Ryo Ishibashi

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Ryo Ishibashi born July 20 1956 is a Japanese actor and international celebrity He is known around the world for his roles in the classic Japanese Horror films Suicide Club and Audition He is also recognized in America for his role as Nakagawa in The Grudge and The Grudge 2 Ishibashi was born in Kurume Fukuoka Kyūshū Japan He started his career by starting his own band called the ARB Alexander Ragtime Band in 1977 The band made their debut in 1978 and made over a dozen albums until they broke up in 1990 Recently Ishibashi has resumed his musical activity and reformed ARB with an album Real Life in 1998 In 1986 Ishibashi made his movie debut in the film AHômansu in which ARBs 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 Japan and became an internationally recognized celebrity He won the award for Best Actor at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days Ishibashi has been married to Mieko Harada since 1987 and has three children Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryo Ishibashi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia