Daisuke Ryū

Known for ActingBorn 1957-02-14Died 2021-04-11Tokyo, Japan

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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

Atami Murder Case

Yakuza Jihad 2

Anticipation

You Dance with the Summer

Yakuza Jihad

Legend of the Devil

Gassoh

Taikoki

Ran

Shadow Hunters

Willful Murder

A Lone Scalpel

Kagemusha

Succession

Metropolis

Four Days of Snow and Blood

The Next Generation: Patlabor

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

Yakuza Jihad 3

Wild Criminal

Mitabi no kaikyô

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki

The Legend of Sayo

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

The Empty Table

Twelve Months

The Tale of Himeji Castle

Tangerines on Cat

Ultraman: The Next

Bayside Shakedown

The Last Message

Agitator

Woman in Witness Protection

Graveyard of Honor

Zero Woman Returns

Time Trip App

Hunter in the Dark

Rinjo

Baian Fujieda the Assassin

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

The Ginger Tree

Fireflies in the North

Tokyo Wine Party People

Another XX: Matori Woman

I Will Never Forgive

Zero Woman: The Hunted

Zero Woman: Dangerous Game

Scorpion: Double Venom 2