Daisuke Ryū

Daisuke Ryū

1957-02-14 – 2021-04-11 (age 64) Tokyo, Japan
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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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Ran
Ran

1985

as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Kagemusha
Kagemusha

1980

as Nobunaga Oda

Metropolis
Metropolis

2001

as Special Voice Appearance (voice)

Bayside Shakedown
Bayside Shakedown

1998

as Obayashi

Twelve Months
Twelve Months

1980

as Officer (voice)

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Fireflies in the North
Fireflies in the North

1984

as Nagakura

Time Trip App
Time Trip App

2014

as Toshizo Yamashita

Four Days of Snow and Blood
Four Days of Snow and Blood

1989

as Koji Muranaka

Graveyard of Honor
Graveyard of Honor

2002

as Tadaaki Kuze

Willful Murder
Willful Murder

1981

as Maruyama

Woman in Witness Protection
Woman in Witness Protection

1997

as Religious Cult Leader

Agitator
Agitator

2001

as Ichimatsu

Anticipation
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
The Empty Table
The Empty Table

1985

as Akira Sawaki

Lake of Illusions
Lake of Illusions

1982

as Nagao

Hunter in the Dark