Ryushi Mizukami

Acting

Ryushi Mizukami

Born 1964-12-26 · Toyama Prefecture, Japan

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-led performances. Subsequently, he made his mark in the realms of film and television, establishing himself as a versatile actor. Additionally, he pursued a career as a screenwriter, crafting scripts for plays, movies, and V-cinema projects. His talents are diverse, exemplified by his recognition with the Special Jury Prize at the Yokohama Film Festival for the movie "SCORE" in 1995 and the Excellence Award at the 1998 Japan TV Scenario "Toryumon" contest. Beyond his roles on screen, Mizukami is a dedicated educator. He serves as a professor in the Film Department at Kyoto University of Art and Design, contributing to the development of young talents. His wealth of experience and knowledge is being passed on to the next generation of filmmakers, shaping the future of the industry.

Acting credits

Tetsujin 28: The Movie poster
6.0

One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.

Tetsujin 28: The Movie

2005

Dead or Alive poster
6.4

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.

Dead or Alive

1999

Ring 0 poster
6.1

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.

Ring 0

2000

Swallowtail Butterfly poster
7.5

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Swallowtail Butterfly

1996

Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1 poster
4.5

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.

Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1

1998

Jubaku: Spellbound poster
6.2

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.

Jubaku: Spellbound

1999

Ley Lines poster
6.4

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.

Ley Lines

1999

The City of Lost Souls poster
6.2

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.

The City of Lost Souls

2000

Getting Any? poster
5.7

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Getting Any?

1995

Ring poster
6.2

In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?

Ring

1995

A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo poster
7.0

A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.

A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo

1998

Confessions of a Dog poster
6.3

Takeda is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he’s promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile, renegade investigator Kusama must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police.

Confessions of a Dog

2006

Endless Waltz poster
5.0

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

Endless Waltz

1995

Alive poster
5.8

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.

Alive

2003

A Haunted School poster
6.7

Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in the photography club darkroom, high school sophomore Yuri borrows a mysterious horror manga from her elusive but studious senior, Miwako.

A Haunted School

1996

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE poster
2.0

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE

1996

Yagyu Clan Conspiracy poster
NR

Hidetada Tokugawa died suddenly and the death of the Shogun upset the Tokugawa system, and was concealed by a part of the Oku-cho. To top it off, Hidetada's successor had not yet been determined. Originally, there should be no objection that the legitimate son, Iemitsu, succeeds as the third shogun. But a gap was beginning to grow between the Tokugawa Shogunate andToshikatsu Doi. Doi, who scrutinizes the cause of the general's death, stealthily examines Hidetada's stomach, but is suddenly caught by someone who appears. It was nne other than Shogun Yasunari, a shogun swordsman. His autopsy reveals that Hidetada's death was due to arsenic.

Yagyu Clan Conspiracy

2020

Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako poster
NR

Misaki is a popular bar hostess whose policy is to 'live on presents'. She is haughty and wants nothing but the most expensive and exclusive. One night, she finds a rabbit and takes it home, setting off the story of an unimaginable tragedy. It is an 'animal panic horror' film with a new edge presenting an allegory of the worst in the modern materialistic world. This is the first full-length feature film for Yuichi Kanemaru, who has worked as assistant director to Kaneto Shindo, Yasuo Furuhata and Takashi Miike. And Tomoko Tabata's dynamic performance in her first horror movie is a definite highlight.

Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako

2008

The Millennial Rapture poster
4.0

Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in “Roji” who struggled to live with the blood of the Nakamato Clan, blood called “noble yet unholy.” Oryu, a midwife, has watched all those men growing up, living and dying... She is now aging old and starts to talk with the dead men souls of the Nakamoto Clan...

The Millennial Rapture

2012

Organized Crime Investigative Task Force 5: Annihilation of Tokyo!? poster
NR

Sakuma, who was supposed to be dead, is alive. This brings the terror case to a sudden development. Kumada continues his investigation and tries to find a solution with the help of Kajiyama of the Kinugawa gang. Meanwhile, at the task force, a surprising relationship between the perpetrators and the police comes to light during the identity investigation.

Organized Crime Investigative Task Force 5: Annihilation of Tokyo!?

2006

Tokarev poster
6.7

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

Tokarev

1994

Taro the Fool poster
NR

Tarō is a vagabond, a wannabe, an urchin, and not what anyone would call mainstream. He does not care. Do not even ask him about his background or age. He would not know and he would not bother. The man meets two others and he begins to experience a new set of conditions.

