Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1957-02-14
Day of Death
2021-04-11
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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
Filmography (76)
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
2021
Tokyo Wine Party People
2019
Anticipation
2019
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
2019
I Will Never Forgive
2018
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
2017
Solitary Scream
2017
Gassoh
2015
Time Trip App
2014
Tangerines on Cat
2014
Joshi Camera
2012
The Last Message
2012
You Dance with the Summer
2010
A Lone Scalpel
2010
