Daisuke Ryū

Actor

1957-02-14 – 2021-04-11 · Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Ryu was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan on 14 February 1957. He won the Japanese "best new actor" Blue ribbon award for his performance as the legendary warrior Oda Nobunaga in Akira Kurosawa's movie Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior). Other notable performances include Saburo Ichimonji in the famous Kurosawa epic Ran and the legendary warrior monk Benkei in Sogo Ishii's critically acclaimed Gojoe (Gojō reisenki or The Spirit war chronicle).

He starred opposite Samantha Bond in the 1989 television serial The Ginger Tree, where he played Count Kentaro Kurihama. Based on the novel by Oswald Wynd, set in Japan at the turn of the century, it spans the period 1903 to the outbreak of the Second World War.

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• Ran (1985) — Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
• Kagemusha (1980) — Nobunaga Oda
• Metropolis (2001) — Special Voice Appearance (voice)
• Graveyard of Honor (2002) — Tadaaki Kuze
• Agitator (2001) — Ichimatsu
• Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2001) — Benkei
• Bayside Shakedown (1998) — Obayashi
• Zero Woman Returns (1999) — Mutoh
• Ultraman: The Next (2004) — Kazusa Sogabe
• Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)
• Twelve Months (1980) — Officer (voice)
• Hunter in the Dark (1979)
• Woman in Witness Protection (1997) — Religious Cult Leader
• Time Trip App (2014) — Toshizo Yamashita
• Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) — Koji Muranaka
• Gassoh (2015)
• Zero Woman: The Hunted (1997) — Mutoh
• Fireflies in the North (1984) — Nagakura
• The Empty Table (1985) — Akira Sawaki
• A Lone Scalpel (2010) — Tatematsu Detective
• Scorpion: Double Venom 2 (1998)
• Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998) — Mutoh
• Lake of Illusions (1982) — Nagao
• The Legend of Sayo (1982) — Takeo