Daisuke Ban is a graduate of Saitama-Ken Senior High School. After making his debut in OUMUTO NI WATORI (1971), he got his first starring role as the android Jiroo in the popular TV series "Jinzo ningen kikaidaa" (1972). Since then, he starred in other superhero shows including INAZUMAN (1973), NINJA CAPTOR (1976) and BATTLE FEVER J (1979), as well as action shows like SPECIAL INVESTIGATION FRONTLINE. To this day, Daisuke also attends sci-fi and comic-book conventions in Japan to greet fans of the shows he starred in.
Hobbies include reading, film appreciation, music, and singing.Due to problems after KIKAIDER, Daisuke Ban had his stage name changed to "Naoya Ban" up until the mid-90s.A month after Shoutarou Ishinomori (the creator of KIKAIDER, INAZUMAN, etc) passed away in 1998, there was a rumor (mostly on the Internet) that Daisuke Ban died of a heart attack while having sex with a prostitute. The rumor, of course, was untrue.
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The prequel to the horror film Ringu, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her. Meanwhile, a reporter investigating Sadako's spiritualist mother thinks there's something very suspicious about the young woman, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just as a series of strange deaths start sweeping through the drama club.