Ryo Ishibashi
67 movies · 27 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 20, 1956 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Kurume, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
- Also known as
- Hideki Ishibashi · Ryou Ishabashi · Ryo Ishabashi · Ryô Ishibashi
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.
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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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Known for
Ryo Ishibashi: movies and TV shows
Acting (94)
- 2026 Sasamakura
as Tatsugorō Horikawa
- 2026
- 2025 Trillion Game
as Wolf Lee
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024 Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor
as Archive Footage
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021 Parasite in Love
as Yuichi
- 2021 Masquerade Night
as Yasushi Fujiki
- 2021 The Cinderella Addiction
as Masaaki Fukuura
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019 Dancing Mary
as Yakuza thug
- 2019
- 2019 Masquerade Hotel
as Yasushi Fujiki
- 2018
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012 Ace Attorney
as Gou Karuma (Manfred von Karma)
- 2011 Mitsuko Delivers
as Jiro
- 2010
- 2010 Box: The Hakamada Case
as Police officer Tatematsu
- 2009 Sasori
as Jyono
- 2009 MW
as Kazuyuki Sawaki
- 2009
- 2008 Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
as Ryuji Mogi
- 2008 The Most Beautiful Night In The World
as Kinichi Nihei
- 2007 Aoi Hitomi to Nuage
as Michihisa Suto
- 2007 The Investigation Game
as Yousuke Sone
- 2007 War
as Shiro
- 2007 Shamo
as Principal Saeki
- 2007 Dream Cruise
as Eiji Saito
- 2006
- 2006 The Grudge 2
as Det. Hideto Nakagawa
- 2006 Trapped Ashes
as Head Monk (segment "Jibaku")
- 2006
- 2006 Waru
as Sakuragi
- 2006 Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Warden Tsuchiya
- 2006
- 2006 Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee
as Kinzo Daidoji
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 The Grudge
as Det. Hideto Nakagawa
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 Moon Child
as Inspector Lorry
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002 Aiki
as Masatsugu Hiraishi
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001 Suicide Club
as Detective Kuroda
- 2001
- 2000 Brother
as Ishihara
- 2000 Film Noir
as Yuji Hamazaki
- 2000 Audition
as Shigeharu Aoyama
- 1998
- 1997 An Obsession
as Detective Saga
- 1997
- 1997
- 1996 Two Punks
as Otani
- 1996 Back to Back
as Koji
- 1996 Kids Return
as Local Yakuza Chief
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995 Another Lonely Hitman
as Takashi Tachibana
- 1995 The Crossing Guard
as Jefferey
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994 Blue Tiger
as Gan
- 1993 American Yakuza
as Shuji Sawamoto
- 1991
- 1991
- 1991
- 1989 Via Okinawa
as Sachio
- 1988
- 1986 Leave My Girl Alone
as Kashima
- 1986 A Homance
as Michio Yamazaki
- 1982 So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
as Rachi
- 1982 Future War 198X
as Narrator (voice) / Richter (voice)