Ryuhei Matsuda
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1983-05-09 (42 years old)
Place of Birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Acting
(2025)
(2025)
Transcending Dimensions
as Shinno
(2024)
Who Were We?
as Ao
(2023)
Ichigeki
as Shimada Konosuke
(2021)
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
as Shibata Katsuie
(2021)
ZOKKI
as Fujimura
(2020)
Beneath the Shadow
as Hiasa Norihiro
(2020)
The Day of Destruction
as Mr. Shinno
(2019)
A Stranger in Shanghai
as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
(2019)
Wolf's Calling
as Samurai
(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)
Before We Vanish
as Shinji Kase
(2017)
(2017)
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
as Zenjiro Ikeda
(2017)
The Last Shot in the Bar
as Takada
(2016)
The Magnificent Nine
as Moku Kayaba
(2016)
The Mohican Comes Home
as Eikichi Tamura
(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)
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)
Nobody To Watch Over Me
as Shogo Mishima
(2009)
Kanikôsen
as Shinjo
(2009)
(2009)
The Vulture
as Osamu Nishino
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2008)
Nightmare Detective 2
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
(2007)
Tokyo Serendipity
as Takashi Ohno
(2007)
Life Can Be So Wonderful
as Shuichi
(2007)
The Suicide Song
as Riku Nagase
(2007)
(2007)
Nightmare Detective
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
(2007)
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
as Tatsuji
(2006)
Chosyu Five
as Yozo Yamao
(2006)
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Jun Ariyoshi
(2005)
Rampo Noir
as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
(2005)
Synesthesia
as Kaoru Homura
(2005)
(2005)
Nana
as Ren Honjou
(2004)
Izo
as His Highness
(2004)
Otakus in Love
as Mon Aoki
(2004)
Cutie Honey
as NSA Client
(2003)
Karaoke Terror
as Ishihara
(2003)
9 Souls
as Michiru Kaneko
(2003)
Collage of Our Lives
as Masato Segawa
(2003)
Age 17
as Book Boy
(2003)
(2001)
Blue Spring
as Kujo
(2001)
Run Ichiro Run
as Ryu Mochizuki
(2001)
Love Ghost
as Shibayama Ryuske
(2000)
(1999)
Taboo
as Sozaburo Kano