Raita Ryū

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.

Raita Ryū
竜 雷太
Born	Tatsuo Hasegawa (1940-01-21) January 21, 1940 (age 85) 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

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]