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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Known For
Kagemusha
(1980)
Nobunaga Oda
Ran
(1985)
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Metropolis
(2001)
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Ultraman: The Next
(2004)
Kazusa Sogabe
Bayside Shakedown
(1998)
Obayashi
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
(1978)
Full Filmography
Acting
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
(1978)
Hunter in the Dark
(1979)
Kagemusha
(1980)
Nobunaga Oda
Twelve Months
(1980)
Officer
Willful Murder
(1981)
Maruyama
The Legend of Sayo
(1982)
Lake of Illusions
(1982)
Nagao
The Law of Hell
(1982)
Shadow Hunters
(1983)
Shadow Hunters
(1983)
Fireflies in the North
(1984)
Nagakura
Legend of the Assassin
(1984)
Myth of the Assassins
(1984)
Ran
(1985)
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
The Empty Table
(1985)
Akira Sawaki
Atami Murder Case
(1986)
Son of Onijima
Four Days of Snow and Blood
(1989)
Koji Muranaka
Succession
(1992)
Tadashi Senda
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
(1993)
The Tale of Himeji Castle
(1995)
Mitabi no kaikyô
(1995)
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
(1995)
Legend of the Devil
(1996)
Black Jack
(1996)
Black Jack
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
(1996)
Black Jack
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
(1996)
Black Jack
Woman in Witness Protection
(1997)
Religious Cult Leader
Guard Dog
(1997)
Zero Woman: The Hunted
(1997)
Mutoh
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
(1998)
Mutoh
Abare Bunya
(1998)
Another XX: Matori no onna
(1998)
Scorpion: Double Venom 2
(1998)
Bayside Shakedown
(1998)
Obayashi
Zero Woman Returns
(1999)
Mutoh
Wild Criminal
(1999)
Casino Customer #1
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
(1999)
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
(2001)
Benkei
Metropolis
(2001)
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Agitator
(2001)
Ichimatsu
The Legend of Ando Family: The Road to Hell
(2001)
Graveyard of Honor
(2002)
Tadaaki Kuze
Nezulla the Rat Monster
(2002)
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
(2002)
Self
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
(2002)
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II
(2002)
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III
(2002)
The Great Jailbreak
(2002)
Another Battle/Conspiracy
(2003)
Ultraman: The Next
(2004)
Kazusa Sogabe
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
(2006)
Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
(2007)
Katsuie Shibata
You Dance with the Summer
(2010)
Shintaro Teramoto
A Lone Scalpel
(2010)
Tatematsu Detective
The Last Message
(2012)
Bando
Joshi Camera
(2012)
Time Trip App
(2014)
Toshizo Yamashita
Tangerines on Cat
(2014)
Shoichiro
Gassoh
(2015)
Solitary Scream
(2017)
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
(2017)
I Will Never Forgive
(2018)
Tokyo Wine Party People
(2019)
Makita
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
(2019)
Kokuhei Kusunoki
Anticipation
(2019)
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
(2021)
Densuke Tsuchiya