Ryuhei Matsuda

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1983-05-09 (42 years old)

Place of Birth

Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

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...

Acting

2004

Cutie Honey

as NSA Client

1999

Taboo

as Sozaburo Kano

2007

The Suicide Song

as Riku Nagase

2023

Ichigeki

as Shimada Konosuke

2004

Izo

as His Highness

2001

2024

2005

Nana

as Ren Honjou

2007

Nightmare Detective

as Kyoichi Kagenuma

2003

Karaoke Terror

as Ishihara

2010

2008

Nightmare Detective 2

as Kyoichi Kagenuma

2006

Chosyu Five

as Yozo Yamao

2005

Synesthesia

as Kaoru Homura

2003

Collage of Our Lives

as Masato Segawa

2007

Tokyo Serendipity

as Takashi Ohno

2012

I'm Flash!

as Bodyguard

2013

The Great Passage

as Mitsuya Majime

2012

2009

Nobody To Watch Over Me

as Shogo Mishima

2014

The Raid 2

as Keiichi

2011

Tada's Do-It-All House

as Haruhiko Gyoten

2013

My Little Sweet Pea

as Norio Koiwa

2014

Disconcerto

as Haruhiko Gyoten

2003

9 Souls

as Michiru Kaneko

2009

Kanikôsen

as Shinjo

2001

Run Ichiro Run

as Ryu Mochizuki

2005

Rampo Noir

as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")

2001

Love Ghost

as Shibayama Ryuuhei

2003

Age 17

as Book Boy

2009

The Vulture

as Osamu Nishino

2015

A Farewell to Jinu

as Takeharu Takami

2004

Otakus in Love

as Mon Aoki

2016

The Mohican Comes Home

as Eikichi Tamura

2016

The Magnificent Nine

as Moku Kayaba

2018

The Scythian Lamb

as Ichirō Miyakoshi

2017

Before We Vanish

as Shinji Kase

2016

My Uncle

as Uncle

2018

Isle of Dogs

as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)

2020

Beneath the Shadow

as Hiasa Norihiro

2006

2020

2019

Wolf's Calling

as Samurai

2019

A Stranger in Shanghai

as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

2021

ZOKKI

as Fujimura

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