Acting · Tokyo, Japan · Born February 14, 1957
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
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as Densuke Tsuchiya
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as Makita
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2019
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as Kokuhei Kusunoki
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2018
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as Toshizo Yamashita
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as Bando
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as Tatematsu Detective
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as Haruhisa Nabdo
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as Katsuie Shibata
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2006
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2004
as Kazusa Sogabe
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as Domoto
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2003
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2002
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2002
as Aso
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as Self
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as Tadaaki Kuze
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as Ichimatsu
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as Benkei
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as Special Voice Appearance (voice)
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1999
as Mutoh
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1999
as Casino Customer #1
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1998
as Obayashi
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as Mutoh
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1997
as Mutoh
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as Religious Cult Leader
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1996
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as Black Jack
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as Black Jack
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1996
as Black Jack
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as Tadashi Senda
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1989
as Count Kentaro Kurihama
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as Koji Muranaka
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as Yuuki Shinichiro
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1986
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1986
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1985
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as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
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1985
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1984
as Nagakura
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1984
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1983
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1982
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1982
as Nagao
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1982
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1982
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1981
as Maruyama
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1980
as Nobunaga Oda
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1980
as Officer (voice)
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1979
MovieBandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
