Yoji Matsuda
Born: 1967-10-19 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2022
- Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss! as Kawahara
2021
- Character as Atsushi Henmi
2017
- Ninsho as Teishi Tomo
2015
2006
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time as Sojiro Takase (voice)
- A Spirit of the Sun as Genichirō Ryū (voice)
2004
- The Hidden Blade
- The Motive as Rich young man
2002
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex as MacLachlan Marshall (voice)
2000
- The Stupid Teacher as Young soldier
1997
- Princess Mononoke as Ashitaka (voice)
1996
- Scan Doll as Katsumi
1994
1993
- Haruka, Nostalgia as Hiroshi Saitoh
1988
- Dogra Magra as Ichiro Kure
- The Glorious Asuka Gang! as Kasuga
- The Discarnates as Script Reading
1987
1986
1985
- Takeshi-kun, Hai! as Shujiro Nishino
1984
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as Asbel (voice)
1983
- Oshin as Yuu
1975
- Kamen Rider Amazon: The Movie as Masahiko Okamura
1974
- Kamen Rider Amazon as Masahiko Okamura
1971
- Kamen Rider as Masahiko Okamura