Raita Ryū

Japanese actor

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
Sanada Taiheiki (1985-1986) - Katō Kiyomasa
Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) - Date Sanemoto
Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi (1991-1994)
Hoshi no Kinka (1996) - Seiichirō Nagai
Unsolved Cases (1999) - Kōtarō Nonomura
Aoi (2000) - Gamō Satoie^[8]
Kokoro (2003) - Ikkoku Nakajima
The Man Who Can't Get Married (2006)
Fūrin Kazan (2007) - Amari Torayasu^[9]
Teppan (2010-2011) - Den Hasegawa
Gunshi Kanbei (2015) - Kuroda Shigetaka
Segodon (2018) - Zusho Hirosato
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (2023) - Keishō-in^[10]

References

^ NihonEiga Jinmei Jiten vol.2 P.908-909
^ "Ryu Taiyo ni Hoero!". Retrieved 10 August 2017.
^ 日本タレント名鑑'82 VIPタイムズ社、1981 P.223
^ "FIRST LOVE – A MEMORY IN SUMMER". JFDB. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^ "嘘八百京町ロワイヤル". eiga.com. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^ "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.
^ "フード・ラック！食運". eiga.com. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
^ "葵徳川三代". TV drama database. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
^ "風林火山の出演者・キャスト一覧". The Television. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
^ "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.