Daisuke Ryū

DOB: 1957-02-14

DOD: 2021-04-11

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​

Starred In

1998
Movie

Bayside Shakedown

1985
Movie

Ran

1980
Movie

Kagemusha

1999
Movie

Zero Woman Returns

2012
Movie

Joshi Camera

2017
Movie

Solitary Scream

1979
Movie

Hunter in the Dark

1982
Movie

The Law of Hell

1996
Movie

Black Jack

2004
Movie

Ultraman: The Next

1980
Movie

Twelve Months

1982
Movie

The Legend of Sayo

2012
Movie

The Last Message

2002
Movie

Graveyard of Honor

2014
Movie

Time Trip App

2001
Movie

Agitator

2015
Movie

Gassoh

2014
Movie

Tangerines on Cat

1983
Movie

Shadow Hunters

2002
Movie

Shura Group Part 3

2002
Movie

Shura Group Part 2

1997
Movie

The Mamushi

1982
Movie

Lake of Illusions

1985
Movie

The Empty Table

1998
Movie

Abare Bunya

2010
Movie

A Lone Scalpel

1999
Movie

Wild Criminal

1997
Movie

Guard Dog

1986
Movie

Atami Murder Case

2001
Movie

Metropolis

1992
Movie

Succession

1995
Movie

Mitabi no kaikyô

1981
Movie

Willful Murder

2019
Movie

Anticipation

NaN
Movie

国東物語

1982
Tv

Toge no Gunzo

2009
Tv

Rinjo