Ryo Iwamatsu

Acting · Directing · Writing · Creator

Born March 26, 1952, Kawatana, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Playwright, stage director, actor, and film director.

Filmography

• Political Lupin — Daiji Kazamatsuri
• Sins of Kujo — Yuzo Yamashiro
• The Light We Cast — Kashida Atsushi
• 2025Diamonds in the Sand — Kawase
• 2025Don’t Look for Me — Director, Writer
• Mars: Zero's Revolution — Komiyama Shigeru
• The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary — Araki Kohei
• 2024Tokyo Cowboy — President Miwa
• 2024Wakamusha
• 2024峠の我が家 — Director, Writer
• A Town Without Seasons — Kyota
• M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン！」 — Creator
• 2023Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition
• Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition
• 2023カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？ — Writer, Director
• 2022Convenience Story
• He's Expecting
• Ningen Kowai
• Renovation Like Magic
• 2022Sabakan — Uchida
• 2022Shin Ultraman — Hajime Komuro
• 2022Solitary Gourmet New Year’s Eve Special ~Crab Errand Sure is Tough~ — Kobayashi Hiroshi
• 2022What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? — Bokudo Ioroi
• 2021A Family — Kazuhiko Osako
• 2021Every Trick In The Book
• How to be Likable in a Crisis
• 2021In the Wake — Narazaki
• 2021Inubu: The Dog Club — Genjiro Amuro
• My Dear Exes — Osuke Omameda
• 2021Remain In Twilight
• THE LIMIT — 斉藤学
• 2021We Made a Beautiful Bouquet — Yoshiaki Hachiya
• 2020Step
• ‎Lesson of the Evil: Prologue — Nadamori Masao
• 劇場の灯を消すな！本多劇場編
• 2019Aging Police / Resurrection Special
• 2018Black Dahlia
• 2018LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp! — Muryo Record Company CEO
• 2018The Cat in Their Arms — old cat
• 2017Goodbye, Grandpa! — Akio Haruno
• 2017Joryu Tohaiden Aki — Takeo Kojima
• 2017Laughing Lucky Cats — Joji Iwakura
• Love and Hongkong — Nari Katagiri
• 2017March Comes In Like a Lion — Takanori Jinguji
• 2017March Goes out Like a Lamb — Takanori Jinguji
• 2017Memoirs of a Murderer — Akihiro Yamagata
• 2017Tokyo Ghoul — Akihiro Kano
• 2017吹く風は秋
• Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~
• Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama? — [Principal]
• A Fading Summer — Shuhei Inoue
• Napoleon's Village — Fumio Kita
• 2015Pieta in the Toilet — Hiroshi's Father
• 2015The Man of the Political Economy
• Gu Gu the Cat — Hideo Tachibana
• Hanako & Anne — Urushibara Mitsuma
• The Long Goodbye — Zaizen
• The Next Generation: Patlabor
• 2014The Vancouver Asahi — Tadakura Miyake
• 2013It's Me It's Me — Detective Murano
• 2013Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
• Neo Ultra Q — Professor Fukuda
• 2013Pecoross' Mother and Her Days — Yuichi Okano
• 2013The Apology King — Film director
• 2013The Complex
• 2012Lesson of the Evil — Masao Nadamori
• 2012Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
• 2012The Last Days of the World
• The Locked Room Murders — Togashi Kotatsu
• Tokkan — Hajime Mayosato
• 2011A Man with Style
• CSI: Crime Scene Talks
• 2011Crossroads
• Dōki
• 2011Early Autumn
• 2011Guilty of Romance — Supermarket Manager
• Madame Butterfly — 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」
• 20108000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
• Atami's Police Investigators — Tokusaburo Sagami
• Azamijô no lullaby
• 2010Sawako Decides — Nobuo
• 2010The Days of Morisaki Bookstore — Sabu
• 2009Air Doll — Video Shop Owner
• 2009Dear Doctor — Yoshifumi Okayasu
• 2009Instant Swamp — Kamesaka
• Midnight Diner — Masao Toyama
• 2009Yamagata Scream — Chomei Okagaitokon
• Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow — Ebata Tatsuo
• 2008Love Exposure — President
• 2008Then Summer Came — Director, Screenplay
• 2007Adrift in Tokyo — Kunimatsu
• 2007Invisible War — Tajiri
• 2007The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia — Gang Boss
• 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad — Editor on the phone (voice)
• 2006A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
• 2006Crickets — Screenplay
• 2006Damejin — Numa-san
• 2006Faces of a Fig Tree
• Nodame Cantabile — Noda Tatsuo
• Time Limit Investigator — 熊本, Writer, Director
• 2005In the Pool — General Manager Maenishi
• 2005Into a Dream — Machida
• 2005Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers — Shizuo Kugitani
• 2005Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims — Foreman
• 2004Cutie Honey — Goki
• 2004Zebraman — Kanda
• 2003Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series — Ani (2033)
• 2003TRUNK
• 2003横山秀夫サスペンス「第三の時効」
• The Private Detective Mike — Director, Writer
• 2002横山秀夫サスペンス「沈黙のアリバイ」
• 2001Hush! — Gynecologist
• 2001Quartet for Two — Taxi driver
• 2000The Last Day
• 1999Sunday's Dream — Writer
• 1998Dog Race — Asano
• 1998MIND GAME
• 1998Samurai Fiction — Muroto
• 1997Tokyo Fair Weather — Screenplay
• 1995Gonin — Man at the Toilet
• 1995MARKS — Director Takeuchi
• 1994119 — Member of Main Station
• 1994Turning Point
• 1993A Night in Nude — Shimura
• 1993Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
• 1993Sky Cannot Be This Blue — Banker
• 1993The Tomb & the Divorce — Director
• 1992A Canned Crab
• 1992Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki
• 1992Original Sin
• 1992The Hit-and-Run Family
• 1991Bakayarō! 4 You! — (segment "カラダだけの男")
• 1989Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy — Director
• 1989Beijing Watermelon — Policeman
• 1988Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You — Tokyo Shoji Employee
• 1987Hot staff: Kaikan sex kurinikku — Screenplay