
Daisuke Ryū
Department: 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
Known For

Bayside Shakedown
1998

Ran
1985

Kagemusha
1980

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
2001

The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
2001

Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
1999

Zero Woman Returns
1999

Joshi Camera
2012

Solitary Scream
2017

Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
2017

Baian Fujieda the Assassin
2006

Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
2021

Hunter in the Dark
1979

The Law of Hell
1982

Black Jack
1996

Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
1996

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995

Ultraman: The Next
2004

Zero Woman: The Hunted
1997

Twelve Months
1980

Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
1998

The Legend of Sayo
1982

The Last Message
2012

Graveyard of Honor
2002

The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995

Time Trip App
2014

Legend of the Assassin
1984

The Great Jailbreak
2002

Agitator
2001

Gassoh
2015

Tangerines on Cat
2014

Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
2007

Shadow Hunters
1983

You Dance with the Summer
2010

Shura Group Part 3
2002

Shura Group Part 2
2002

Legend of the Devil
1996

The Orphaned Geisha
1987

The Mamushi
1997

Lake of Illusions
1982

Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989

Fireflies in the North
1984

Nezulla the Rat Monster
2002

The Empty Table
1985

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
2002

I Will Never Forgive
2018

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978

Woman in Witness Protection
1997

Abare Bunya
1998

A Lone Scalpel
2010

Wild Criminal
1999

Another XX: Matori Woman
1998

Guard Dog
1997

Atami Murder Case
1986

Tokyo Wine Party People
2019

Metropolis
2001

Succession
1992

Scorpion: Double Venom 2
1998

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
1993

Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
2019

Mitabi no kaikyô
1995

Willful Murder
1981

Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003

Yakuza Jihad
2002

Yakuza Jihad 2
2002

Yakuza Jihad 3
2002

Anticipation
2019

Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
2009

Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
2009

Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
2009

国東物語
1985

Trinacria: Porsche 959
1987

Chaka 2
1999

The King of Minami: Special Ver.50
2004

Semi: Nakanai Semi
2003

Toge no Gunzo
1982

Onna Furin Kazan
1986

The Ginger Tree
1989

Rinjo
2009

The Next Generation: Patlabor
2014

Musashibo Benkei
1986

闇からの叫び
1986