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 century, it spans the period 1903 to the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Movies 77
Ran
as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
1985
Kagemusha
as Nobunaga Oda
1980
Metropolis
as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
2001
Bayside Shakedown
as Obayashi
1998
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Koji Muranaka
1989
Ultraman: The Next
as Kazusa Sogabe
2004
Fireflies in the North
as Nagakura
1984
Anticipation
2019
Time Trip App
as Toshizo Yamashita
2014
Woman in Witness Protection
as Religious Cult Leader
1997
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Another XX: Matori Woman
1998
The Empty Table
as Akira Sawaki
1985
Twelve Months
as Officer (voice)
1980
Lake of Illusions
as Nagao
1982
Agitator
as Ichimatsu
2001
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
as Densuke Tsuchiya
2021
Graveyard of Honor
as Tadaaki Kuze
2002
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
as Mutoh
1998
A Lone Scalpel
as Tatematsu Detective
2010
Succession
as Tadashi Senda
1992
Zero Woman: The Hunted
as Mutoh
1997
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
as Benkei
2001
I Will Never Forgive
2018
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
Scorpion: Double Venom 2
1998
Wild Criminal
as Casino Customer #1
1999
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
2006
Taikoki
as Azai Nagamasa
1987
Gassoh
2015
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
as Black Jack
1996
Solitary Scream
2017
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
2009
Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
2009
Zero Woman Returns
as Mutoh
1999
Willful Murder
as Maruyama
1981
Tokyo Wine Party People
as Makita
2019
The Last Message
as Bando
2012
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
as Black Jack
1996
Abare Bunya
1998
The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
2001
Mitabi no kaikyô
1995
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
as Katsuie Shibata
2007
Shura Group Part 3
2002
The Law of Hell
as Sadashichi
1982
The Legend of Sayo
as Takeo
1982
Yakuza Jihad
2002
Tangerines on Cat
as Shoichiro
2014
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
as Self
2002
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
Nezulla the Rat Monster
as Aso
2002
Semi: Nakanai Semi
2003
You Dance with the Summer
as Shintaro Teramoto
2010
Yakuza Jihad 2
2002
Yakuza Jihad 3
2002
Joshi Camera
2012
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
as Obayashi
1995
The Orphaned Geisha
as Yuuki Shinichiro
1987
The King of Minami: Special Ver.50
as Domoto
2004
Legend of the Assassin
1984
Legend of the Devil
1996
国東物語
1985
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
1993
Trinacria: Porsche 959
1987
Atami Murder Case
as Son of Onijima
1986
Chaka 2
1999
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
2017
Shadow Hunters
1983
Black Jack
as Black Jack
1996
Shura Group Part 2
2002
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
as Kokuhei Kusunoki
2019
The Mamushi
1997
The Great Jailbreak
2002
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
2009
Guard Dog
1997
