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Ryo Kase

Ryo Kase

5 films · 406 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20042023

Born 9 November 1974 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮 Kase Ryō) is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington, until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 406 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20042023

  • Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor2008

How their films are shot

Measured across 406 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ryo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Ryo takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night39%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural52%
Low key37%
High key8%

Shot size

Medium50%
Wide19%
Closeup16%
Fullbody10%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle10%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral57%
Tense24%
Ominous6%
Lonely6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 406 frames from Ryo Kase's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.