Daisuke Ryū
Birthday: 1957-02-14
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daisuke Ryu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Bayside Shakedown
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierar...
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Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
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Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhis...
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The Legend of the Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Genji Sokabe (Hakuryu) is a legendary hit-man who has just finished a 15-year prison stretch for kil...
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Zero Woman Returns
Rei, whose undercover role is so guarded that there is no written record of her identity, is well kn...
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Joshi Camera
Miki (Kaoru Mitsumune), Aya (Mika Kumagai), Megumi (Miyako Takayama) and Haruka (Yukiyo Sono) are fr...
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Solitary Scream
Heinous. Two wolves haunted by the past. Can you hear the gunshot?-Is it his voice?- Starring: Ichiz...
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Baian Fujieda the Assassin
An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujie...
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Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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The Law of Hell
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Black Jack
Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of ...
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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born ...
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Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
Blackjack's surgery was to save Dr. Summit, a surgeon infected with a mysterious infectious disease....
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II...
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Ultraman: The Next
First Lieutenant Shun'ichi Maki of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is a prestigious F-15 Eagle jet ...
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Zero Woman: The Hunted
A woman with no past or identity, Rei is a gorgeous undercover agent for the Zero Department, a dead...
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Twelve Months
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. On...
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Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Depar...
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The Legend of Sayo
Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back ...
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The Last Message
Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial mur...
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Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fe...
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The Tale of Himeji Castle
A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime pu...
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Time Trip App
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo....
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Legend of the Assassin
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The Great Jailbreak
Kitahara (Hitoshi Ozawa) is a prisoner who is obsessed with escaping from prison. He is a born escap...
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Agitator
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long befor...
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Gassoh
In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fi...
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Tangerines on Cat
Tomohiro takes his fiance Machiko to his hometown of Aridagawa in Wakayama Prefecture to see his fam...
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Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
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Shadow Hunters
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You Dance with the Summer
Shinpei (Junpei Mizobata) dreams of being a professional cameraman and lives in Tokyo. One day, he h...
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Shura Group Part 3
Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the e...
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Shura Group Part 2
Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the cont...
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Legend of the Devil
A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family...
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The Orphaned Geisha
Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture...
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The Mamushi
Tobikantaro has just been released from prison and is greeted by his younger brother Kakuji. Togethe...
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Lake of Illusions
A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running ...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...
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Nezulla the Rat Monster
A Japanese Company funded by the USA experimenting with anti-bacteriological weapons creates a mutat...
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The Empty Table
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist k...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses ...
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I Will Never Forgive
A psychological drama about the consequences of a 15 year old girl's gang rape....
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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Woman in Witness Protection
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the b...
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Abare Bunya
Based on Tetsuya Saruwatari's manga series about a reporter who gets assigned to a serial murder cas...
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A Lone Scalpel
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operati...
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Wild Criminal
Tomoyo was the lover of Udo, a leading member of the Japanese mafia. When Udo disappears with a bund...
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Another XX: Matori Woman
4th Entry in a Four-Part-Series, following the success of the original XX-series with 7 parts: In th...
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Guard Dog
A tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who's been assigned as the bodyguard for ...
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Atami Murder Case
Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metr...
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Tokyo Wine Party People
Shino Sakuragi is an OL. She attends a wine party recommended by her boss, even though she isn't com...
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Metropolis
In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsa...
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Succession
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing i...
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Scorpion: Double Venom 2
Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obses...
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Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plan...
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Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film serie...
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Yakuza Jihad
The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of S...
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Yakuza Jihad 2
The second installment of the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the origin...
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Yakuza Jihad 3
The third installment of the hard-line action OV "Gokudo Seisen" series, which presents the original...
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Anticipation
Todo, an old wealthy man, is fascinated by the appearance of Sayumi walking in the graveyard in mids...
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Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 1
The powerful organization Fifth-Generation Tōdō-gumi, based in Osaka’s Minami district, is led by Wa...
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Challenge to Ambition: Chapter 2
Ōtani Ryūzō (Ryu Daisuke), head of the Ōtani-gumi within the Tōdō-gumi, is stripped of his position ...
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Challenge to Ambition: Final Chapter
The Katsumata-gumi, based in Nishinomiya, becomes outraged by the Serizawa-gumi's brazen expansion o...
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Trinacria: Porsche 959
A film director plans to make a film about a man who embarks on a journey to find a missing musician...
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