Daisuke Ryū
Acting • Born 1957-02-14 – Died 2021-04-11
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daisuke Ryu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
83 credits
Bayside Shakedown
Movie • 1998
Obayashi
Ran
Movie • 1985
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Kagemusha
Movie • 1980
Nobunaga Oda
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Movie • 2001
Benkei
The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Movie • 2001
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
Movie • 1999
Zero Woman Returns
Movie • 1999
Mutoh
Joshi Camera
Movie • 2012
Solitary Scream
Movie • 2017
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
Movie • 2017
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
Movie • 2006
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Movie • 2021
Densuke Tsuchiya
Hunter in the Dark
Movie • 1979
The Law of Hell
Movie • 1982
Black Jack
Movie • 1996
Black Jack
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Movie • 1996
Black Jack
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
Movie • 1996
Black Jack
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Movie • 1995
Ultraman: The Next
Movie • 2004
Kazusa Sogabe
Zero Woman: The Hunted
Movie • 1997
Mutoh
Twelve Months
Movie • 1980
Officer (voice)
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
Movie • 1998
Mutoh
The Legend of Sayo
Movie • 1982
The Last Message
Movie • 2012
Bando
Graveyard of Honor
Movie • 2002
Tadaaki Kuze
The Tale of Himeji Castle
Movie • 1995
Time Trip App
Movie • 2014
Toshizo Yamashita
Legend of the Assassin
Movie • 1984
The Great Jailbreak
Movie • 2002
Agitator
Movie • 2001
Ichimatsu
Gassoh
Movie • 2015
Tangerines on Cat
Movie • 2014
Shoichiro
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
Movie • 2007
Katsuie Shibata
Shadow Hunters
Movie • 1983
You Dance with the Summer
Movie • 2010
Shintaro Teramoto
Shura Group Part 2
Movie • 2002
Shura Group Part 3
Movie • 2002
Legend of the Devil
Movie • 1996
The Orphaned Geisha
Movie • 1987
Yuuki Shinichiro
The Mamushi
Movie • 1997
Lake of Illusions
Movie • 1982
Nagao
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie • 1989
Koji Muranaka
Fireflies in the North
Movie • 1984
Nagakura
Nezulla the Rat Monster
Movie • 2002
Aso
The Empty Table
Movie • 1985
Akira Sawaki
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Movie • 2002
Self
I Will Never Forgive
Movie • 2018
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Movie • 1978
Woman in Witness Protection
Movie • 1997
Religious Cult Leader
Abare Bunya
Movie • 1998
A Lone Scalpel
Movie • 2010
Tatematsu Detective
Wild Criminal
Movie • 1999
Casino Customer #1
Another XX: Matori Woman
Movie • 1998
Guard Dog
Movie • 1997
Atami Murder Case
Movie • 1986
Son of Onijima
Tokyo Wine Party People
Movie • 2019
Makita
Metropolis
Movie • 2001
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Succession
Movie • 1992
Tadashi Senda
Scorpion: Double Venom 2
Movie • 1998
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
Movie • 1993
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Movie • 2019
Kokuhei Kusunoki
Mitabi no kaikyô
Movie • 1995
Willful Murder
Movie • 1981
Maruyama
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Movie • 2003
Yakuza Jihad
Movie • 2002
Yakuza Jihad 2
Movie • 2002
Yakuza Jihad 3
Movie • 2002
Anticipation
Movie • 2019
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
Movie • 2009
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
Movie • 2009
Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
Movie • 2009
国東物語
Movie • 1985
Trinacria: Porsche 959
Movie • 1987
Chaka 2
Movie • 1999
The King of Minami: Special Ver.50
Movie • 2004
Domoto
Semi: Nakanai Semi
Movie • 2003
Toge no Gunzo
TV • 1982
Onna Furin Kazan
TV • 1986
The Ginger Tree
TV • 1989
Count Kentaro Kurihama
Rinjo
TV • 2009
Haruhisa Nabdo
The Next Generation: Patlabor
TV • 2014
Musashibo Benkei
TV • 1986
Taira no Tomomori
闇からの叫び
TV • 1986