Daisuke Ryū
Known for: Acting
Born: February 14, 1957
Died: April 11, 2021
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
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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Filmography
77 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
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Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
2021
5.0
Tokyo Wine Party People
2019
8.2
Anticipation
2019
NR
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
2019
4.5
I Will Never Forgive
2018
NR
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
2017
NR
Solitary Scream
2017
7.8
Gassoh
2015
6.0
Time Trip App
2014
4.0
Tangerines on Cat
2014
7.0
The Next Generation: Patlabor
2014
NR
Joshi Camera
2012
6.3
The Last Message
2012
8.0
You Dance with the Summer
2010
6.5
A Lone Scalpel
2010
NR
Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
2009
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Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
2009
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Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
2009
6.0
Rinjo
2009
NR
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
2007
6.0
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
2006
6.5
Ultraman: The Next
2004
NR
The King of Minami: Special Ver.50
2004
NR
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
NR
Semi: Nakanai Semi
2003
NR
Shura Group Part 2
2002
3.8
Nezulla the Rat Monster
2002
7.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
2002
8.0
Yakuza Jihad
2002
9.0
Yakuza Jihad 2
2002
7.0
Yakuza Jihad 3
2002
6.2
Graveyard of Honor
2002
NR
The Great Jailbreak
2002
NR
Shura Group Part 3
2002
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The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
2001
6.4
Agitator
2001
6.8
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
2001
7.2
Metropolis
2001
6.3
Zero Woman Returns
1999
7.0
Wild Criminal
1999
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Chaka 2
1999
4.0
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
1999
6.5
Bayside Shakedown
1998
4.0
Scorpion: Double Venom 2
1998
NR
Abare Bunya
1998
5.0
Another XX: Matori Woman
1998
4.6
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
1998
4.7
Zero Woman: The Hunted
1997
NR
Guard Dog
1997
6.4
Woman in Witness Protection
1997
NR
The Mamushi
1997
8.0
Legend of the Devil
1996
NR
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
1996
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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996
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Black Jack
1996
7.0
Mitabi no kaikyô
1995
6.7
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995
7.0
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
1993
7.5
Succession
1992
5.7
The Ginger Tree
1989
7.3
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
NR
Trinacria: Porsche 959
1987NR
The Orphaned Geisha
1987
8.0
Taikoki
1987NR
Onna Furin Kazan
1986NR
闇からの叫び
1986
10.0
Atami Murder Case
1986
NR
Musashibo Benkei
1986
6.9
The Empty Table
1985
8.0
Ran
1985
NR
国東物語
1985
5.6
Fireflies in the North
1984
NR
Legend of the Assassin
1984
8.0
Shadow Hunters
1983
7.0
The Legend of Sayo
1982
4.0
Lake of Illusions
1982
NR
The Law of Hell
1982
NR
Toge no Gunzo
1982
8.0
Willful Murder
1981
7.8
Kagemusha
1980
6.9
Twelve Months
1980
6.3
Hunter in the Dark
1979
6.1
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978