Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-14 (64 years old)
Deathday
2021-04-11
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also known As
隆大介
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 centu...
1998
as Obayashi
1985
as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
1980
as Nobunaga Oda
2001
as Benkei
1999
as Mutoh
2012
2017
2021
as Densuke Tsuchiya
1982
1996
as Black Jack
1996
as Black Jack
1996
as Black Jack
2004
as Kazusa Sogabe
1997
as Mutoh
1980
as Officer
1998
as Mutoh
2012
as Bando
2002
as Tadaaki Kuze
2014
as Toshizo Yamashita
2001
as Ichimatsu
2015
2014
as Shoichiro
2007
as Katsuie Shibata
1983
2010
as Shintaro Teramoto
1987
as Yuuki Shinichiro
1997
1982
as Nagao
1989
as Koji Muranaka
1984
as Nagakura
1985
as Akira Sawaki
1997
as Religious Cult Leader
1998
2010
as Tatematsu Detective
1999
as Casino Customer #1
1997
1986
as Son of Onijima
2019
as Makita
2001
as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
1992
as Tadashi Senda
2019
as Kokuhei Kusunoki
1995
1981
as Maruyama
2019
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