Ryō Kase

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

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. His father Yutaka Kase was former chairman and representative director of Sojitz, a Japanese general trading company.

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

He starred in Masayuki Suo's 2007 film I Just Didn't Do It.

He has also appeared in films such as Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, Michel Gondry's Tokyo!, Gus Van Sant's Restless, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Hong Sang-soo's Hill of Freedom, Takeshi Kitano's Outrage,/ Outrage Beyond, Martin Scorsese's Silence and Paul Weitz's Bel Canto.

"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[12]