Ryo Ishibashi
Actor
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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Filmography
War
as Shiro Yanagawa 2007
Audition
as Shigeharu Aoyama 2000
The Grudge 2
as Det. Hideto Nakagawa 2006
Suicide Club
as Detective Kuroda 2001
Brother
as Ishihara 2000
Kids Return
as Local Yakuza Chief 1996
The Crossing Guard
as Jefferey 1995
Ace Attorney
as Gou Karuma (Manfred von Karma) 2012
American Yakuza
as Shuji Sawamoto 1993
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Warden Tsuchiya 2006
Trapped Ashes
as Head Monk (segment "Jibaku") 2006
Masquerade Hotel
as Yasushi Fujiki 2019
Moon Child
as Inspector Lorry 2003
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
as Ryuji Mogi 2008
Dream Cruise
as Eiji Saito 2007
Shamo
as Principal Saeki 2007