Daisuke Ryū

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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Filmography (83 Appearances)

Nobutora - Samurai Tiger

2021

Tokyo Wine Party People

2019

Anticipation

2019

Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody

2019

I Will Never Forgive

2018

Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS

2017

Solitary Scream

2017

Gassoh

2015

Time Trip App

2014

Tangerines on Cat

2014

The Next Generation: Patlabor

2014

Joshi Camera

2012

The Last Message

2012

You Dance with the Summer

2010

A Lone Scalpel

2010

Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter

2009

Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2

2009

Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1

2009

Rinjo

2009

Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated

2007

Baian Fujieda the Assassin

2006

Ultraman: The Next

2004

The King of Minami: Special Ver.50

2004

Semi: Nakanai Semi

2003

Another Battle/Conspiracy

2003

Shura Group Part 2

2002

Nezulla the Rat Monster

2002

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'

2002

Yakuza Jihad 3

2002

Yakuza Jihad

2002

Yakuza Jihad 2

2002

Graveyard of Honor

2002

The Great Jailbreak

2002

Shura Group Part 3

2002

The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell

2001

Agitator

2001

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

2001

Metropolis

2001

Zero Woman Returns

1999

Wild Criminal

1999

Chaka 2

1999

Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3

1999

Bayside Shakedown

1998

Scorpion: Double Venom 2

1998

Abare Bunya

1998

Another XX: Matori Woman

1998

Zero Woman: Dangerous Game

1998

Zero Woman: The Hunted

1997

Guard Dog

1997

Woman in Witness Protection

1997

The Mamushi

1997

Legend of the Devil

1996

Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image

1996

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

1996

Black Jack

1996

Mitabi no kaikyô

1995

The Tale of Himeji Castle

1995

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident

1995

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki

1993

Succession

1992

The Ginger Tree

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood

1989

Trinacria: Porsche 959

1987

The Orphaned Geisha

1987

Onna Furin Kazan

1986

闇からの叫び

1986

Atami Murder Case

1986

Musashibo Benkei

1986

The Empty Table

1985

Ran

1985

国東物語

1985

Fireflies in the North

1984

Legend of the Assassin

1984

Shadow Hunters

1983

The Legend of Sayo

1982

Lake of Illusions

1982

The Law of Hell

1982

Toge no Gunzo

1982

Willful Murder

1981

Kagemusha

1980

Twelve Months

1980

Hunter in the Dark

1979

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

1978 Debut
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