
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.
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Ran
1985 · as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Kagemusha
1980 · as Nobunaga Oda

Metropolis
2001 · as Special Voice Appearance (voice)

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
1993

Fireflies in the North
1984 · as Nagakura

Anticipation
2019

Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
1998 · as Mutoh

Bayside Shakedown
1998 · as Obayashi

Lake of Illusions
1982 · as Nagao

Ultraman: The Next
2004 · as Kazusa Sogabe

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
2001 · as Benkei

Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989 · as Koji Muranaka

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978

The Empty Table
1985 · as Akira Sawaki

Semi: Nakanai Semi
2003

Agitator
2001 · as Ichimatsu

Time Trip App
2014 · as Toshizo Yamashita

Graveyard of Honor
2002 · as Tadaaki Kuze