Taro the Fool

2019

Cursed Beauties: Ghost Stories of Evil Spirits poster
10.0

An original omnibus horror film from the duo of Norio Tsuruta and Chiaki Konaka, depicting the terror of evil spirits that haunt four beautiful women. The film contains five episodes, including "Makeup for the Dead," in which a woman who did the makeup for a dead woman is cursed.

Cursed Beauties: Ghost Stories of Evil Spirits

1996

KISS ME poster
NR

A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together.

KISS ME

1996

Behind the camera

New Shadow Warriors V: Hattori Hanzo vs Onmyoji poster
NR

In order to save the daughter of Kuroiwa clan lord who was made ill by the curse of someone, Hattori Hanzo brings the shadow warriors.

New Shadow Warriors V: Hattori Hanzo vs Onmyoji

2005

New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2 poster
7.0

Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory.

New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2

2004

New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter poster
NR

As the power of the Tokugawa Shogunate becomes firm, Hattori Hanzo struggles against Sarutobi Sasuke and Sanada Yukimura. At the same time, Sasuke and Yukimura are plotting a new trick with the Satsuma clan ....

New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter

2005

Girl's Life poster
NR

Rina Sakurai, a popular model of Koakuma Ageha, a hair and make-up magazine for gals, makes her actress debut. Abandoned by family and betrayed by her boyfriend, Haruka Ichinose comes to Tokyo with her pet turtle, Jimmy. With heaped up blonde hair, flashy fashion, beloved Jimmy, and no fixed address, she takes interviews. But she has no luck on job hunting and becomes a net cafe refugees. One day, she finds a flyer and she jumps into a cabaret. What kind of future is waiting for Haruka?

Girl's Life

2009

Tokyo Neo Mafia poster
NR

A drama presented by Jun Murakami. Shimon and Short Run, who started walking on the road of the yakuza in Tokyo, were waiting for Yabuki Ginya. Ginya, who grew up together in his hometown, stabbed a local yakuza and entered the juvenile training school because of Tsuruoka, who he admired as a man. He entrusts his sister Ryoko, who is the only relative, to his friends... In Kabukicho, Shinjuku, the men meet again, and the legend of the demons who nest on a sad night begins here!!

Tokyo Neo Mafia

2008

Kamihate Store poster
6.3

A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide.

Kamihate Store

2012

Shinigami no Yaiba poster
NR

Jiro Kanbara (Yasukaze Motomiya) is a washed-up low-level thug who has drifted into his mid-thirties without ever getting anywhere. One day, he is ordered by his boss (Tomorowo Taguchi) to assassinate Onijima (Hitoshi Ozawa), a key figure in a rival organization—and he carries out the hit. But the man he killed and buried suddenly appears before him again. It seems Jiro has been possessed. Onijima’s voice whispers in his ear, guiding his every move. As Jiro follows those instructions, his fortunes change dramatically—he rises rapidly in the yakuza world, gains status, attracts women, and begins living a life just like Onijima once did. However, such a life cannot last forever…

Shinigami no Yaiba

2010

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 6 - Trap of Fear poster
NR

The Japanese political and business world where Chimimoryō is in control. Ginji (Kiyoshi Nakajo), a man who won the fierce competition and built a huge fortune. A new enemy appeared in front of him. Former President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Kawai. He has requested the Japan Horse Racing Promotion Association for 30 billion election funds for the next presidential election. Ginji first brought in a young man named Ryohei, who has an outstanding memory, who remembers all the results of the 10-year race. In order to defeat Kawai, he uses his memory to make a trick.

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 6 - Trap of Fear

1997

Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf

2001

Dekotora Gaiden: A Man’s Life, a Road of Dreams poster
NR

Torajiro, a truck driver, worries and agonizes over the thought that Minami, his lover and a popular rock singer is an existence far beyond his reach and not a good match for him. Through various experiences such as fights, misfortunes, and encounters, he is changed. What, then, awaits Torajiro at the destination of his journey…?

Dekotora Gaiden: A Man’s Life, a Road of Dreams

2001

Empire of Dirty Money poster
NR

Gennosuke Nannushi (Hitoshi Ozawa) is a lone man who lands on the streets of Kabukicho to run a black-money business with his roots in the area. He starts a business with Kuro (Onimaru), a man he met on the street, but his game with Kawamoto (Shigemitsu Ogi), his former business rival, turns into a life-and-death war involving the yakuza...

Empire of Dirty Money

2007