Daisuke Ryū profile
Actor profile

Daisuke Ryū

14th February 1957 Tokyo, Japan Acting

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​

76 Movies 7 TV Shows 83 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Metropolis poster
Metropolis 26th May 2001 as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Ran poster
Ran 1st June 1985 as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Rinjo poster
Rinjo 15th April 2009 as Haruhisa Nabdo