Ryuhei Matsuda
Born: 1983-05-09 in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
2025
- Unreachable
- Transcending Dimensions as Shinno
- Asura as Shizuo Katsumata
- Tokyo Salad Bowl as Ryo Arikino
- Sai as Shinichiro Kuramoto
2024
- Who Were We? as Ao
2023
- Ichigeki as Shimada Konosuke
- 0.5 Man as Tachibana Masaharu
- Give My Regards to Kenshirō as Numakura Koichi
2022
- Uzukawamura Incident as Iwamori Akira
2021
- ZOKKI as Fujimura
- Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord as Shibata Katsuie
- My Dear Exes as Hassaku Tanaka
- Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
2020
- The Day of Destruction as Mr. Shinno
2019
- Beneath the Shadow as Hiasa Norihiro
- Wolf's Calling as Samurai
- A Stranger in Shanghai as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 歪んだ波紋
2018
- Isle of Dogs as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
- The Scythian Lamb as Ichirō Miyakoshi
- The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan as Shoji Segawa
- Smoking as Sakakibara Masayuki
- Weakest Beast as Kosei Nemoto
2017
- The Last Shot in the Bar as Takada
- Before We Vanish as Shinji Kase
- The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue as Tomoyuki
- Quartet as Tsukasa Beppu
- Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter as Zenjiro Ikeda
2016
- My Uncle as Uncle
- The Mohican Comes Home as Eikichi Tamura
- The Magnificent Nine as Moku Kayaba
- Natsuko Kira as Keisuke Takagi
2015
- A Farewell to Jinu as Takeharu Takami
2014
- The Raid 2 as Keiichi
- Disconcerto as Haruhiko Gyoten
2013
- Amachan as 水口琢磨
- Detective in the Bar 2 as Takada
- The Great Passage as Mitsuya Majime
- My Little Sweet Pea as Norio Koiwa
- Tada's Do-It-All House as Gyoten Haruhiko
2012
- A Chorus of Angels as Isamu
- I'm Flash! as Bodyguard
2011
- Phone Call to the Bar as Takada
- Tada's Do-It-All House as Haruhiko Gyoten
2010
- Boys on the Run as Aoyama
2009
- The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Ikuta
- Nobody To Watch Over Me as Shogo Mishima
- Kanikôsen as Shinjo
- The Vulture as Osamu Nishino
- Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
- Can't Protect Anyone
- SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2008
- Nightmare Detective 2 as Kyoichi Kagenuma
- Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow as Yashiro Heita
2007
- The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as Tatsuji
- Life Can Be So Wonderful as Shuichi
- The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker as Kawasaki
- The Suicide Song as Riku Nagase
- Tokyo Serendipity as Takashi Ohno
- Nightmare Detective as Kyoichi Kagenuma
- Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth as Osamu Nishino
2006
- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Jun Ariyoshi
- Chosyu Five as Yozo Yamao
2005
- Nana as Ren Honjou
- Demon Pond
- Synesthesia as Kaoru Homura
- Rampo Noir as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
2004
- Cutie Honey as NSA Client
- Otakus in Love as Mon Aoki
- Izo as His Highness
2003
- Collage of Our Lives as Masato Segawa
- Karaoke Terror as Ishihara
- Age 17 as Book Boy
- 9 Souls as Michiru Kaneko
- Happiness in August
2001
- Blue Spring as Kujo
- Love Ghost as Shibayama Ryuske
- Run Ichiro Run as Ryu Mochizuki
1999
- Taboo as Sozaburo Kano