Daisuke Ryū

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daisuke Ryu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Known For

Ran

as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Kagemusha

as Nobunaga Oda

Metropolis

as Special Voice Appearance (voice)

Graveyard of Honor

as Tadaaki Kuze

Agitator

as Ichimatsu

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

as Benkei

Bayside Shakedown

as Obayashi

Zero Woman Returns

as Mutoh

Ultraman: The Next

as Kazusa Sogabe

Twelve Months

as Officer (voice)