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 (GojÅ 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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Daisuke Ryû Biography / Wiki
| Name | Daisuke Ryû |
| Also Know | 隆大介 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1957-02-14 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday | 2021-04-11 |
Daisuke Ryû Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Nezulla the Rat Monster | 2002-10-25 | A Japanese Company funded by the USA experimenting with anti-bacteriological weapons creates a mutated humanoid rat creature which becomes violent and… | |
| Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody | Kokuhei Kusunoki | 2019-03-09 | Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transf… |
| Black Jack | Black Jack | 1996-01-01 | Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor’s license. … |
| Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You | Black Jack | 1996-01-01 | A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what… |
| Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image | Black Jack | 1996-06-25 | Blackjack’s surgery was to save Dr. Summit, a surgeon infected with a mysterious infectious disease. However, there appears Dr. Kiriko, who demands ex… |
| Lake of Illusions | Nagao | 1982-09-11 | A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white do… |
| I Will Never Forgive | 2018-04-07 | A psychological drama about the consequences of a 15 year old girl’s gang rape…. | |
| Another XX: Matori no onna | 1998-05-15 | 4th Entry in a Four-Part-Series, following the success of the original XX-series with 7 parts: In this one Yoko is an undercover cop infiltrating the … | |
| Koya Choken-bou oboegaki | 1993-12-04 | … | |
| Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3 | 1999-05-14 | The first of three V-Cinema sequels…. | |
| Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle | Benkei | 2001-10-07 | Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and u… |
| Zero Woman Returns | Mutoh | 1999-12-27 | Rei, whose undercover role is so guarded that there is no written record of her identity, is well known for her accuracy in completing missions and he… |
| Ran | Saburo Naotora Ichimonji | 1985-06-01 | With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic … |
| Zero Woman: Dangerous Game | Mutoh | 1998-05-01 | In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Department’s secret Zero Division, has been assigned to… |
| The Legend of Sayo | 1982-12-17 | Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for… | |
| Fireflies in the North | Nagakura | 1984-09-01 | Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced t… |
| Zero Woman: The Hunted | Mutoh | 1997-12-03 | A woman with no past or identity, Rei is a gorgeous undercover agent for the Zero Department, a deadly shadow division of the police force. But her sk… |
| Kagemusha | Nobunaga Oda | 1980-04-26 | Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid at… |
| Twelve Months | Officer | 1980-03-15 | A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year’s Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she do… |
| Tenshu monogatari | 1995-09-09 | A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He i… | |
| Tangerines on Cat | Shoichiro | 2014-04-22 | Tomohiro takes his fiance Machiko to his hometown of Aridagawa in Wakayama Prefecture to see his family.Tomohiro’s family includes three siblings. H… |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Kagemusha | Interviewee | 2002-10-25 | Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Kagemusha” (1980)…. |
| Abare Bunya | 1998-08-28 | Based on Tetsuya Saruwatari’s manga series about a reporter who gets assigned to a serial murder case involving schoolgirls who engage in “compensated… | |
| Wild Criminal | Casino Customer #1 | 1999-07-24 | Tomoyo was the lover of Udo, a leading member of the Japanese mafia. When Udo disappears with a bundle of dirty money, she is a suspected accomplice. … |
| Guard Dog | 1997-11-07 | A tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who’s been assigned as the bodyguard for a popular young entertainer, and the ex-mercenary … | |
| Succession | Tadashi Senda | 1992-08-29 | A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate…. |
| Another Battle/Conspiracy | 2003-02-15 | Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed by… | |
| Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident | 1995-09-02 | Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II… | |
| Family without a Dinner Table | Akira Sawaki | 1985-11-01 | This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire… |
| Ultraman: The Next | Kazusa Sogabe | 2004-12-18 | First Lieutenant Shun’ichi Maki of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is a prestigious F-15 Eagle jet pilot (or “driver” as he is called in the film). A… |
| Gassoh | 2015-09-26 | In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the… | |
| You Dance with the Summer | Shintaro Teramoto | 2010-09-11 | Shinpei (Junpei Mizobata) dreams of being a professional cameraman and lives in Tokyo. One day, he hears that his mother has been hospitalized and ret… |
| Woman in Witness Protection | 1997-09-27 | Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnera… | |
| Tokyo Wine Party People | Makita | 2019-10-04 | Shino Sakuragi is an OL. She attends a wine party recommended by her boss, even though she isn’t comfortable at such a fancy get together. There, Saku… |
| Gokudô seisen: Jihaado | 2002-07-08 | The first in the “Gokudo Seisen” series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi … | |
| Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III | 2002-07-08 | The third installment of the hard-line action OV “Gokudo Seisen” series, which presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision … | |
| Joshi Camera | 2012-11-24 | Miki (Kaoru Mitsumune), Aya (Mika Kumagai), Megumi (Miyako Takayama) and Haruka (Yukiyo Sono) are friends in the same photography club at their univer… | |
| Scorpion: Double Venom 2 | 1998-10-31 | Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the–don’t laugh–one-armed… | |
| Baian Fujieda the Assassin | 2006-11-04 | An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ru… | |
| Graveyard of Honor | Tadaaki Kuze (as Daisuke Ryuu) | 2002-06-22 | A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss’ life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems…. |
| Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II | 2002-07-08 | The second installment of the “Gokudo Seisen” series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervisio… | |
| Time Trip App | Toshizo Yamashita | 2014-07-26 | In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid usel… |
| Atami Murder Case | Son of Onijima | 1986-06-07 | Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei’… |
| Mitabi no kaikyô | 1995-10-11 | … | |
| Legend of the Devil | 1996-11-09 | A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family exchange her for the family treasure. The world’s… | |
| The Last Message | 2012-06-30 | Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill indiscrim… | |
| A Lone Scalpel | Tatematsu Detective | 2010-06-05 | Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something… |
| Agitator | 2001-10-28 | When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family’s nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retal… | |
| Four Days of Snow and Blood | Koji Muranaka | 1989-06-17 | Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading po… |
| Metropolis | Special Voice Appearance (voice) | 2001-05-26 | Kenichi and his detective uncle, Shunsaku Ban, leave Japan to visit Metropolis, in search of the criminal, Dr. Laughton. However, when they finally fi… |
| Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron | 1978-07-01 | Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to … | |
| Willful Murder | Maruyama | 1981-11-07 | The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutd… |
| Anticipation | 2019-04-06 | Todo, an old wealthy man, is fascinated by the appearance of Sayumi walking in the graveyard in midsummer, holding the urn of his late mother. Sayumi,… | |
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