクール (in Japanese). Mainichi Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
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