
Daisuke Ryū
- Date of Birth: 1957-02-14
- Date of Death: 2021-04-11
- Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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 Kur... 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

Shadow Hunters
Drama, History, Action • 1983 October

Anticipation
Drama • 2019 April

Ran
Action, Drama, History • 1985 June

You Dance with the Summer
Drama • 2010 September

Kagemusha
Action, Drama, History, War • 1980 April

Gassoh
Drama, History, Action • 2015 September

Willful Murder
Drama • 1981 November

Metropolis
Animation, Science Fiction • 2001 May

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Documentary • 2002 October

Four Days of Snow and Blood
Drama, War, History • 1989 June