Actor

Daisuke Ryū

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Movies: 75Series: 5

TMDB ID: 70134

IMDb ID: nm0753480

Known for: Acting

Born: February 14, 1957

Died: April 11, 2021

Age: 64

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1978 - 2021

Years active: 44

Average TMDB rating: 6.73

Wikidata: Q5209656

Also known as

隆大介 • 장명남 • 張明男

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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.