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Daisuke Ryū
Actor
Born February 14, 1957Died April 11, 2021 (64 years)
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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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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Known For
Filmography
| 2023 | Life Work of Akira Kurosawa · as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji |
| 2021 | Nobutora - Samurai Tiger · as Densuke Tsuchiya |
| 2019 | Tokyo Wine Party People · as Makita |
| 2019 | Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody · as Kokuhei Kusunoki |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | Time Trip App · as Toshizo Yamashita |
| 2014 | Neko ni mikan · as Shoichiro |
| 2014 | The Next Generation -Patlabor- (TV Series) |
| 2014 | Strategist Kanbe (TV Series) · as Kyumu Kuroda |
| 2012 | Taira no Kiyomori (TV Series) · as Oborozuki |
| 2010 | Kimi ga odoru natsu · as Shintaro Teramoto |
| 2010 | A Lone Scalpel · as Tatematsu Detective |
| 2009 | Kamui Gaiden · as Kashiwabara |
| 2009 | BOSS (TV Series) · as Shiota Kazushi |
| 2009 | Rinjo (TV Series) · as Haruhisa Nabdo |
| 2006 | Homicide Team 9 (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2004 | Ultraman: The Next · as Kazusa Sogabe |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Graveyard of Honor · as Tadaaki Kuze |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | Agitator · as Ichimatsu |
| 2001 | Metropolis · as Special Voice Appearance (voice) |
| 2000 | Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle · as Benkei |
| 1999 | Zero Woman Returns · as Mutoh |
| 1999 | After the Rain · as Cast |
| 1999 | The Woman of S.R.I. (TV Series) · as Kozo Ehara |
| 1999 | |
| 1998 | Bayside Shakedown · as Obayashi |
| 1998 | Zero Woman: Dangerous Game · as Mutoh |
| 1997 | Zero Woman: The Hunted · as Mutoh |
| 1997 | Woman in Witness Protection · as Religious Cult Leader |
| 1997 | Ultraman Dyna (TV Series) · as Kazuma Asuka |
| 1996 | Black Jack · as Black Jack |
| 1995 | Yoshimune (1995) (TV Series) · as Naganori Asano |
| 1992 | Succession · as Tadashi Senda |
| 1989 | The Ginger Tree (TV Series) · as Count Kentaro Kurihama |
| 1989 | Four Days of Snow and Blood · as Koji Muranaka |
| 1986 | Atami satsujin jiken · as Son Of Onijima |
| 1985 | Family Without a Dinner Table · as Akira Sawaki |
| 1985 | Ran · as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji |
| 1984 | Kita no hotaru · as Nagakura |
| 1984 | |
| 1983 | |
| 1982 | Lake of Illusions · as Nagao |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | Willful Murder · as Maruyama |
| 1980 | Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior · as Nobunaga Oda |
| 1980 | Twelve Months · as Officer |
| 1979 | |
| 1978 |