Ryo Iwamatsu
Popularity:0.435
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1952-03-26
Place of Birth:Kawatana, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Homepage:http://dongyu.co.jp/profile/ryoiwamatsu/
Also Known As:Ryō Iwamatsu, Ryou Iwamatsu, いわまつ りょう, 이마와쓰 료

Dear Doctor (2009)
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant...

Cutie Honey (2004)
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him....

In the Pool (2005)
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

Inubu: The Dog Club (2021)
Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment is...

Gonin (1995)
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by...

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005)
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for...

Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

Turning Point (1994)
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Instant Swamp (2009)
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her...

Quartet for Two (2001)
Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to...

Sawako Decides (2010)
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his...

The Man of the Political Economy (2015)
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...

Hush! (2001)
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious...

Crossroads (2011)
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

The Last Days of the World (2012)
The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he...

In the Wake (2021)
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...

Sunday's Dream (2005)
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...

Sabakan (2022)
Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although there are many quarrels between couples, is a...

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler (2013)
Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same...

It's Me It's Me (2013)
Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother...

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? (2022)
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and...

Damejin (2006)
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When...

8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper (2010)
With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl rappers who dream of a small big-time. The...

119 (1994)
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly......

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful...

Convenience Story (2022)
Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potential movies but makes no headway whatsoever, and...

Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2013)
Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching...

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia (2007)
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the...

Into a Dream (2005)
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of...

Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers (1993)
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

The Hit-and-Run Family (1992)
Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally...

MARKS (1995)
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Invisible War (2007)
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society.

Beijing Watermelon (1989)
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...

A Man with Style (2011)
Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that...

The Apology King (2013)
Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by...

Original Sin (1992)
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.

A Night in Nude (1993)
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and...

Wakamusha (2024)
Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. The three wander the streets, ruminating on the pointlessness of life in the...

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005)
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

Mind Game (1998)
Japanese film directed by Hiromasa Taguchi.

The Complex (2013)
Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is...

Samurai Fiction (1998)
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

Yamagata Scream (2009)
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr....

March Comes In Like a Lion (2017)
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by...

Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)
The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how...

Lesson of the Evil: Prologue (2012)
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life.

March Goes out Like a Lamb (2017)
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an...

Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a...

Laughing Lucky Cats (2017)
Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo...

The Cat in Their Arms (2018)
A 33-year-old supermarket worker at a provincial city used to be an idol, but could not see a future as a singer. Sick of everything, she moved to a...

Joryu Tohaiden Aki (2017)
Aki was practically born and raised in a mahjong parlor. At the age of 15, she goes to Tokyo during winter and although she is knocked around by the...

Goodbye, Grandpa! (2017)
A 20 something girl Yoshiko is having sex with her boyfriend when a shocking telephone call arrives - grandpa has passed away. The lightning from...

Sky Cannot Be This Blue (1993)
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company,...

Air Doll (2009)
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...

Faces of a Fig Tree (2006)
Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.

LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp! (2018)
Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of...

Shin Ultraman (2022)
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly...

The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...

Guilty of Romance (2011)
In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life...

Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal...

A Family (2021)
Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

Love Exposure (2009)
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn...

The Days of Morisaki Bookstore (2010)
After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a...

Step (2020)
Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she attended nursery school until her graduation from...

Zebraman (2004)
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

Remain In Twilight (2021)
Six friends, who hanged out together during their high school days, gather again after 5 years for a friend's wedding. The six friends are: Kazuki...

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought...

Pieta in the Toilet (2015)
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to...

Every Trick In The Book (2021)
Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business...

孤独のグルメ 2022大晦日スペシャル 年忘れ、食の格闘技。カニの使いはあらたいへん。 (2022)

Gu Gu the Cat (2014)
About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her work from home job. One day when forced...

THE LIMIT (2021)
Unexpected pasts, hidden intentions and startling facts … The true nature of people become apparent when faced with confined spaces, limited...

How to be Likable in a Crisis (2021)
Makoto Kanzaki is a PR man at a university. He is swept up in a series of scandals and is driven into a corner as he tries to make temporary...

Time Limit Investigator (2006)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are...

The Private Detective Mike (2002)
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for...

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (2008)
Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is...

The Long Goodbye (2014)
Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa...

A Fading Summer (2015)
A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly...

Atami's Police Investigators (2010)
The story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one...

He's Expecting (2022)
When a successful ad executive who's got it all figured out becomes pregnant, he's forced to confront social inequities he'd never considered before.

Unification of Japan Kanto Edition (2023)
After a Kyowakai member is killed, detectives Shima and Hayami investigate the case, which is connected to recent unsolved murders. Kyowakai also...

The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary (2024)
Kishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself transferring to the lexicography division following the...

CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team....

Mars: Zero's Revolution (2024)
Zero Mishima is a mysterious 19-year-old transfer student who incites dropout high school students to "destroy this world with me." Although he is a...

Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~ (2016)
A "Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon" spinoff starring Masanobu Katsumura as surgeon Hideki Kaji, the "wizard of laparoscopy."

Neo Ultra Q (2013)
Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.

Renovation Like Magic (2022)
Thirty-year-old Koume Shingyouji leaves her job at a major building firm to join family-run Marufuku Builders. There she teams up with Gennosuke, the...

Nodame Cantabile (2006)
When a classically trained young conductor meets a free-spirited pianist at music school, their romance and their music have a hard time harmonizing.

Ningen Kowai (2022)
Rakugo has the image of a humorous story, but it is also a treasure trove of “scary stories”. Among them, this work boldly arranges a...

A Town Without Seasons (2023)
It follows a group of people who are still living in temporary housing 12 years after a natural disaster called "Nani" destroyed their town.

Tokkan (2012)
'Tokkan' tells a story of Suzumiya Miki, a newbie tax collector who learns the strictness and difficulties of working through her job. Miki is called...

My Dear Exes (2021)
Omameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing". She has experienced three divorces and is currently...

The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)
In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to handle crimes relating to these machines.

Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama? (2016)
One morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the classroom. A strange school life begins as the...

Madame Butterfly (2011)
Like the opera, the story is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s. It portrays the ups and downs of a young woman known as Butterfly, who lost her...

Lesson of the Evil: Prologue (2020)
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life.

Love and Hongkong (2017)
A new movie director attempts to make a documentary about a Japanese actress/model who is returning to her hometown of Hong Kong. He is seen...

Midnight Diner (2009)
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of...

Midnight Diner (1970)
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for...

Midnight Diner (1970)
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for...

Midnight Diner (1970)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are...

Midnight Diner (1970)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are...