
Daisuke Ryū
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 19…
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Ran
1985
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Kagemusha
1980
Nobunaga Oda

Metropolis
2001
Special Voice Appearance (voice)

Graveyard of Honor
2002
Tadaaki Kuze

Agitator
2001
Ichimatsu

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
2001
Benkei

Bayside Shakedown
1998
Obayashi

Zero Woman Returns
1999
Mutoh

Ultraman: The Next
2004
Kazusa Sogabe

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978

Hunter in the Dark
1979

Twelve Months
1980
Officer (voice)

Time Trip App
2014
Toshizo Yamashita

Woman in Witness Protection
1997
Religious Cult Leader

Gassoh
2015

Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
Koji Muranaka

Zero Woman: The Hunted
1997
Mutoh

Fireflies in the North
1984
Nagakura

A Lone Scalpel
2010
Tatematsu Detective

Scorpion: Double Venom 2
1998
