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
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2010s
- 2019
- 2018
I Will Never Forgive
Movie
- 2017
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
Movie
- 2015
- 2014
Time Trip App
Toshizo Yamashita
- 2012
Joshi Camera
Movie
The Last Message
Bando
- 2010
You Dance with the Summer
Shintaro Teramoto
2000s
- 2009
Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
Movie
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
Movie
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
Movie
- 2007
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
Katsuie Shibata
- 2006
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
Movie
- 2004
Ultraman: The Next
Kazusa Sogabe
The King of Minami: Special Ver.50
Domoto
- 2003
Semi: Nakanai Semi
Movie
- 2002
Nezulla the Rat Monster
Aso
Yakuza Jihad 2
Movie
Yakuza Jihad 3
Movie
The Great Jailbreak
Movie
- 2001
The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Movie
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Benkei
1990s
- 1999
Zero Woman Returns
Mutoh
Chaka 2
Movie
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
Movie
- 1998
Scorpion: Double Venom 2
Movie
Another XX: Matori Woman
Movie
- 1997
Zero Woman: The Hunted
Mutoh
Guard Dog
Movie
Woman in Witness Protection
Religious Cult Leader
The Mamushi
Movie
- 1996
Legend of the Devil
Movie
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
Black Jack
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Black Jack
- 1995
Mitabi no kaikyô
Movie
The Tale of Himeji Castle
Movie
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Obayashi
- 1993
- 1992
1980s
- 1989
The Ginger Tree
Count Kentaro Kurihama · 4 episodes
- 1987
Trinacria: Porsche 959
Movie
Taikoki
Azai Nagamasa
- 1986
Musashibo Benkei
Taira no Tomomori · 32 episodes
- 1985
国東物語
Movie
- 1984
Legend of the Assassin
Movie
- 1983
Shadow Hunters
Movie
- 1982
Lake of Illusions
Nagao
The Law of Hell
Sadashichi
- 1981
Willful Murder
Maruyama
- 1980
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2000s
- 2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Self