Ryushi Mizukami

Acting

Ryushi Mizukami

Born December 26, 1964 · Toyama Prefecture, Japan (age 61)

Ryushi Mizukami, born December 26, 1964 is a Japanese actor and screenwriter hailing from Toyama Prefecture. He is affiliated with Toei Management and possesses a unique set of skills, including horseback riding and choreography. Mizukami's journey in the entertainment industry began with his involvement in situation theaters before participating in small theater productions and other producer-le…

Known For

Tetsujin 28: The MovieTetsujin 28: The Movie · 2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
6.02005
MovieActionAdventure
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
Dead or AliveDead or Alive · 1999
Dead or Alive
6.41999
MovieActionThriller
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Ring 0Ring 0 · 2000
Ring 0
6.12000
MovieHorrorThriller
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Swallowtail ButterflySwallowtail Butterfly · 1996
Swallowtail Butterfly
7.51996
MovieDramaCrime
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1 · 1998
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1
4.51998
MovieAction
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and “The 7 Spears”, the band of soldiers he commands. Trained assassins and skilled in sorcery, these men took over the Aizu prefecture and took its most beautiful young women as concubines. They left behind 7 daughters now seeking out Jyubei Yagyuu to help get revenge.
Jubaku: SpellboundJubaku: Spellbound · 1999
Jubaku: Spellbound
6.21999
MovieDrama
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.
Ley LinesLey Lines · 1999
Ley Lines
6.41999
MovieDramaThriller
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
The City of Lost SoulsThe City of Lost Souls · 2000
The City of Lost Souls
6.22000
MovieActionCrime
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.

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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the ButterflyGolden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly · 2009
Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
2009
MovieDrama
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.

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