Ryuhei Matsuda
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
All Movies (69)
- BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる2026 · as Takada
- Kaisen Zenya2026
- Sai: Disaster2026
- Unreachable2025
- Transcending Dimensions2025 · as Shinno
- Who Were We?2024 · as Ao
- Ichigeki2023 · as Shimada Konosuke
- ZOKKI2021 · as Fujimura
- Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord2021 · as Shibata Katsuie
- The Day of Destruction2020 · as Mr. Shinno
- A Stranger in Shanghai2019 · as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Beneath the Shadow2019 · as Hiasa Norihiro
- Wolf's Calling2019 · as Samurai
- The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan2018 · as Shoji Segawa
- Isle of Dogs2018 · as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
- The Scythian Lamb2018 · as Ichirō Miyakoshi
- The Last Shot in the Bar2017 · as Takada
- Before We Vanish2017 · as Shinji Kase
- Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter2017 · as Zenjiro Ikeda
- The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue2017 · as Tomoyuki
- My Uncle2016 · as Uncle
- The Magnificent Nine2016 · as Moku Kayaba
- The Mohican Comes Home2016 · as Eikichi Tamura
- A Farewell to Jinu2015 · as Takeharu Takami
- Disconcerto2014 · as Haruhiko Gyoten
- The Raid 22014 · as Keiichi
- My Little Sweet Pea2013 · as Norio Koiwa
- Detective in the Bar2013 · as Takada
- The Great Passage2013 · as Mitsuya Majime
- A Chorus of Angels2012 · as Isamu
- I'm Flash!2012 · as Bodyguard
- Phone Call to the Bar2011 · as Takada
- Tada's Do-It-All House2011 · as Haruhiko Gyoten
- Boys on the Run2010 · as Aoyama
- Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters2009
- SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda2009
- Kanikôsen2009 · as Shinjo
- The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity2009 · as Ikuta
- The Vulture2009 · as Osamu Nishino
- 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 Me2009 · as Shogo Mishima
- Can't Protect Anyone2009
- Nightmare Detective 22008 · as Kyoichi Kagenuma
- Life Can Be So Wonderful2007 · as Shuichi
- The Suicide Song2007 · as Riku Nagase
- Tokyo Serendipity2007 · as Takashi Ohno
- The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker2007 · as Kawasaki
- The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi2007 · as Tatsuji
- Nightmare Detective2007 · as Kyoichi Kagenuma
- Chosyu Five2006 · as Yozo Yamao
- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A2006 · as Jun Ariyoshi
- Nana2005 · as Ren Honjou
- Demon Pond2005
- Rampo Noir2005 · as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
- Synesthesia2005 · as Kaoru Homura
- Making of 9 Souls2005 · as Self
- Otakus in Love2004 · as Mon Aoki
- Izo2004 · as His Highness
- Cutie Honey2004 · as NSA Client
- Karaoke Terror2003 · as Ishihara
- Happiness in August2003
- 9 Souls2003 · as Michiru Kaneko
- Age 172003 · as Book Boy
- Collage of Our Lives2003 · as Masato Segawa
- Blue Spring2001 · as Kujo
- Run Ichiro Run2001 · as Ryu Mochizuki
- Love Ghost2001 · as Shibayama Ryuske
- The 300 million yen robbery2000
- Taboo1999 · as Sozaburo Kano
All TV Shows (18)
- Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!2026 · as Ichinose Yosuke
- Sai2025 · as Shinichiro Kuramoto
- Asura2025 · as Shizuo Katsumata
- Tokyo Salad Bowl2025 · as Ryo Arikino
- Give My Regards to Kenshirō2023 · as Numakura Koichi
- 0.5 Man2023 · as Tachibana Masaharu
- Uzukawamura Incident2022 · as Iwamori Akira
- My Dear Exes2021 · as Hassaku Tanaka
- Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi2021 · as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
- 歪んだ波紋2019
- Weakest Beast2018 · as Kosei Nemoto
- Smoking2018 · as Sakakibara Masayuki
- Quartet2017 · as Tsukasa Beppu
- Natsuko Kira2016 · as Keisuke Takagi
- Amachan2013 · as 水口琢磨
- Tada's Do-It-All House2013 · as Gyoten Haruhiko
- Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow2008 · as Yashiro Heita
- Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth2007 · as Osamu Nishino