Ryuhei Matsuda
Acting
Born May 9, 1983 · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Films (66)
Sai: Disaster
2026
Unreachable
2025
Transcending Dimensions
2025
Who Were We?
2024
Ichigeki
2023
ZOKKI
2021
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021
The Day of Destruction
2020
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019
Beneath the Shadow
2019
Wolf's Calling
2019
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Isle of Dogs
2018
The Scythian Lamb
2018
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017
Before We Vanish
2017
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017
My Uncle
2016
The Magnificent Nine
2016
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
A Farewell to Jinu
2015
Disconcerto
2014
The Raid 2
2014
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
Detective in the Bar 2
2013
The Great Passage
2013
A Chorus of Angels
2012
I'm Flash!
2012
Phone Call to the Bar
2011
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011
Boys on the Run
2010
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Kanikôsen
2009
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
The Vulture
2009
大パルコ人①メカロックオペラ「R2C2～サイボーグなのでバンド辞めます！～」
2009
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009
Can't Protect Anyone
2009
Nightmare Detective 2
2008
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
The Suicide Song
2007
Tokyo Serendipity
2007
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007
Nightmare Detective
2007
Chosyu Five
2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006
Nana
2005
Demon Pond
2005
Rampo Noir
2005
Synesthesia
2005
Otakus in Love
2004
Izo
2004
Cutie Honey
2004
Karaoke Terror
2003
Happiness in August
2003
9 Souls
2003
Age 17
2003
Collage of Our Lives
2003
Blue Spring
2001
Run Ichiro Run
2001
Love Ghost
2001
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
Taboo
1999