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Ryuhei Matsuda

Ryuhei Matsuda

Actor · Born 1983-05-09 · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

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Biography

Ryuhei Matsuda (松田 龍平, Matsuda Ryūhei, born 9 May 1983) is a Japanese film and television actor. Matsuda's best known film roles include the young and desirable samurai Sōzaburō Kanō in Taboo and the rock star Ren Honjo in Nana. At age 15, Matsuda was offered the role of the desirable young samurai Kanō Sōzaburō in Nagisa Ōshima's 1999 film Taboo. The role helped boost him from an entirely unknown actor to a film star, earning him a Japanese Academy award "Newcomer of the Year", as well as "Blue Ribbon", "Kinema Junpo", and "Yokohama Film Festival" Awards for the "Best New Actor". Since appearing in Taboo, Matsuda has played a wide range of roles, from the high school student Kujo in the 2001 film Blue Spring to the rock star Ren Honjo in the 2005 film Nana. In February 2013, it was revealed that Matsuda would play the part of a Japanese gangster in the sequel to the 2012 Indonesian film The Raid, named Berandal. In 2020 portrayed Ryūnosuke Akutagawa in the film A Stranger in Shanghai. It depicts Akutagawa's time in as a reporter in the city.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Isle of Dogs (2018) — Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
  2. The Raid 2 (2014) — Keiichi
  3. Taboo (1999) — Sozaburo Kano
  4. Blue Spring (2001) — Kujo
  5. Nana (2005) — Ren Honjou
  6. Izo (2004) — His Highness
  7. Before We Vanish (2017) — Shinji Kase
  8. Cutie Honey (2004) — NSA Client
  9. Nightmare Detective (2007) — Kyoichi Kagenuma
  10. The Great Passage (2013) — Mitsuya Majime
  11. Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) — Jun Ariyoshi
  12. 9 Souls (2003) — Michiru Kaneko
  13. Quartet (2017) — Tsukasa Beppu
  14. Nightmare Detective 2 (2008) — Kyoichi Kagenuma
  15. Rampo Noir (2005) — Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
  16. Asura (2025) — Shizuo Katsumata
  17. The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) — Tomoyuki
  18. My Dear Exes (2021) — Hassaku Tanaka
  19. Tada's Do-It-All House (2011) — Haruhiko Gyoten
  20. The Scythian Lamb (2018) — Ichirō Miyakoshi
  21. The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007) — Kawasaki
  22. The Day of Destruction (2020) — Mr. Shinno
  23. Phone Call to the Bar (2011) — Takada
  24. Tada's Do-It-All House (2013) — Gyoten Haruhiko
  25. Boys on the Run (2010) — Aoyama
  26. A Chorus of Angels (2012) — Isamu
  27. 0.5 Man (2023) — Tachibana Masaharu
  28. Amachan (2013) — Takuma Mizuguchi
  29. Smoking (2018) — Sakakibara Masayuki
  30. Karaoke Terror (2003) — Ishihara
  31. The Mohican Comes Home (2016) — Eikichi Tamura
  32. The Magnificent Nine (2016) — Moku Kayaba
  33. Unreachable (2025)
  34. Collage of Our Lives (2003) — Masato Segawa
  35. Love Ghost (2001) — Shibayama Ryuske
  36. Tokyo Serendipity (2007) — Takashi Ohno
  37. Detective in the Bar (2013) — Takada
  38. Beneath the Shadow (2019) — Hiasa Norihiro
  39. Tokyo Salad Bowl (2025) — Ryo Arikino
  40. I'm Flash! (2012) — Bodyguard