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Ryuhei Matsuda
ActorBorn May 9, 1983 (42 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | SAI (TV Series) · as 倉本慎一郎 |
| 2025 | Asura (TV Series) · as Shizuo Katsumata |
| 2025 | Tokyo Salad Bowl (TV Series) · as Ryo Arikino |
| 2024 | Give My Regards to Kenshirō (TV Series) · as Numakura Koichi |
| 2023 | 0.5 no Otoko (TV Series) · as Tachibana Masaharu |
| 2022 | The Case of Uzukawa Village (TV Series) · as Iwamori Akira |
| 2021 | My Dear Exes (TV Series) · as Hassaku Tanaka |
| 2020 | Zokki · as Fujimura |
| 2020 | The Day of Destruction · as Mr. Shinno |
| 2019 | Beneath the Shadow · as Hiasa Norihiro |
| 2019 | A Stranger in Shanghai · as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
| 2019 | Yuganda Hamon (TV Series) · as Sawamura Masahiko |
| 2019 | Noroshi ga yobu · as Samurai |
| 2019 | Idaten (TV Series) · as Kenzo Tange |
| 2018 | Weakest Beast (TV Series) · as Kosei Nemoto |
| 2018 | The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan · as Shoji Segawa |
| 2018 | Smoking (TV Series) · as Sakakibara Masayuki |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs · as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice) |
| 2017 | The Scythian Lamb · as Ichirō Miyakoshi |
| 2017 | The Last Shot in the Bar · as Takada |
| 2017 | The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter · as Zenjiro Ikeda |
| 2017 | Before We Vanish · as Shinji Kase |
| 2017 | Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue · as Tomoyuki |
| 2017 | Quartet (2017) (TV Series) · as Tsukasa Beppu |
| 2016 | My Uncle · as Uncle |
| 2016 | Sales Department Manager Natsuko Kira (TV Series) · as Keisuke Takagi |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Nine · as Moku Kayaba |
| 2016 | Totto TV (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2016 | The Mohican Comes Home · as Eikichi Tamura |
| 2015 | A Farewell to Jinu · as Takeharu Takami |
| 2014 | Tada's Do-It-All House: Disconcerto · as 行天春彦 |
| 2014 | The Raid 2 · as Keiichi |
| 2013 | My Little Sweet Pea · as Norio Koiwa |
| 2013 | Phone Call to the Bar 2 · as Takada |
| 2013 | The Great Passage · as Mitsuya Majime |
| 2013 | Amachan (TV Series) · as 水口琢磨 |
| 2013 | Mahoro Ekimae Bangaichi (TV Series) · as Gyoten Haruhiko |
| 2012 | A Chorus of Angels · as Isamu |
| 2012 | I'm Flash! · as Bodyguard |
| 2011 | The Detective Is in the Bar · as Takada |
| 2011 | Tada's Do-It-All House · as Haruhiko Gyoten |
| 2011 | Douki · as Cast |
| 2010 | Boys on the Run · as Aoyama |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Kanikôsen · as Shinjo |
| 2009 | Mt. Tsurugidake · as Ikuta |
| 2009 | The Vulture · as Osamu Nishino |
| 2009 | Heart of a Samurai (TV Series) · as Masamune Date |
| 2008 | Nobody to Watch Over Me · as Shogo Mishima |
| 2008 | Nightmare Detective 2 · as Kyoichi Kagenuma |
| 2008 | Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (TV Series) · as Yashiro Heita |
| 2007 | Life Can Be So Wonderful · as Shuichi |
| 2007 | The Suicide Song · as Riku Nagase |
| 2007 | Tokyo Serendipity · as Takashi Ohno |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | The yakiniku mûbî: Purukogi · as Tatsuji |
| 2006 | Chosyu Five · as Yozo Yamao |
| 2006 | Big Bang Love, Juvenile A · as Jun Ariyoshi |
| 2006 | Nightmare Detective · as Kyoichi Kagenuma |
| 2005 | Rampo Noir · as Tarô Hirai (segment "caterpillar") |
| 2005 | Nana · as Ren Honjou |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Synesthesia · as Kaoru Homura |
| 2004 | Otakus in Love · as Mon Aoki |
| 2004 | Izo · as His Highness |
| 2004 | Cutie Honey · as Nsa Client |
| 2003 | Shôwa kayô daizenshû · as Ishihara |
| 2003 | 9 Souls · as Michiru Kaneko |
| 2003 | Love Collage · as Masato Segawa |
| 2001 | Blue Spring · as Kujo |
| 2001 | Love Ghost · as Shibayama Ryuuhei |
| 1999 | Taboo · as Sozaburo Kano |