Ryo Kase Movies

Letters from Iwo Jima

79/100

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Restless

68/100

The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.

Outrage

68/100

The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.

Like Someone in Love

70/100

In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.

Tokio!

71/100

A cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories.

The Sky Crawlers

68/100

A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds.

Beyond Outrage

68/100

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.

I Just Didn't Do It

77/100

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

Glasses

72/100

Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.

Honey & Clover

66/100

The lives of four art students change forever when gifted young artist Hagumi arrives at their school and befriends their group as each student experiences turbulence in love.

Hill of Freedom

69/100

Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology - and so must we?

10 Promises to My Dog

72/100

A teenage girl adopts a homeless puppy and names it "Socks". They take care of each others since then, until one day when she is thinking Socks to be smaller than she thought it used be...

Insutanto numa

71/100

A quirky young woman who loves antiques embarks on risky adventures and business endeavors with her eccentric friends...

About Her Brother

72/100

Ginko seems to be living the good life: She's the respectable owner of a neighborhood drug store in Tokyo...

Tokyo Rendezvous

17/100

Scrap Heaven

70/100

The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.

It's Me, It's Me

60/100

The world is full of me.

Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

71/100

Yuuichi Okano is a baby boomer born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. His bald-head looks like a pecoross, a small onion. His Mother, Mitsue has dementia that began soon after her husband, ... See full summary »

Sketches of Kaitan City

71/100

In the city of Kaitan, during the winter, the local shipyard is downsized and workers are laid off....

Gekijouban SPEC: Kurôzu - Zen no hen

59/100

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

70/100

As a young man, Keisuke Kinoshita (Ryo Kase) carried his mother on a handcart across a mountain. He grew up as a hotblooded young man and was monitored by the military. He then joined ... See full summary »

Gekijouban SPEC: Kurôzu - Kou no hen

61/100

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

SPEC: Zero

66/100

Tokyo Oasis

62/100

The floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves...

The Passenger

64/100