Ryo Iwamatsu

ActorDirectorWriter Mar 26 (age 74) Kawatana, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan 1987–2026 (39 year career)

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Biography

Playwright, stage director, actor, and film director.

Known For

Film

Love Exposure

President

Film

Tokyo Ghoul

Akihiro Kano

Film

Shin Ultraman

Hajime Komuro

Film

Air Doll

Video Shop Owner

Film

Guilty of Romance

Supermarket Manager

Film

Lesson of the Evil

Masao Nadamori

Film

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Yoshiaki Hachiya

Film

A Family

Kazuhiko Osako

Filmography

Acting (124)

Movies (88)

Diamonds in the Sand

2025

as Kawase

Don’t Look for Me

Wakamusha

峠の我が家

Tokyo Cowboy

as President Miwa

カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？

Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition

Shin Ultraman

as Hajime Komuro

Convenience Story

Sabakan

as Uchida

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

2022

as Bokudo Ioroi

4.5

Solitary Gourmet New Year’s Eve Special ~Crab Errand Sure is Tough~

as Kobayashi Hiroshi

A Family

as Kazuhiko Osako

Inubu: The Dog Club

as Genjiro Amuro

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021

as Yoshiaki Hachiya

7.7

Every Trick In The Book

In the Wake

as Narazaki

Remain In Twilight

Step

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

2019

6.0

The Cat in Their Arms

2018

as old cat

5.3

Black Dahlia

2018

LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!

2018

as Muryo Record Company CEO

5.9

Goodbye, Grandpa!

2017

as Akio Haruno

Tokyo Ghoul

2017

as Akihiro Kano

7.1

Memoirs of a Murderer

2017

as Akihiro Yamagata

6.8

March Comes In Like a Lion

as Takanori Jinguji

Laughing Lucky Cats

as Joji Iwakura

吹く風は秋

March Goes out Like a Lamb

2017

as Takanori Jinguji

7.1

Joryu Tohaiden Aki

2017

as Takeo Kojima

Pieta in the Toilet

2015

as Hiroshi's Father

6.7

The Man of the Political Economy

2015

The Vancouver Asahi

2014

as Tadakura Miyake

6.8

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler

It's Me It's Me

as Detective Murano

The Complex

The Apology King

as Film director

Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

as Yuichi Okano

Lesson of the Evil

as Masao Nadamori

Lesson of the Evil: Prologue

2012

5.8

The Last Days of the World

2012

4.2

Guilty of Romance

2011

as Supermarket Manager

Crossroads

A Man with Style

Early Autumn

The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

as Sabu

Sawako Decides

as Nobuo

8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper

Instant Swamp

as Kamesaka

Dear Doctor

as Yoshifumi Okayasu

Air Doll

as Video Shop Owner

Yamagata Scream

as Chomei Okagaitokon

8.0

Love Exposure

2008

as President

8.0

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007

as Editor on the phone (voice)

Adrift in Tokyo

as Kunimatsu

Invisible War

as Tajiri

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

as Gang Boss

Faces of a Fig Tree

Damejin

as Numa-san

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

2006

5.6

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers

2005

as Shizuo Kugitani

6.4

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

as Foreman

Into a Dream

as Machida

In the Pool

as General Manager Maenishi

Cutie Honey

as Goki

Zebraman

as Kanda

TRUNK

Quartet for Two

as Taxi driver

Hush!

as Gynecologist

The Last Day

Sunday's Dream

Dog Race

as Asano

MIND GAME

Samurai Fiction

as Muroto

MARKS

as Director Takeuchi

Gonin

as Man at the Toilet

Turning Point

119

as Member of Main Station

6.0

Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers

1993

Sky Cannot Be This Blue

1993

as Banker

A Night in Nude

1993

as Shimura

5.7

The Hit-and-Run Family

A Canned Crab

Original Sin

Bakayarō! 4 You!

as (segment "カラダだけの男")

Beijing Watermelon

1989

as Policeman

6.3

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

1988

as Tokyo Shoji Employee

5.7

Television (36)

Sins of Kujo

2026

as Yuzo Yamashiro

4.3

Ginga no Ippyo

2026 Upcoming

as 樫田敦史

Apr 20

The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary

2024

as Araki Kohei

6.5

Mars: Zero's Revolution

2024

as Komiyama Shigeru

6.5

Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition

2023

A Town Without Seasons

2023

as Kyota

8.3

Renovation Like Magic

Ningen Kowai

He's Expecting

My Dear Exes

as Osuke Omameda

How to be Likable in a Crisis

2021

5.0

THE LIMIT

2021

as 斉藤学

‎Lesson of the Evil: Prologue

as Nadamori Masao

劇場の灯を消すな！本多劇場編

Love and Hongkong

as Nari Katagiri

Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?

2016

as [Principal]

7.7

Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~

A Fading Summer

as Shuhei Inoue

Napoleon's Village

as Fumio Kita

Hanako & Anne

2014

as Urushibara Mitsuma

7.3

The Next Generation: Patlabor

Gu Gu the Cat

as Hideo Tachibana

The Long Goodbye

as Zaizen

Neo Ultra Q

as Professor Fukuda

The Locked Room Murders

as Togashi Kotatsu

Tokkan

as Hajime Mayosato

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

2011

7.2

Madame Butterfly

2011

as Ohta Kisaburo

大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１２「サッドソング・フォー・アグリードーター」

2011

Atami's Police Investigators

as Tokusaburo Sagami

Azamijô no lullaby

Midnight Diner

as Masao Toyama

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

2008

as Ebata Tatsuo

8.0

Time Limit Investigator

as 熊本

Nodame Cantabile

as Noda Tatsuo

The Private Detective Mike

2002

8.4

Crew (16)

Movies (12)

Don’t Look for Me

2025

Director

Don’t Look for Me

2025

Writer

峠の我が家

2024

Director

カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？

2023

Director

Then Summer Came

Director

Then Summer Came

Screenplay

Crickets

Screenplay

Sunday's Dream

Writer

Tokyo Fair Weather

1997

Screenplay

7.3

The Tomb & the Divorce

1993

Director

Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy

1989

Director

Hot staff: Kaikan sex kurinikku

1987

Screenplay

2.0

Television (4)

Time Limit Investigator

2006

Director

6.7

Time Limit Investigator

2006

Writer

6.7

The Private Detective Mike

2002

Director

8.4

The Private Detective Mike

2002

Writer

8.4