Ryuhei Matsuda

Ryuhei Matsuda

5/9/1983 (43 years old)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 (87 titles)

BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいるMovie

BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる

Takada · 2026

The Secret BattlefieldMovie

The Secret Battlefield

2026

Sai: Disaster7.0Movie

Sai: Disaster

2026

Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!7.5Show

Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!

Ichinose Yosuke · 2026

Sai7.8Show

Sai

Shinichiro Kuramoto · 2025

Unreachable8.5Movie

Unreachable

2025

Transcending Dimensions7.3Movie

Transcending Dimensions

Shinno · 2025

Asura8.0Show

Asura

Shizuo Katsumata · 2025

Tokyo Salad Bowl7.9Show

Tokyo Salad Bowl

Ryo Arikino · 2025

Who Were We?2.0Movie

Who Were We?

Ao · 2024

Give My Regards to Kenshirō7.9Show

Give My Regards to Kenshirō

Numakura Koichi · 2023

0.5 Man8.4Show

0.5 Man

Tachibana Masaharu · 2023

Ichigeki6.0Movie

Ichigeki

Shimada Konosuke · 2023

Uzukawamura Incident7.3Show

Uzukawamura Incident

Iwamori Akira · 2022

My Dear Exes8.0Show

My Dear Exes

Hassaku Tanaka · 2021

Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi7.0Show

Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi

田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku · 2021

ZOKKI7.3Movie

ZOKKI

Fujimura · 2021

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord8.0Movie

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord

Shibata Katsuie · 2021

The Day of Destruction5.5Movie

The Day of Destruction

Mr. Shinno · 2020

A Stranger in Shanghai8.5Movie

A Stranger in Shanghai

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · 2019

Beneath the Shadow5.5Movie

Beneath the Shadow

Hiasa Norihiro · 2019

歪んだ波紋9.0Show

歪んだ波紋

2019

Wolf's Calling6.6Movie

Wolf's Calling

Samurai · 2019

Weakest Beast5.7Show

Weakest Beast

Kosei Nemoto · 2018

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan7.0Movie

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Shoji Segawa · 2018

Smoking6.9Show

Smoking

Sakakibara Masayuki · 2018

Isle of Dogs7.8Movie

Isle of Dogs

Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice) · 2018

The Scythian Lamb6.1Movie

The Scythian Lamb

Ichirō Miyakoshi · 2018

The Last Shot in the Bar7.6Movie

The Last Shot in the Bar

Takada · 2017

Before We Vanish6.5Movie

Before We Vanish

Shinji Kase · 2017