# Ryo Ishibashi

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Japanese actor (born 1956)

Ryo Ishibashi Ryo Ishibashi Born Hideki Ishibashi (1956-07-20) July 20, 1956 (age 69) Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan Occupations Actor, singer Years active 1978–present Spouse Mieko Harada ​ (m. 1987)​ Children 3, including Shizuka Ishibashi Musical career Genres Rock Label Invitation Member of ARB Musical artist Japanese name Kanji 石橋 凌 Hiragana いしばし りょう Alternative Japanese name Kanji 石橋 秀樹 Hiragana いしばし ひでき

**Ryo Ishibashi** (石橋 凌, *Ishibashi Ryō*; born **Hideki Ishibashi**; July 20, 1956) is a Japanese actor and singer. He is known internationally for his starring roles in the film horror films *[Audition](/source/Audition_(1999_film))* (1999), *[Suicide Club](/source/Suicide_Club_(film))* (2001), *[The Grudge](/source/The_Grudge)* (2004) and its sequel *[The Grudge 2](/source/The_Grudge_2)* (2006). He is also the lead singer of the Japanese rock band [ARB](/source/ARB_(band)).

## Life and career

Ishibashi was born in [Kurume](/source/Kurume%2C_Fukuoka), [Fukuoka Prefecture](/source/Fukuoka_Prefecture), [Japan](/source/Japan). He started his own band called the [ARB](/source/ARB_(band)) (Alexander Ragtime Band) in 1977. The band made their debut in 1978, and made over a dozen albums until they broke up in 1990. Ishibashi has subsequently resumed his musical activity and re-formed ARB with an album, *Real Life* in 1998.

In 1986, Ishibashi made his movie debut in the film *[A Homansu](/source/A_Homansu)*, directed by [Yusaku Matsuda](/source/Yusaku_Matsuda), in which ARB's 13th single "After 45" was used as its theme song. Ryo Ishibashi has been concentrating on his acting career, and has appeared in several movies outside his native country.

He won the award for Best Actor at the 11th [Yokohama Film Festival](/source/Yokohama_Film_Festival) for *[A Sign Days](/source/A_Sign_Days)*[1] and at the [5th Japan Film Professional Awards](/source/5th_Japan_Film_Professional_Awards) he took the Best Actor award for his role as a [yakuza](/source/Yakuza) hitman in *[Another Lonely Hitman](/source/Another_Lonely_Hitman)*.[2]

Ishibashi has been married to [Mieko Harada](/source/Mieko_Harada) since 1987 and has three children, including actress [Shizuka Ishibashi](/source/Shizuka_Ishibashi)

## Filmography

### Films

- *[A Homansu](/source/A_Homansu)* (1986)

- *[Leave My Girl Alone](/source/Leave_My_Girl_Alone)* (1986)

- *[A Sign Days](/source/A_Sign_Days)* (1989)

- *[American Yakuza](/source/American_Yakuza)* (1993)

- *[Blue Tiger](/source/Blue_Tiger_(film))* (1994)

- *Natural Woman* (1994)

- *[Another Lonely Hitman](/source/Another_Lonely_Hitman)* (1995)

- *[Back to Back](/source/Back_to_Back_(1996_film))* (1996)

- *[Kids Return](/source/Kids_Return)* (1996)

- *[Audition](/source/Audition_(1999_film))* (1999)

- *[Brother](/source/Brother_(2000_film))* (2000)

- *[Suicide Club](/source/Suicide_Club_(film))* (2002)

- *[Moon Child](/source/Moon_Child_(2003_film))* (2003)

- *[The Grudge](/source/The_Grudge)* (2004)

- *[The Grudge 2](/source/The_Grudge_2)* (2006)

- *[Shamo](/source/Shamo_(film))* (2007)

- *[War](/source/War_(2007_film))* (2007) – Shiro Yanagawa

- *[Ace Attorney](/source/Ace_Attorney_(film))* (2012) – Karuma Gō / Manfred von Karma

- *[Persona Non Grata](/source/Persona_Non_Grata_(2015_film))* (2015) – Chūichi Ōhashi

- *[Masquerade Hotel](/source/Masquerade_Hotel)* (2019) – Fujiki

- *Dancing Mary* (2020)

- *The Cinderella Addiction* (2021) – Masaaki Fukuura

- *[Masquerade Night](/source/Masquerade_Night)* (2021) – Fujiki[3]

