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Yoji Matsuda
ActorBorn October 19, 1967 (57 years)
Yoji Matsuda (松田 洋治, Matsuda Yōji, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.
He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974.
He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata). He appeared in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, and, in 1987, portrayed the main character Shuna in Shuna's Journey. In 1997, he voiced Ashitaka in the anime movie Princess Mononoke, and voiced Leonardo DiCaprio's role Jack Dawson in the American film Titanic to raise his profile. In 2006, he taught acting as a lecturer at Tokyo Animation College. He became active around the stage, working with directors such as Yukio Ninagawa and Yoji Aoi. He appeared in the drama From the North Country.
He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974.
He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata). He appeared in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, and, in 1987, portrayed the main character Shuna in Shuna's Journey. In 1997, he voiced Ashitaka in the anime movie Princess Mononoke, and voiced Leonardo DiCaprio's role Jack Dawson in the American film Titanic to raise his profile. In 2006, he taught acting as a lecturer at Tokyo Animation College. He became active around the stage, working with directors such as Yukio Ninagawa and Yoji Aoi. He appeared in the drama From the North Country.
Filmography
| 2022 | Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss! (TV Series) · as Kawahara |
| 2021 | Character · as Atsushi Henmi |
| 2017 | Red Beard (TV Series) · as Matsuzou |
| 2016 | Destiny-Like Love (TV Series) · as Editor-In-Chief |
| 2016 | Tokyo MPD - From ZERO to HERO (TV Series) · as Shigemitsu Komatsubara |
| 2015 | Seven Detectives (TV Series) |
| 2015 | Tunnel of Love · as Cast |
| 2014 | Zenmô no Boku ga Bengoshi ni Natta Riyû · as Cast |
| 2009 | 14-sai no harawata · as Wataru's Father |
| 2009 | Rinjo (TV Series) · as Shinji Tobari |
| 2008 | Kabei: Our Mother · as Shimazaki |
| 2006 | I Carry the Ticket of Eternity · as Man |
| 2006 | A Spirit of The Sun (TV Series) · as Genichirō Ryū (voice) |
| 2006 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time · as Sojiro Takase (voice) |
| 2004 | The Reason · as Rich Young Man |
| 2004 | |
| 2002 | Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV Series) · as Maclachlan Marshall (voice) |
| 2001 | Hojo Tokimune (TV Series) · as Emperor Kameyama |
| 2000 | AIBOU: Detective Duo (TV Series) · as Toshiyoshi Kawaji |
| 1999 | The Woman of S.R.I. (TV Series) · as Yosuke Maki |
| 1999 | The Old Man and the Sea · as (voice) |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke · as Ashitaka (voice) |
| 1996 | Scan Doll · as Katsumi |
| 1996 | Ultraman Tiga (TV Series) · as Adam |
| 1994 | |
| 1993 | Haruka, Nostalgia · as Hiroshi Saitoh |
| 1990 | Tales of the Unusual (TV Series) · as (segment "shinrei Shashin") |
| 1988 | Dogra Magra · as Ichiro Kure |
| 1988 | The Discarnates · as Script Reading |
| 1988 | Hana no asuka gumi! · as Kasuga |
| 1987 | |
| 1985 | Sukeban Deka (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1984 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · as Asbel (voice) |
| 1983 | Oshin (TV Series) · as Yuu |
| 1980 | Magnitude 7.9 · as Ryûichi Kawazu (yôichi's Son) |
| 1978 | |
| 1976 | Kamen Rider Stronger: All Together! Seven Kamen Riders!! · as Masahiko Okamura |
| 1975 | Kamen Rider Amazon: The Movie · as Masahiko Okamura |
| 1974 | Kamen Rider Amazon (TV Series) · as Masahiko Okamura |
| 1974 | Ultraman leo (TV Series) · as Child At Picnic |
| 1973 | Kamen Rider V3 (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1971 | Kamen Rider (TV Series) · as Masahiko Okamura |