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Aliases: 隆大介

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 29

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

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​

Most Famous Work

Ran
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8

Ran

(1985) Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Kagemusha
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8

Kagemusha

(1980) Nobunaga Oda
Metropolis
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7

Metropolis

(2001) Special Voice Appearance (voice)
Fireflies in the North
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5

Fireflies in the North

(1984) Nagakura
Ultraman: The Next
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6

Ultraman: The Next

(2004) Kazusa Sogabe
Four Days of Snow and Blood
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7

Four Days of Snow and Blood

(1989) Koji Muranaka
Musashibo Benkei
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0

Musashibo Benkei

(1986) Taira no Tomomori
Agitator
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6

Agitator

(2001) Ichimatsu

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2021 Densuke Tsuchiya
2019 Makita
N/A
Kokuhei Kusunoki
2018 N/A
2017 N/A
N/A
2015 N/A
2014 Toshizo Yamashita
Shoichiro
N/A
2012 N/A
Bando
2010 Shintaro Teramoto
Tatematsu Detective
2009 Haruhisa Nabdo
2007 Katsuie Shibata
2006 N/A
2004 Kazusa Sogabe
2003 N/A
2002 N/A
Self
N/A
N/A
N/A
Tadaaki Kuze
2001 N/A
Ichimatsu
Benkei
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
1999 Mutoh
Casino Customer #1
N/A
1998 N/A
Obayashi
N/A
N/A
Mutoh
1997 Mutoh
N/A
Religious Cult Leader
1996 N/A
Black Jack
Black Jack
Black Jack
1995 N/A
N/A
N/A
1993 N/A
1992 Tadashi Senda
1989 Count Kentaro Kurihama
Koji Muranaka
1986 N/A
Son of Onijima
Taira no Tomomori
1985 Akira Sawaki
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
1984 Nagakura
N/A
1982 N/A
Nagao
N/A
N/A
1981 Maruyama
1980 Nobunaga Oda
Officer
1979 N/A
1978 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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