Daisuke Ryū
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-14
Day of Death
2021-04-11 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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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Acting
(2021)
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
as Densuke Tsuchiya
(2019)
(2019)
Tokyo Wine Party People
as Makita
(2019)
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
as Kokuhei Kusunoki
(2018)
(2017)
(2017)
(2015)
(2014)
Time Trip App
as Toshizo Yamashita
(2014)
Tangerines on Cat
as Shoichiro
(2012)
The Last Message
as Bando
(2012)
(2010)
A Lone Scalpel
as Tatematsu Detective
(2010)
You Dance with the Summer
as Shintaro Teramoto
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2007)
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
as Katsuie Shibata
(2006)
(2004)
Ultraman: The Next
as Kazusa Sogabe
(2003)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
Graveyard of Honor
as Tadaaki Kuze
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2001)
Metropolis
as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
(2001)
Agitator
as Ichimatsu
(2001)
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
as Benkei
(2001)
(1999)
Zero Woman Returns
as Mutoh
(1999)
Wild Criminal
as Casino Customer #1
(1999)
(1998)
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
as Mutoh
(1998)
Bayside Shakedown
as Obayashi
(1998)
(1998)
(1998)
(1997)
Woman in Witness Protection
as Religious Cult Leader
(1997)
Zero Woman: The Hunted
as Mutoh
(1997)
(1997)
(1996)
Black Jack
as Black Jack
(1996)
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
as Black Jack
(1996)
(1996)
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
as Black Jack
(1995)
(1995)
(1995)
(1993)
(1992)
Succession
as Tadashi Senda
(1989)
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Koji Muranaka
(1987)
The Orphaned Geisha
as Yuuki Shinichiro
(1986)
Atami Murder Case
as Son of Onijima
(1985)
Ran
as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
(1985)
The Empty Table
as Akira Sawaki
(1984)
Fireflies in the North
as Nagakura
(1984)
(1983)
(1982)
(1982)
Lake of Illusions
as Nagao
(1982)
(1981)
Willful Murder
as Maruyama
(1980)
Kagemusha
as Nobunaga Oda
(1980)
Twelve Months
as Officer
(1979)
(1978)