Ryuhei Matsuda
Acting
Born: 1983-05-09 in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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
Isle of Dogs
Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
Amachan
Takuma Mizuguchi
The Raid 2
Keiichi
Tokyo Salad Bowl
Ryo Arikino
My Dear Exes
Hassaku Tanaka
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Tatsuji
Taboo
Sozaburo Kano
Asura
Shizuo Katsumata
Phone Call to the Bar
Takada
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
Ichinose Yosuke
Quartet
Tsukasa Beppu
Cutie Honey
NSA Client
Blue Spring
Kujo
Weakest Beast
Kosei Nemoto
Sai
Shinichiro Kuramoto
Tada's Do-It-All House
Gyoten Haruhiko
0.5 Man
Tachibana Masaharu
Izo
His Highness
Natsuko Kira
Keisuke Takagi
Rampo Noir
Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Nana
Ren Honjou
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
Osamu Nishino
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
Yashiro Heita
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
Numakura Koichi
The Scythian Lamb
Ichirō Miyakoshi
Unreachable
Before We Vanish
Shinji Kase
Uzukawamura Incident
Iwamori Akira
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Ikuta
Beneath the Shadow
Hiasa Norihiro
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Kawasaki
Smoking
Sakakibara Masayuki
I'm Flash!
Bodyguard
Transcending Dimensions
Shinno
Nightmare Detective
Kyoichi Kagenuma
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime
Otakus in Love
Mon Aoki
A Farewell to Jinu
Takeharu Takami
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Jun Ariyoshi
