Ryuhei Matsuda
Acting
Born: May 9, 1983 (age 43) · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Highest Rated
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. Since then, Matsuda has continued to work steadily across film and television. His notable award-winning period remains centered on his earlier career — most notably his Best Actor win at the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2013 for The Great Passage, alongside a Best Actor win at the 2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival in 2019 for the film Shadow. More recently, his credits include the films Ichigeki (2023), Who Were We? (2023–2024), and Transcending Dimensions (2025). On television, he starred in the Netflix drama Asura (2025), based on Kazuo Kikuta's play, and in Tokyo Salad Bowl (2025). His film Disaster was released on February 20, 2026, and was also selected for the competition section of the San Sebastián Film Festival. In January 2026, Matsuda took on his first-ever leading role in a TV Asahi drama with Hey Detective, Your Backpack Is Open! He also appeared in UNDERGIRL a first movie from UNDERCOVER production, a superhero film released in Shibuya.
Known for
Isle of Dogs
2018
The Raid 2
2014
Taboo
1999
Blue Spring
2001
Nana
2005
Izo
2004
Before We Vanish
2017
Cutie Honey
2004
Nightmare Detective
2007
The Great Passage
2013
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006
9 Souls
2003
Photos (7)
Movies (66)
Isle of Dogs
Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
The Raid 2
Keiichi
Taboo
Sozaburo Kano
A Chorus of Angels
Isamu
Nana
Ren Honjou
Unreachable
2025
Blue Spring
Kujo
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Tomoyuki
Sai: Disaster
2026
Before We Vanish
Shinji Kase
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Ikuta
9 Souls
Michiru Kaneko
Disconcerto
Haruhiko Gyoten
Otakus in Love
Mon Aoki
Tada's Do-It-All House
Haruhiko Gyoten
ZOKKI
Fujimura
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Shoji Segawa
Love Ghost
Shibayama Ryuske
Nightmare Detective
Kyoichi Kagenuma
Cutie Honey
NSA Client
Izo
His Highness
Karaoke Terror
Ishihara
The Magnificent Nine
Moku Kayaba
Beneath the Shadow
Hiasa Norihiro
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Kawasaki
Rampo Noir
Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime
Boys on the Run
Aoyama
Age 17
Book Boy
The Suicide Song
Riku Nagase
Detective in the Bar
Takada
My Uncle
Uncle
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Zenjiro Ikeda
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Tatsuji
The Scythian Lamb
Ichirō Miyakoshi
Phone Call to the Bar
Takada
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Nobody To Watch Over Me
Shogo Mishima
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Shibata Katsuie
Collage of Our Lives
Masato Segawa
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Jun Ariyoshi
I'm Flash!
Bodyguard
The Secret Battlefield
2026
Ichigeki
Shimada Konosuke
Synesthesia
Kaoru Homura
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Shuichi
Nightmare Detective 2
Kyoichi Kagenuma
Demon Pond
2005
Transcending Dimensions
Shinno
The Last Shot in the Bar
Takada
The Mohican Comes Home
Eikichi Tamura
The Vulture
Osamu Nishino
Who Were We?
Ao
Kanikôsen
Shinjo
Run Ichiro Run
Ryu Mochizuki
The Day of Destruction
Mr. Shinno
Wolf's Calling
Samurai
My Little Sweet Pea
Norio Koiwa
Tokyo Serendipity
Takashi Ohno
UNDERGIRL
UNDERMAN
Chosyu Five
Yozo Yamao
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
A Farewell to Jinu
Takeharu Takami
A Stranger in Shanghai
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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
TV Shows (20)
Amachan
Takuma Mizuguchi · 157 eps
Asura
Shizuo Katsumata · 7 eps
My Dear Exes
Hassaku Tanaka · 10 eps
Tokyo Salad Bowl
Ryo Arikino · 9 eps
Sai
Shinichiro Kuramoto · 6 eps
Weakest Beast
Kosei Nemoto · 10 eps
Tada's Do-It-All House
Gyoten Haruhiko · 12 eps
Quartet
Tsukasa Beppu · 10 eps
Smoking
Sakakibara Masayuki · 12 eps
Natsuko Kira
Keisuke Takagi · 10 eps
Uzukawamura Incident
Iwamori Akira · 6 eps
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
Osamu Nishino · 6 eps
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
Yashiro Heita · 11 eps
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
Numakura Koichi · 6 eps
0.5 Man
Tachibana Masaharu · 5 eps
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
Ichinose Yosuke · 8 eps
歪んだ波紋
8 eps
Distorted Ripples
Masahiko Sawamura · 8 eps
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku · 10 eps
Dōki
Ryouta Udagawa · 1 eps
