Actor
Daisuke Ryū
Born February 14, 1957 in Tokyo, JapanDied April 11, 202176 films
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).
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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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First watchRan19858.0as Saburo Naotora IchimonjiShakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.View filmEssential films
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76 films as actor- 2021Nobutora - Samurai TigerDensuke Tsuchiya
- 2019Tokyo Wine Party PeopleMakita
- 2019Anticipation
- 2019Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima RhapsodyKokuhei Kusunoki
- 2018I Will Never Forgive
- 2017Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
- 2017Solitary Scream
- 2015Gassoh
- 2014Time Trip AppToshizo Yamashita
- 2014Tangerines on CatShoichiro
- 2012Joshi Camera
- 2012The Last MessageBando
- 2010You Dance with the SummerShintaro Teramoto
- 2010A Lone ScalpelTatematsu Detective
- 2009Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
- 2009Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
- 2009Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
- 2007Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God HatedKatsuie Shibata
- 2006Baian Fujieda the Assassin
- 2004Ultraman: The NextKazusa Sogabe
- 2004The King of Minami: Special Ver.50Domoto
- 2003Another Battle/Conspiracy
- 2003Semi: Nakanai Semi
- 2002Shura Group Part 2
- 2002Nezulla the Rat MonsterAso
- 2002Yakuza Jihad
- 2002Yakuza Jihad 2
- 2002Yakuza Jihad 3
- 2002Graveyard of HonorTadaaki Kuze
- 2002The Great Jailbreak
- 2002Shura Group Part 3
- 2001The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
- 2001AgitatorIchimatsu
- 2001Gojoe: Spirit War ChronicleBenkei
- 2001MetropolisSpecial Voice Appearance (voice)
- 1999Zero Woman ReturnsMutoh
- 1999Wild CriminalCasino Customer #1
- 1999Chaka 2
- 1999Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
- 1998Bayside ShakedownObayashi
- 1998Scorpion: Double Venom 2
- 1998Abare Bunya
- 1998Another XX: Matori Woman
- 1998Zero Woman: Dangerous GameMutoh
- 1997Zero Woman: The HuntedMutoh
- 1997Guard Dog
- 1997Woman in Witness ProtectionReligious Cult Leader
- 1997The Mamushi
- 1996Legend of the Devil
- 1996Black Jack 3: Black Mirror ImageBlack Jack
- 1996Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love YouBlack Jack
- 1996Black JackBlack Jack
- 1995Mitabi no kaikyô
- 1995The Tale of Himeji Castle
- 1995Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru IncidentObayashi
- 1993Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
- 1992SuccessionTadashi Senda
- 1989Four Days of Snow and BloodKoji Muranaka
- 1987Trinacria: Porsche 959
- 1987The Orphaned GeishaYuuki Shinichiro
- 1987TaikokiAzai Nagamasa
- 1986Atami Murder CaseSon of Onijima
- 1985The Empty TableAkira Sawaki
- 1985RanSaburo Naotora Ichimonji
- 1985国東物語
- 1984Fireflies in the NorthNagakura
- 1984Legend of the Assassin
- 1983Shadow Hunters
- 1982The Legend of SayoTakeo
- 1982Lake of IllusionsNagao
- 1982The Law of HellSadashichi
- 1981Willful MurderMaruyama
- 1980KagemushaNobunaga Oda
- 1980Twelve MonthsOfficer (voice)
- 1979Hunter in the Dark
- 1978Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron