Daisuke Ryū
Biography
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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Full filmography
- The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)
- Ran (1985) as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
- Toge no Gunzo (1982)
- Kagemusha (1980) as Nobunaga Oda
- Metropolis (2001) as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
- Rinjo (2009) as Haruhisa Nabdo
- Fireflies in the North (1984) as Nagakura
- Anticipation (2019)
- Onna Furin Kazan (1986)
- Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998) as Mutoh
- The Ginger Tree (1989) as Count Kentaro Kurihama
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)
- Musashibo Benkei (1986) as Taira no Tomomori
- Bayside Shakedown (1998) as Obayashi
- Koya Choken-bou oboegaki (1993)
- Ultraman: The Next (2004) as Kazusa Sogabe
- Succession (1992) as Tadashi Senda
- Wild Criminal (1999) as Casino Customer #1
- Agitator (2001) as Ichimatsu
- Lake of Illusions (1982) as Nagao
- Woman in Witness Protection (1997) as Religious Cult Leader
- Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) as Koji Muranaka
- Zero Woman Returns (1999) as Mutoh
- Time Trip App (2014) as Toshizo Yamashita