Raita Ryū

Raita Ryū
竜 雷太
Born	Tatsuo Hasegawa (1940-01-21) January 21, 1940 (age 84) Minoh, Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–present
Agent	Art Promotion
Family	Yōhei Hasegawa (son)
Website	www.art-promotion.jp/prof_male01_ryu.html

Raita Ryu (竜 雷太, Ryū Raita, born January 21, 1940 in Osaka as Tatsuo Hasegawa (長谷川 龍男, Hasegawa Tatsuo)) is a Japanese actor. He is well known for his role as Gorisan (Detective Ishizuka) in Taiyō ni Hoero!.[1][2] He has a son Yōhei Hasegawa (長谷川 陽平, Hasegawa Yōhei), who is a musician and guitarist.

Once, he belonged to Toshiro Mifune's production company.[3]

Selected filmography

Films

• Moero! Seishun (1968) - Raita Ejima
• The Bullet Train (1975) - Kikuchi
• Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978) - Detective Hashikawa
• G.I. Samurai (1979) - Haruhisa Kimura
• Station (1981)
• Sukkari... sono ki de! (1981) - Detective
• Kizudarake no Kunshō (1986) - Toshima
• Tokyo Blackout (1987) - Horie
• Kanbakku (1990)
• Isan Sōzoku (1990) - Motoharu Fujishima
• Rainbow Kids (1991) - Sakuma
• Tsuribaka Nisshi (1994-1998) - Chief of Personnel Haraguchi
• Oishinbo (1996)
• Hana no oedo no Tsuribaka Nisshi (1998)
• Keizoku: The Movie (2000) - Kōtarō Nonomura
• Happily Ever After (2007)
• 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008) - Chō-san
• First Love: A Memory in Summer (2009)[4]
• Hanjiro (2010)
• Homecoming (2011) - Tadashi Ohshima
• SPEC: Ten (2012) - Kotaro Nonomura
• SPEC: Close (2013) - Nonomura Kotaro
• A Banana? At This Time of Night? (2018) - Kiyoshi Kano
• We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous (2019) - Manzo Okuno[5]
• Hope (2020)[6]
• Food Luck (2020)[7]
• What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (2021)

Television

• Taiyō ni Hoero! (1972-1982) - Ishizuka "Gori-san" Makoto
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) - Tenkai[8]
• Sanada Taiheiki (1985-1986) - Katō Kiyomasa[9]
• Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) - Date Sanemoto[10]
• Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi (1991-1994)
• Hoshi no Kinka (1996) - Seiichirō Nagai
• Unsolved Cases (1999) - Kōtarō Nonomura
• Aoi (2000) - Gamō Satoie[11]
• Kokoro (2003) - Ikkoku Nakajima
• The Man Who Can't Get Married (2006)
• Fūrin Kazan (2007) - Amari Torayasu[12]
• Teppan (2010-2011) - Den Hasegawa
• Gunshi Kanbei (2015) - Kuroda Shigetaka[13]
• Segodon (2018) - Zusho Hirosato[14]
• Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (2023) - Keishō-in[15]

References

1. NihonEiga Jinmei Jiten vol.2 P.908-909
2. "Ryu Taiyo ni Hoero!". Retrieved 10 August 2017.
3. 日本タレント名鑑'82 VIPタイムズ社、1981 P.223
4. "FIRST LOVE – A MEMORY IN SUMMER". JFDB. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
5. "嘘八百 京町ロワイヤル". eiga.com. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
6. "岡田健史＆清原果耶、堤真一＆石田ゆり子演じる"夫婦"の子に『望み』10月公開". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
7. "フード・ラック！食運". eiga.com. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
8. "徳川家康". Haiyaku Jiten (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 December 2024.
9. "真田太平記". Haiyaku Jiten (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 December 2024.
10. "独眼竜政宗". Haiyaku Jiten (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 December 2024.
11. "葵 徳川三代". TV drama database. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
12. "風林火山の出演者・キャスト一覧". The Television. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
13. "軍師官兵衛". Haiyaku Jiten (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 December 2024.
14. "西郷どん". Haiyaku Jiten (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 December 2024.
15. "NHK「大奥」綱吉(仲里依紗)の妖艶すぎる濃厚シーンに視聴者衝撃「かなり攻めてた!」「NHKは絶対NGだと思ってた描写が…」". Sanspo. Retrieved February 24, 2023.

External links

• Official profile (in Japanese)
• Raita Ryū at IMDb