Daisuke Ryū
Known for Acting
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
Ran
1985
as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Metropolis
2001
as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Kagemusha
1980
as Nobunaga Oda
Fireflies in the North
1984
as Nagakura
Bayside Shakedown
1998
as Obayashi
Agitator
2001
as Ichimatsu
A Lone Scalpel
2010
as Tatematsu Detective
Graveyard of Honor
2002
as Tadaaki Kuze
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Willful Murder
1981
as Maruyama
Woman in Witness Protection
1997
as Religious Cult Leader
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
2021
as Densuke Tsuchiya
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
1998
as Mutoh
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
2001
as Benkei
The Last Message
2012
as Bando
Twelve Months
1980
as Officer (voice)
Lake of Illusions
1982
as Nagao
You Dance with the Summer
2010
as Shintaro Teramoto
Anticipation
2019