Cast & creator
Daisuke Ryū
Best known for Ran, Kagemusha, The Next Generation: Patlabor
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
Also known as: 隆大介, 장명남, 張明男
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1978–2021 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (84)
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Ran
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
1985
Kagemusha
Nobunaga Oda
1980
The Next Generation: Patlabor
2014
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Metropolis
Special Voice Appearance (voice)
2001
Rinjo
Haruhisa Nabdo
2009
Musashibo Benkei
Taira no Tomomori
1986
The Ginger Tree
Count Kentaro Kurihama
1989
Woman in Witness Protection
Religious Cult Leader
1997Onna Furin Kazan
1986
Fireflies in the North
Nagakura
1984
Bayside Shakedown
Obayashi
1998
Time Trip App
Toshizo Yamashita
2014
Anticipation
2019
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Koji Muranaka
1989
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
1993
Zero Woman Returns
Mutoh
1999
Twelve Months
Officer (voice)
1980
Another XX: Matori Woman
1998
Lake of Illusions
Nagao
1982
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Benkei
2001
The Empty Table
Akira Sawaki
1985
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
Semi: Nakanai Semi
2003
The Law of Hell
Sadashichi
1982
Ultraman: The Next
Kazusa Sogabe
2004
A Lone Scalpel
Tatematsu Detective
2010
Graveyard of Honor
Tadaaki Kuze
2002
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Densuke Tsuchiya
2021
Agitator
Ichimatsu
2001
Zero Woman: The Hunted
Mutoh
1997
Succession
Tadashi Senda
1992
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
Mutoh
1998
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Willful Murder
Maruyama
1981
I Will Never Forgive
2018
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Kokuhei Kusunoki
2019
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Self
2002
The Last Message
Bando
2012
Taikoki
Azai Nagamasa
1987
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
Katsuie Shibata
2007
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Obayashi
1995
Wild Criminal
Casino Customer #1
1999
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
2006
Yakuza Jihad
2002
Legend of the Devil
1996
Shadow Hunters
1983
Shura Group Part 3
2002
You Dance with the Summer
Shintaro Teramoto
2010闇からの叫び
1986
Black Jack
Black Jack
1996
Gassoh
2015
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Black Jack
1996
Yakuza Jihad 2
2002
Chaka 2
1999
Abare Bunya
1998
国東物語
1985
Atami Murder Case
Son of Onijima
1986
Legend of the Assassin
1984
Scorpion: Double Venom 2
1998
Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
2017
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
The Legend of Sayo
Takeo
1982
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
2009
Solitary Scream
2017
Mitabi no kaikyô
1995
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
The King of Minami: Special Ver.50
Domoto
2004
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
Black Jack
1996
Joshi Camera
2012
Shura Group Part 2
2002The Orphaned Geisha
Yuuki Shinichiro
1987
Nezulla the Rat Monster
Aso
2002
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
1999
Yakuza Jihad 3
2002
The Great Jailbreak
2002
Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
2009
Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
2009
Guard Dog
1997
Trinacria: Porsche 959
1987
Tokyo Wine Party People
Makita
2019
The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
2001
Tangerines on Cat
Shoichiro
2014