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
Ran
(1985)
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Kagemusha
(1980)
Nobunaga Oda
Metropolis
(2001)
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
(2001)
Benkei
Ultraman: The Next
(2004)
Kazusa Sogabe
The Last Message
(2012)
Bando
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
Lake of Illusions
(1982)
Nagao
The Law of Hell
(1982)
The Legend of Sayo
(1982)
Shadow Hunters
(1983)
Shadow Hunters
(1983)
Legend of the Assassin
(1984)
Fireflies in the North
(1984)
Nagakura
Myth of the Assassins
(1984)
The Empty Table
(1985)
Akira Sawaki
Ran
(1985)
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
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)
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
(1995)
Mitabi no kaikyô
(1995)
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
(1996)
Black Jack
Black Jack
(1996)
Black Jack
Legend of the Devil
(1996)
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
(1996)
Black Jack
Woman in Witness Protection
(1997)
Religious Cult Leader
Zero Woman: The Hunted
(1997)
Mutoh
Guard Dog
(1997)
Abare Bunya
(1998)
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
(1998)
Mutoh
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)
Agitator
(2001)
Ichimatsu
The Legend of Ando Family: The Road to Hell
(2001)
Metropolis
(2001)
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
(2001)
Benkei
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
(2002)
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III
(2002)
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II
(2002)
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
(2002)
Self
Nezulla the Rat Monster
(2002)
The Great Jailbreak
(2002)
Graveyard of Honor
(2002)
Tadaaki Kuze
Another Battle/Conspiracy
(2003)
Ultraman: The Next
(2004)
Kazusa Sogabe
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
(2006)
Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
(2007)
Katsuie Shibata
A Lone Scalpel
(2010)
Tatematsu Detective
You Dance with the Summer
(2010)
Shintaro Teramoto
The Last Message
(2012)
Bando
Joshi Camera
(2012)
Tangerines on Cat
(2014)
Shoichiro
Time Trip App
(2014)
Toshizo Yamashita
Gassoh
(2015)
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
(2017)
Solitary Scream
(2017)
I Will Never Forgive
(2018)
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
(2019)
Kokuhei Kusunoki
Tokyo Wine Party People
(2019)
Makita
Anticipation
(2019)
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
(2021)
Densuke Tsuchiya