Name
Ryo Ishibashi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1956-07-20 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Kurume, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
Biography
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Ryo Ishibashi (born July 20, 1956) is a Japanese actor and international celebrity. He is known around the world for his roles in the classic Japanese Horror films Suicide Club and Audition. He is also recognized in America for his role as Nakagawa in The Grudge and The Grudge 2.
Ishibashi was born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Kyūshū, Japan. He started his career by starting his own band called the ARB (Alexander Ragtime Band) in 1977. The band made their debut in 1978, and made over a dozen albums until they broke up in 1990. Recently, Ishibashi has resumed his musical activity and re-formed ARB with an album, Real Life in 1998. In 1986, Ishibashi made his movie debut in the film A-Hômansu in which ARB's 13th single "After 45" was used as its theme song. Ryo Ishibashi has been concentrating on his acting career, and has appeared in several movies outside his native country Japan, and became an internationally recognized celebrity.
He won the award for Best Actor at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days.
Ishibashi has been married to Mieko Harada since 1987 and has three children.
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- 2000 Brother as Ishihara
- 2004 The Grudge as Det. Hideto Nakagawa
- 2007 War as Shiro
- 1991 Harikomi
- 2000 Audition as Shigeharu Aoyama
- 2009 Sasori as Jyono
- 1995 The Crossing Guard as Jefferey
- 1996 Kids Return as Local Yakuza Chief
- 2001 Suicide Club as Detective Kuroda
- 2007 Shamo as Principal Saeki
- 2006 Trapped Ashes as Head Monk (segment "Jibaku")
- 1994 Blue Tiger as Gan
- 1991 The Devil's Messenger DEATH MESSENGER
- 2003 第三の時効
- 2010 Box: The Hakamada Case as Police officer Tatematsu
- 1996 Back to Back as Koji
- 2005 The Superdry Films
- 2012 Ace Attorney as Gou Karuma (Manfred von Karma)
- 2001 Jitsuroku Yozakura Ginji 2
- 1995 Another Lonely Hitman as Takashi Tachibana
- 2000 Film Noir as Yuji Hamazaki
- 2002 Aiki as Masatsugu Hiraishi
- 2021 Masquerade Night as Yasushi Fujiki
- 2021 心の傷を癒すということ 劇場版
- 1997 An Obsession as Detective Saga
- 2002 Dog Star
- 2008 The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Kinichi Nihei
- 1997 Pinocchio: A Man Without Nationality
- 2011 Mitsuko Delivers as Jiro
- 2003 g@me.
- 1997 Ringo no usagi
- 2006 The Happiness
- 2003 Moon Child as Inspector Lorry
- 2007 Dream Cruise as Eiji Saito
- 2008 Inju: The Beast in the Shadow as Ryuji Mogi
- 2003 Last Love, First Love
- 2009 MW -ムウ- as Kazuyuki Sawaki
- 1996 Two Punks as Otani
- 2006 Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee as Kinzo Daidoji
- 2006 The Grudge 2 as Det. Hideto Nakagawa
- 2007 The Investigation Game as Yousuke Sone
- 1986 A Homance as Michio Yamazaki
- 1993 American Yakuza as Shuji Sawamoto
- 1996 Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
- 2007 Aoi Hitomi to Nuage as Michihisa Suto
- 1989 Via Okinawa as Sachio
- 1994 Natural Woman
- 2019 Masquerade Hotel as Yasushi Fujiki
- 2006 Waru as Sakuragi
- 2006 Waru: The End
- 1986 Leave My Girl Alone as Kashima
- 1988 Oración
- 2006 Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Warden Tsuchiya
- 2021 The Cinderella Addiction as Masaaki Fukuura
- 1982 So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex as Rachi
- 2019 Dancing Mary as Yakuza thug
- 1998 The Central Quicksand
- 2021 Parasite in Love as Yuichi
- 1982 Future War 198X as Narrator (voice) / Richter (voice)
- 2025 Yukiko a.k.a
- 2024 Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor as Archive Footage
- 2025 Trillion Game as Wolf Lee
- 1994 Level
- 1996 Jinrai: The Boss's Ransom
- 2012 Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
- 2026 Sasamakura as Tatsugorō Horikawa
- 2005 横山秀夫サスペンス「モノクロームの反転」
- 2005 Haru and Natsu ( 5 episodes ) as Unno Commander
- 2012 Wonderful Single Life ( 11 episodes ) as Toru Higuchi
- 2010 Perfect Report ( 1 episode )
- 2016 The Price ( 6 episodes )
- 2013 Lady Joker ( 7 episodes )
- 2009 Rescue: Pride of Orange ( 9 episodes ) as Serizawa Shinobu
- 2022 Involvement in Family Affairs ( 12 episodes ) as Keiichi Miyama
- 2003 Beginner ( 11 episodes ) as Hiroya Nozaki（野佐木 恍也）
- 2014 Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out ( 11 episodes ) as Shogo Dojima
- 2002 AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo ( 2 episodes ) as Norio Mikumo
- 2006 Rondo ( 11 episodes ) as Yoshihiko Isaki
- 2004 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ ( 1 episode ) as Kinzō Daidōji
- 1994 Okane ga Nai! ( 12 episodes )
- 2022 Modern Love Tokyo ( 1 episode ) as Kosuke Hayami
- 2018 Smoking ( 12 episodes ) as Sabe
- 2014 Stock Price Crash ( 5 episodes ) as Chiharu Zaizen
- 2019 The Naked Director ( 2 episodes ) as Ikezawa
- 2002 Psycho Doctor ( 1 episode ) as Kohei Kitamura
- 2016 メガバンク最終決戦 ( 6 episodes )
- 2020 To Heal the Heart ( 4 episodes ) as An Tekkei
- 2013 神様のボート ( 3 episodes ) as 모모이
- 1991 あしたがあるから ( 10 episodes )
- 2024 MONSTER ( 2 episodes )
- 2013 七つの会議 ( 4 episodes ) as 北川誠
- 2003 Say Hello to Black Jack ( 3 episodes )
- 2015 The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk ( 1 episode )
- 2026 A Moonlight Nights Passing ( 10 episodes )
