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Daisuke Ryū

Daisuke Ryū

Acting

February 14, 1957 – April 11, 2021 (died at 64)
Tokyo, Japan
Male
76 Movies
7 TV Shows

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​

Ran
Ran

Ran

1985 8.0

as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Age 28 (now 64)
Kagemusha
Kagemusha

Kagemusha

1980 7.8

as Nobunaga Oda

Age 23 (now 64)
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

2001 6.8

as Benkei

Age 44 (now 64)
Zero Woman Returns
Zero Woman Returns

Zero Woman Returns

1999 6.3

as Mutoh

Age 42 (now 64)
Ultraman: The Next
Ultraman: The Next

Ultraman: The Next

2004 6.4

as Kazusa Sogabe

Age 47 (now 64)
Twelve Months
Twelve Months

Twelve Months

1980 6.9

as Officer (voice)

Age 23 (now 64)
Graveyard of Honor
Graveyard of Honor

Graveyard of Honor

2002 6.3

as Tadaaki Kuze

Age 45 (now 64)
Metropolis
Metropolis

Metropolis

2001 7.1

as Special Voice Appearance (voice)

Age 44 (now 64)
Anticipation
Anticipation

Anticipation

2019 8.2
Age 62 (now 64)
Gassoh
Gassoh

Gassoh

2015 7.8
Age 58 (now 64)
Zero Woman: The Hunted
Zero Woman: The Hunted

Zero Woman: The Hunted

1997 4.7

as Mutoh

Age 40 (now 64)
Bayside Shakedown
Bayside Shakedown

Bayside Shakedown

1998 6.5

as Obayashi

Age 41 (now 64)
Fireflies in the North
Fireflies in the North

Fireflies in the North

1984 5.6

as Nagakura

Age 27 (now 64)
Woman in Witness Protection
Woman in Witness Protection

Woman in Witness Protection

1997 6.3

as Religious Cult Leader

Age 40 (now 64)
Agitator
Agitator

Agitator

2001 6.5

as Ichimatsu

Age 44 (now 64)
Nezulla the Rat Monster
Nezulla the Rat Monster

Nezulla the Rat Monster

2002 3.8

as Aso

Age 45 (now 64)