Daisuke Ryū

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-02-14 (64 years old)

Deathday

2021-04-11

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 centu...

Acting

1998

1985

Ran

as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

1980

Kagemusha

as Nobunaga Oda

1999

2021

Nobutora - Samurai Tiger

as Densuke Tsuchiya

1996

Black Jack

as Black Jack

2004

Ultraman: The Next

as Kazusa Sogabe

1980

Twelve Months

as Officer

2012

2002

Graveyard of Honor

as Tadaaki Kuze

2014

Time Trip App

as Toshizo Yamashita

2001

Agitator

as Ichimatsu

2015

2014

Tangerines on Cat

as Shoichiro

2010

You Dance with the Summer

as Shintaro Teramoto

1987

The Orphaned Geisha

as Yuuki Shinichiro

1982

1989

1984

1985

The Empty Table

as Akira Sawaki

1997

Woman in Witness Protection

as Religious Cult Leader

2010

A Lone Scalpel

as Tatematsu Detective

1999

Wild Criminal

as Casino Customer #1

1986

Atami Murder Case

as Son of Onijima

2001

Metropolis

as Special Voice Appearance (voice)

1992

Succession

as Tadashi Senda

1981

Willful Murder

as Maruyama

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