
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

The Next Generation: Patlabor
TV • 2014

Ran
MOVIE • 1985

Toge no Gunzo
TV • 1982

Metropolis
MOVIE • 2001

Musashibo Benkei
TV • 1986

Kagemusha
MOVIE • 1980

Rinjo
TV • 2009

Fireflies in the North
MOVIE • 1984

Bayside Shakedown
MOVIE • 1998

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
MOVIE • 2001

The Ginger Tree
TV • 1989

A Lone Scalpel
MOVIE • 2010

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
MOVIE • 1978

Graveyard of Honor
MOVIE • 2002

Agitator
MOVIE • 2001

Willful Murder
MOVIE • 1981

The Last Message
MOVIE • 2012

Woman in Witness Protection
MOVIE • 1997