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.
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 (5)
Movies (65)
Isle of Dogs
Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
The Raid 2
Keiichi
Cutie Honey
NSA Client
Blue Spring
Kujo
Kanikôsen
Shinjo
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Tatsuji
Taboo
Sozaburo Kano
Nana
Ren Honjou
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Tomoyuki
Before We Vanish
Shinji Kase
Unreachable
2025
Transcending Dimensions
Shinno
Detective in the Bar
Takada
Izo
His Highness
The Last Shot in the Bar
Takada
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Jun Ariyoshi
The Magnificent Nine
Moku Kayaba
The Secret Battlefield
2026
Rampo Noir
Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Age 17
Book Boy
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Kawasaki
Beneath the Shadow
Hiasa Norihiro
Tada's Do-It-All House
Haruhiko Gyoten
The Scythian Lamb
Ichirō Miyakoshi
Phone Call to the Bar
Takada
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Ikuta
ZOKKI
Fujimura
Who Were We?
Ao
Sai: Disaster
2026
The Day of Destruction
Mr. Shinno
Nightmare Detective
Kyoichi Kagenuma
Otakus in Love
Mon Aoki
Karaoke Terror
Ishihara
A Chorus of Angels
Isamu
I'm Flash!
Bodyguard
Nightmare Detective 2
Kyoichi Kagenuma
Collage of Our Lives
Masato Segawa
9 Souls
Michiru Kaneko
The Mohican Comes Home
Eikichi Tamura
Synesthesia
Kaoru Homura
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Shoji Segawa
Love Ghost
Shibayama Ryuske
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Zenjiro Ikeda
Disconcerto
Haruhiko Gyoten
A Farewell to Jinu
Takeharu Takami
Tokyo Serendipity
Takashi Ohno
My Uncle
Uncle
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
My Little Sweet Pea
Norio Koiwa
The Vulture
Osamu Nishino
Boys on the Run
Aoyama
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Shibata Katsuie
Nobody To Watch Over Me
Shogo Mishima
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Run Ichiro Run
Ryu Mochizuki
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Shuichi
Ichigeki
Shimada Konosuke
Chosyu Five
Yozo Yamao
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
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
A Stranger in Shanghai
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Wolf's Calling
Samurai
The Suicide Song
Riku Nagase
Demon Pond
2005
TV Shows (18)
Amachan
Takuma Mizuguchi · 157 eps
Quartet
Tsukasa Beppu · 10 eps
Asura
Shizuo Katsumata · 7 eps
Weakest Beast
Kosei Nemoto · 10 eps
Tokyo Salad Bowl
Ryo Arikino · 9 eps
My Dear Exes
Hassaku Tanaka · 10 eps
0.5 Man
Tachibana Masaharu · 5 eps
Sai
Shinichiro Kuramoto · 6 eps
Tada's Do-It-All House
Gyoten Haruhiko · 12 eps
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
Ichinose Yosuke · 8 eps
Uzukawamura Incident
Iwamori Akira · 6 eps
Natsuko Kira
Keisuke Takagi · 10 eps
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
Numakura Koichi · 6 eps
Smoking
Sakakibara Masayuki · 12 eps
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
Osamu Nishino · 6 eps
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
Yashiro Heita · 11 eps
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku · 10 eps
歪んだ波紋
8 eps
