Ryuhei Matsuda
Ryuhei Matsuda
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
81
Gender
Male
Birthday
1983-05-09 (42 years old)
Place of Birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Acting

2025

Asura as Shizuo Katsumata

2025

Tokyo Salad Bowl as Ryo Arikino

2025

Sai as Shinichiro Kuramoto

2024

Who Were We? as Ao

2023

Give My Regards to Kenshirō as Numakura Koichi

2023

0.5 Man as Tachibana Masaharu

2023

Ichigeki as Shimada Konosuke

2022

Uzukawamura Incident as Iwamori Akira

2021

My Dear Exes as Hassaku Tanaka

2021

ZOKKI as Fujimura

2020

Beneath the Shadow as Hiasa Norihiro

2020

The Day of Destruction as Mr. Shinno

2019

歪んだ波紋 as Not available

2019

A Stranger in Shanghai as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

2019

Wolf's Calling as Samurai

2018

Weakest Beast as Kosei Nemoto

2018

Smoking as Sakakibara Masayuki

2018

Isle of Dogs as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)

2018

The Scythian Lamb as Ichirō Miyakoshi

2018

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan as Shoji Segawa

2017

Quartet as Tsukasa Beppu

2017

Before We Vanish as Shinji Kase

2016

Natsuko Kira as Keisuke Takagi

2016

The Mohican Comes Home as Eikichi Tamura

2016

The Magnificent Nine as Moku Kayaba

2016

My Uncle as Uncle

2015

A Farewell to Jinu as Takeharu Takami

2014

The Raid 2 as Keiichi

2014

Disconcerto as Haruhiko Gyoten

2013

Amachan as 水口琢磨

2013

Tada's Do-It-All House as Gyoten Haruhiko

2013

The Great Passage as Mitsuya Majime

2013

My Little Sweet Pea as Norio Koiwa

2013

Detective in the Bar 2 as Takada

2012

A Chorus of Angels as Isamu

2012

I'm Flash! as Bodyguard

2011

Tada's Do-It-All House as Haruhiko Gyoten

2011

Phone Call to the Bar as Takada

2010

Boys on the Run as Aoyama

2009

Kanikôsen as Shinjo

2009

Nobody To Watch Over Me as Shogo Mishima

2009

The Vulture as Osamu Nishino

2009

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda as Not available

2009

Can't Protect Anyone as Not available

2008

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow as Yashiro Heita

2008

Nightmare Detective 2 as Kyoichi Kagenuma

2007

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth as Osamu Nishino

2007

The Suicide Song as Riku Nagase

2007

Nightmare Detective as Kyoichi Kagenuma

2007

Tokyo Serendipity as Takashi Ohno

2007

Life Can Be So Wonderful as Shuichi

2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Jun Ariyoshi

2006

Chosyu Five as Yozo Yamao

2005

Nana as Ren Honjou

2005

Rampo Noir as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")

2005

Demon Pond as Not available

2005

Synesthesia as Kaoru Homura

2004

Cutie Honey as NSA Client

2004

Izo as His Highness

2004

Otakus in Love as Mon Aoki

2003

9 Souls as Michiru Kaneko

2003

Karaoke Terror as Ishihara

2003

Age 17 as Book Boy

2003

Collage of Our Lives as Masato Segawa

2003

Happiness in August as Not available

2001

Blue Spring as Kujo

2001

Love Ghost as Shibayama Ryuuhei

2001

Run Ichiro Run as Ryu Mochizuki

2000

The 300 million yen robbery as Not available

1999

Taboo as Sozaburo Kano
Crew

2016

Natsuko Kira Creator