- *Parasite in Love* (2021) – Urizane[4]

- *Yukiko a.k.a* (2025) – Kazuhiko Yoshimura[5]

### Television

- *[Takeda Shingen](/source/Takeda_Shingen_(TV_series))* (1988) – [Oda Nobunaga](/source/Oda_Nobunaga)[6]

- *[Nemureru Mori](/source/Nemureru_Mori)* (1998) – Detective Onda

- *[Ryōmaden](/source/Ry%C5%8Dmaden)* (2010) – Asahina Masahiro[7]

- *Man of Destiny* (2012) – Takashi Anzai

- *Mikaiketsu Jiken: File. 05* (2016) – [Kakuei Tanaka](/source/Kakuei_Tanaka)

- *Smoking* (2018) – Uncle Sabe

- *[The Naked Director](/source/The_Naked_Director)* (2019) – Ikezawa

- *[Awaiting Kirin](/source/Awaiting_Kirin)* (2020) – [Takeda Shingen](/source/Takeda_Shingen)[6]

- *[Modern Love Tokyo](/source/Modern_Love_Tokyo)* (2022) – Kōsuke Hayami[8]

### Video games

- *[Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties](/source/Yakuza_Kiwami_3_%26_Dark_Ties)* (2026) - Shigeru Nakahara

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [第１１回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８９年日本映画個人賞](http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/11-1989/11_1989_shou.html) (in Japanese). [Yokohama Film Festival](/source/Yokohama_Film_Festival). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160913213342/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/11-1989/11_1989_shou.html) from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2010-04-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["日本映画プロフェッショナル大賞1995年・第5回"](https://www.allcinema.net/prog/awardmain.php?num_a=782) [The 5th Japan Film Professional Awards in 1995]. *allcinema* (in Japanese). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150606230636/http://www.allcinema.net/prog/awardmain.php?num_a=782) from the original on 2015-06-06. Retrieved 2015-05-03.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["木村拓哉と長澤まさみが再びバディに「マスカレード・ナイト」特報＆ポスター解禁"](https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/426389). *Natalie*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210428235159/https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/426389) from the original on April 28, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["恋する寄生虫"](https://eiga.com/movie/92912/). *eiga.com*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160628/https://eiga.com/movie/92912/) from the original on October 25, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["雪子 a.k.a."](https://eiga.com/movie/102622/) *eiga.com*. Retrieved 2 October 2024.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Shingen_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Shingen_6-1) ["麒麟がくる:明日"甲斐の虎"武田信玄が初登場 1988年「武田信玄」で信長役の石橋凌「何の因果」？"](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20201128dog00m200008000c.html). *Mantan-web*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210720062817/https://mantan-web.jp/article/20201128dog00m200008000c.html) from the original on July 20, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["龍馬伝"](https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/10-taiga.html). *Haiyaku Jiten* (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 September 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["榮倉奈々、前田敦子ら『モダンラブ・東京』出演 黒木華、窪田正孝は声優として参加"](https://www.crank-in.net/news/111533/1). *Crank-in!*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220727092356/https://www.crank-in.net/news/111533/1) from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.

## External links

- [Ryo Ishibashi](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410903/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Ryo Ishibashi Official Website (actor)](https://web.archive.org/web/20150425043516/http://apache2001.co.jp/artist/ishibashi_ryo/index.html)

- [Ryo Ishiabshi Official Website (singer)](http://avexnet.or.jp/ishibashiryo/)

