Ryuhei Matsuda
Acting
1983-05-09 · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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
TheatersBYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる
2026 · Movie
TheatersThe Secret Battlefield
2026 · Movie
Sai: Disaster
2026 · Movie
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
2026 · Series
Sai
2025 · Series
Unreachable
2025 · Movie
Transcending Dimensions
2025 · Movie
Asura
2025 · Series
Tokyo Salad Bowl
2025 · Series
Who Were We?
2024 · Movie
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
2023 · Series
0.5 Man
2023 · Series
Ichigeki
2023 · Movie
Uzukawamura Incident
2022 · Series
My Dear Exes
2021 · Series
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
2021 · Series
ZOKKI
2021 · Movie
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021 · Movie
The Day of Destruction
2020 · Movie
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019 · Movie
Beneath the Shadow
2019 · Movie
歪んだ波紋
2019 · Series
Wolf's Calling
2019 · Movie
Weakest Beast
2018 · Series
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018 · Movie
Smoking
2018 · Series
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Movie
The Scythian Lamb
2018 · Movie
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017 · Movie
Before We Vanish
2017 · Movie
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017 · Movie
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017 · Movie
Quartet
2017 · Series
My Uncle
2016 · Movie
Natsuko Kira
2016 · Series
The Magnificent Nine
2016 · Movie
The Mohican Comes Home
2016 · Movie
A Farewell to Jinu
2015 · Movie
Disconcerto
2014 · Movie
The Raid 2
2014 · Movie
My Little Sweet Pea
2013 · Movie
Detective in the Bar
2013 · Movie
The Great Passage
2013 · Movie
Amachan
2013 · Series
Tada's Do-It-All House
2013 · Series
A Chorus of Angels
2012 · Movie
I'm Flash!
2012 · Movie
Phone Call to the Bar
2011 · Movie
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011 · Movie
Boys on the Run
2010 · Movie
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009 · Movie
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009 · Movie
Kanikôsen
2009 · Movie
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009 · Movie
The Vulture
2009 · Movie
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 · Movie
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009 · Movie
Can't Protect Anyone
2009 · Movie
Nightmare Detective 2
2008 · Movie
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
2008 · Series
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007 · Movie
Tokyo Serendipity
2007 · Movie
The Suicide Song
2007 · Movie
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007 · Movie
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007 · Movie
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
2007 · Series
Nightmare Detective
2007 · Movie
Chosyu Five
2006 · Movie
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Movie
Nana
2005 · Movie
Demon Pond
2005 · Movie
Rampo Noir
2005 · Movie
Synesthesia
2005 · Movie
Making of 9 Souls
2005 · Movie
Otakus in Love
2004 · Movie
Izo
2004 · Movie
Cutie Honey
2004 · Movie
Karaoke Terror
2003 · Movie
Happiness in August
2003 · Movie
9 Souls
2003 · Movie
Age 17
2003 · Movie
Collage of Our Lives
2003 · Movie
Blue Spring
2001 · Movie
Run Ichiro Run
2001 · Movie
Love Ghost
2001 · Movie
The 300 million yen robbery
2000 · Movie
Taboo
1999 · Movie