Ryuhei Matsuda

Known for ActingBorn 1983-05-09 (age 43)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.Read more

Movies & web series

歪んだ波紋

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

Unreachable

A Stranger in Shanghai

0.5 Man

Run Ichiro Run

Amachan

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord

My Dear Exes

Quartet

Tokyo Salad Bowl

Asura

Give My Regards to Kenshirō

The Vulture

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

Transcending Dimensions

Sai

Isle of Dogs

The Last Shot in the Bar

Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!

The Raid 2

Tada's Do-It-All House

Detective in the Bar

Uzukawamura Incident

ZOKKI

The Great Passage

Phone Call to the Bar

Sai: Disaster

Blue Spring

Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Natsuko Kira

A Chorus of Angels

Smoking

Life Can Be So Wonderful

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

Wolf's Calling

Nana

Demon Pond

Before We Vanish

Tada's Do-It-All House

Taboo

My Uncle

Disconcerto

9 Souls

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity