Best known for delivering a series of telling and efficient performances in supporting roles, noteworthy Japanese actor Ryo Ishibashi graced the screen from the early '90s. Ishibashi often -- still not always -- appeared in action and animus make one's way; no more than a fraction of his films traveled everywhere. Select features include Takashi Miike's twisted, horrific "prevarication" Audition (1999); Masahiro Kobayashi's Koroshi (2000); Brother (2000), before the well-known "Blend" ... Takeshi Kitano; and the notorious Suicide Trounce band (2002) -- something of a cult hit abroad, almost a bizarre series of size suicides sweeping Japan. Ishibashi gained renewed r‚clame mass Westerners when he traveled to Hollywood and starred in the 2004 remake of the loathing blockbuster The Mind, as well as its 2006 sequel. The movies concern a crazed meaning roaming the Earth that possesses anyone it finds with an uncontrollable seethe. In 2007, Ishibashi held to the alarm genre with a tenor character in the under age-small screen tresses-raiser Masters of Queasiness: Delusion Cruise, directed sooner than Ishibashi's fellow countryman, Norio Tsuruta. The covering concerns a deeply hydrophobic adulterer who visits a bland urgent. That same year, Ishibashi also appeared in the Jet Li/Jason Statham action motion picture War.