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