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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 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
Known for
RanMovie • 1985
Toge no GunzoSeries • 1982
KagemushaMovie • 1980
MetropolisMovie • 2001
Bayside ShakedownMovie • 1998
Gojoe: Spirit War ChronicleMovie • 2001
Twelve MonthsMovie • 1980
Bandits vs. Samurai SquadronMovie • 1978
Graveyard of HonorMovie • 2002
AgitatorMovie • 2001
Hunter in the DarkMovie • 1979
Ultraman: The NextMovie • 2004
Zero Woman ReturnsMovie • 1999