---
name: "Ryo Sugimoto"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ryo-sugimoto"
fi1m_id: "ryo-sugimoto"
imdb_id: "nm2024072"
tmdb_id: 111231
wikidata_id: "Q17388698"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T19:13:39.173855+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ryo Sugimoto

## Identity

Ryo Sugimoto

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ryo-sugimoto
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ryo-sugimoto
- **IMDb ID:** nm2024072
- **TMDB ID:** 111231
- **Wikidata ID:** Q17388698
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Sugimoto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17388698, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2024072/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111231

Production designer. Born 1 January 1976 in Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, Japan
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Also known as:** Ryō Sugimoto, Ryou Sugimoto
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Sugimoto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17388698, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2024072/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111231

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Exit 8*](https://film.one/film/exit-8.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ryo Sugimoto is a Japanese production designer and art director. Born in 1976, he apprenticed under production designers Yohei Taneda and Mitsuo Harada as an art assistant in 1997. He made his debut as a production designer on the 2007 film *Chameleon*.

Sugimoto has worked on films including assistant art director on *Lost in Translation* (2003), art director on *Silk* (2006) and *Babel* (2006), and production designer on *Map of the Sounds of Tokyo* (2009), *Unforgiven* (2013), *We Made a Beautiful Bouquet* (2021), *Character* (2021) and *Exit 8* (2025). He received the Excellence in Art Direction Award at the Japan Academy Film Awards for *Villain* (2010) and *Unforgiven* (2013), both directed by Lee Sang-il. He is representative director and president of ROJI Co., Ltd.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, scifijapan.com, jfdb.jp.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Exit 8* (2025), Fi1m 72, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/exit-8.md)
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Suzuki=Bakudan* (2025), Production Design
- *Climbing for Life* (2025), Production Design
- *Exit 8* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/exit-8.md)
- *1st Kiss* (2025), Production Design
- *Penalty Loop* (2024), Production Design
- *A Hundred Flowers* (2022), Production Design
- *Character* (2021), Production Design
- *We Made a Beautiful Bouquet* (2021), Production Design
- *The Town of Headcounts* (2020), Production Design
- *Beneath the Shadow* (2019), Production Design
- *After the Rain* (2018), Production Design
- *Amy Said* (2017), Production Design
- *Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High* (2017), Production Design
- *The Blue Hearts* (2017), Production Design
- *Haruta & Chika* (2017), Production Design
- *If Cats Disappeared from the World* (2016), Production Design
- *Siren* (2015), series, Art Designer
- *Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic* (2014), Production Design
- *A Bolt from the Blue* (2014), Production Design
- *Unforgiven* (2013), Art Designer, Production Design
- *Starman: A Love Story* (2013), series, Art Designer
- *Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man* (2012), Production Design
- *Monsters Club* (2011), Production Design
- *Tada's Do-It-All House* (2011), Set Designer
- *Villain* (2010), as Art Direction
- *A Crowd of Three* (2010), Production Design
- *Map of the Sounds of Tokyo* (2009), Production Design
- *Midnight Diner* (2009), series, Production Design
- *Bare Essence of Life* (2009), Production Design
- *Children of the Dark* (2008), Assistant Art Director
- *Chameleon* (2008), Production Design
- *Double Trouble* (2008), Set Designer
- *Silk* (2006), as Art Direction
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)

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