Daisuke Ryū
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Kagemusha
as Nobunaga Oda 1980
Metropolis
as Special Voice Appearance (voice) 2001
Graveyard of Honor
as Tadaaki Kuze 2002
Agitator
as Ichimatsu 2001
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
as Benkei 2001
Bayside Shakedown
as Obayashi 1998
Zero Woman Returns
as Mutoh 1999
Ultraman: The Next
as Kazusa Sogabe 2004
Twelve Months
as Officer (voice) 1980
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Time Trip App
as Toshizo Yamashita 2014
Woman in Witness Protection
as Religious Cult Leader 1997
Gassoh
2015
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Koji Muranaka 1989
Zero Woman: The Hunted
as Mutoh 1997