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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 …
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- Ran (1985) as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
- The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014) Cast
- Rinjo (2009) as Haruhisa Nabdo
- Metropolis (2001) as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
- Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998) as Mutoh
- Kagemusha (1980) as Nobunaga Oda
- Toge no Gunzo (1982) Cast
- Anticipation (2019) Cast
- Musashibo Benkei (1986) as Taira no Tomomori
- Onna Furin Kazan (1986) Cast
- The Ginger Tree (1989) as Count Kentaro Kurihama
- Fireflies in the North (1984) as Nagakura
- Bayside Shakedown (1998) as Obayashi
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978) Cast
- Succession (1992) as Tadashi Senda
- Another XX: Matori Woman (1998) Cast
- Mitabi no kaikyô (1995) Cast
- Agitator (2001) as Ichimatsu
- Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) as Koji Muranaka
- Zero Woman Returns (1999) as Mutoh
- Zero Woman: The Hunted (1997) as Mutoh
- Graveyard of Honor (2002) as Tadaaki Kuze
- Another Battle/Conspiracy (2003) Cast
- Lake of Illusions (1982) as Nagao
- Tokyo Wine Party People (2019) as Makita
- Time Trip App (2014) as Toshizo Yamashita
- A Lone Scalpel (2010) as Tatematsu Detective
- Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2001) as Benkei
- Wild Criminal (1999) as Casino Customer #1
- You Dance with the Summer (2010) as Shintaro Teramoto
- Twelve Months (1980) as Officer (voice)
- Ultraman: The Next (2004) as Kazusa Sogabe
- Woman in Witness Protection (1997) as Religious Cult Leader
- Hunter in the Dark (1979) Cast
- I Will Never Forgive (2018) Cast
- Gassoh (2015) Cast
- Koya Choken-bou oboegaki (1993) Cast
- Willful Murder (1981) as Maruyama
- The Empty Table (1985) as Akira Sawaki
- Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated (2007) as Katsuie Shibata
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Most-watched Daisuke Ryū films currently: Ran (1985), Metropolis (2001), Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998), Kagemusha (1980), Anticipation (2019).
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Selected TV credits: The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014), Rinjo (2009), Toge no Gunzo (1982), Musashibo Benkei (1986), Onna Furin Kazan (1986).
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