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Daisuke Ryū
Known for: ActingDaisuke 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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Ran
as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji 
Kagemusha
as Nobunaga Oda 
Rinjo
as Haruhisa Nabdo 
Bayside Shakedown
as Obayashi 
Time Trip App
as Toshizo Yamashita 
Fireflies in the North
as Nagakura 
Lake of Illusions
as Nagao 
Woman in Witness Protection
as Religious Cult Leader 
Twelve Months
as Officer (voice) 
Ultraman: The Next
as Kazusa Sogabe 
Zero Woman: Dangerous Game
as Mutoh 
Zero Woman Returns
as Mutoh 
Graveyard of Honor
as Tadaaki Kuze 
Zero Woman: The Hunted
as Mutoh 
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
as Densuke Tsuchiya 
The Law of Hell
as Sadashichi 