Awards for Ryo Ishibashi v t e Yokohama Film Festival Award for Best Actor Ken Ogata (1980) Masato Furuoya (1981) Toshiyuki Nagashima (1982) Ryudo Uzaki (1983) Yūsaku Matsuda (1984) Takeshi Kaga (1985) Minori Terada (1986) Koichi Iwaki (1987) Saburō Tokitō (1988) Hiroyuki Sanada (1989) Ryo Ishibashi (1990) Masato Furuoya (1991) Hidekazu Akai (1992) Masahiro Motoki (1993) Hiroyuki Sanada (1994) Eiji Okuda (1995) Etsushi Toyokawa (1996) Koji Yakusho / Tadanobu Asano (1997) Yoshio Harada (1998) Kiichi Nakai / Claude Maki (1999) Ken Takakura (2000) Tadanobu Asano (2001) Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) Kyōzō Nagatsuka / Seiichi Tanabe (2003) Satoshi Tsumabuki (2004) Koji Yakusho (2005) Joe Odagiri (2006) Teruyuki Kagawa (2007) Ryo Kase (2008) Kaoru Kobayashi (2009) Masato Sakai (2010) Etsushi Toyokawa (2011) Eita (2012) Hiroshi Abe (2013) Masaharu Fukuyama (2014) Go Ayano (2015) Kiyohiko Shibukawa / Masatoshi Nagase (2016) Tomokazu Miura / Yuya Yagira (2017) Sosuke Ikematsu (2018) Masahiro Higashide / Koji Yakusho (2019) Sosuke Ikematsu (2020) Kazunari Ninomiya (2021) Arata Furuta / Tori Matsuzaka (2022) Kōji Seto (2023) Ryohei Suzuki (2024) Taiga Nakano / Koji Yakusho (2025) Ryo Yoshizawa / Ryusei Yokohama (2026) v t e Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor Hideji Ōtaki (1976) Takeshi Katō (1977) Tsunehiko Watase (1978) Rentarō Mikuni (1979) Tsutomu Yamazaki (1980) Katsuo Nakamura (1981) Akira Emoto (1982) Juzo Itami (1983) Kaku Takashina (1984) Tomokazu Miura (1985) Kei Suma (1986) Masahiko Tsugawa (1987) Tsurutaro Kataoka (1988) Yoshio Harada (1989) Renji Ishibashi (1990) Hiroshi Kanbe (1991) Takehiro Murata (1992) Ittoku Kishibe (1993) Kiichi Nakai (1994) Etsushi Toyokawa (1995) Tetsuya Watari (1996) Masahiko Nishimura (1997) Ren Osugi (1998) Kippei Shiina (1999) Tadanobu Asano (2000) Tsutomu Yamazaki (2001) Ryo Ishibashi (2002) Hiroyuki Miyasako (2003) Yoshio Harada (2004) Shinichi Tsutsumi (2005) Teruyuki Kagawa (2006) Shirō Itō (2007) Masato Sakai (2008) Eita (2009) Akira Emoto (2010) Denden (2011) Mirai Moriyama (2012) Pierre Taki (2013) Masahiko Tsugawa (2014) Masahiro Motoki (2015) Go Ayano (2016) Koji Yakusho (2017) Kazunari Ninomiya (2018) Ryo Narita (2019) Gen Hoshino (2020) Ryohei Suzuki (2021) Ryusei Yokohama (2022) Hayato Isomura (2023) Eiji Okuda (2024) Jiro Sato (2025) v t e Yokohama Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor Keizō Kanie (1980) Morio Kazama (1981) Renji Ishibashi (1982) Mitsuru Hirata (1983) Juzo Itami (1984) Kaku Takashina (1985) Tomokazu Miura (1986) Kaoru Kobayashi (1987) Sabu Kawahara (1988) Tsurutaro Kataoka (1989) Yoshio Harada (1990) Keizō Kanie (1991) Koji Matoba (1992) Hideo Murota (1993) Masato Hagiwara (1994) Kōichi Satō (1995) Kazuhiko Kanayama (1996) Ryo Ishibashi (1997) Masahiko Nishimura / Isao Bitoh (1998) Ren Osugi (1999) Kazuki Kitamura (2000) Teruyuki Kagawa / Jun Murakami (2001) Tsutomu Yamazaki (2002) Shinya Tsukamoto (2003) Nao Ōmori (2004) Akira Emoto (2005) Ittoku Kishibe (2006) Takashi Sasano (2007) Masatoshi Nagase (2008) Hidetoshi Nishijima (2009) Yoshinori Okada / Yutaka Matsushige (2010) Renji Ishibashi (2011) Denden (2012) Takayuki Yamada (2013) Lily Franky (2014) Sosuke Ikematsu (2015) Ken Mitsuishi (2016) Masaki Suda (2017) Sansei Shiomi / Tori Matsuzaka (2018) Tori Matsuzaka (2019) Ryo Narita (2020) Shōhei Uno / Naoto Ogata (2021) Ryohei Suzuki (2022) Hayato Isomura / Tasuku Emoto (2023) Hayato Isomura / Kōichi Satō (2024) Sosuke Ikematsu (2025) Min Tanaka (2026)

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