Daisuke Ry?

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 Kurosawas 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 Ishiis critically acclaimed Gojoe Goj? 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia