Ryuhei Matsuda
Acting • Born 1983-05-09
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.
Filmography
84 credits
Cutie Honey
Movie • 2004
NSA Client
Taboo
Movie • 1999
Sozaburo Kano
The Suicide Song
Movie • 2007
Riku Nagase
Ichigeki
Movie • 2023
Shimada Konosuke
Demon Pond
Movie • 2005
Izo
Movie • 2004
His Highness
Blue Spring
Movie • 2001
Kujo
Who Were We?
Movie • 2024
Ao
Nana
Movie • 2005
Ren Honjou
Nightmare Detective
Movie • 2007
Kyoichi Kagenuma
Karaoke Terror
Movie • 2003
Ishihara
Boys on the Run
Movie • 2010
Aoyama
Phone Call to the Bar
Movie • 2011
Takada
Nightmare Detective 2
Movie • 2008
Kyoichi Kagenuma
Chosyu Five
Movie • 2006
Yozo Yamao
Synesthesia
Movie • 2005
Kaoru Homura
Collage of Our Lives
Movie • 2003
Masato Segawa
Tokyo Serendipity
Movie • 2007
Takashi Ohno
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Movie • 2009
Ikuta
I'm Flash!
Movie • 2012
Bodyguard
The Great Passage
Movie • 2013
Mitsuya Majime
A Chorus of Angels
Movie • 2012
Isamu
Detective in the Bar 2
Movie • 2013
Takada
Nobody To Watch Over Me
Movie • 2009
Shogo Mishima
Tada's Do-It-All House
Movie • 2011
Haruhiko Gyoten
The Raid 2
Movie • 2014
Keiichi
My Little Sweet Pea
Movie • 2013
Norio Koiwa
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Movie • 2007
Kawasaki
Disconcerto
Movie • 2014
Haruhiko Gyoten
Transcending Dimensions
Movie • 2025
Shinno
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
Movie • 2009
9 Souls
Movie • 2003
Michiru Kaneko
Kanikôsen
Movie • 2009
Shinjo
Run Ichiro Run
Movie • 2001
Ryu Mochizuki
Rampo Noir
Movie • 2005
Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Movie • 2007
Tatsuji
Love Ghost
Movie • 2001
Shibayama Ryuske
Age 17
Movie • 2003
Book Boy
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Movie • 2007
Shuichi
Happiness in August
Movie • 2003
The Vulture
Movie • 2009
Osamu Nishino
The 300 million yen robbery
Movie • 2000
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Movie • 2021
Shibata Katsuie
A Farewell to Jinu
Movie • 2015
Takeharu Takami
Otakus in Love
Movie • 2004
Mon Aoki
Can't Protect Anyone
Movie • 2009
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Movie • 2009
The Mohican Comes Home
Movie • 2016
Eikichi Tamura
The Magnificent Nine
Movie • 2016
Moku Kayaba
The Scythian Lamb
Movie • 2018
Ichirō Miyakoshi
Before We Vanish
Movie • 2017
Shinji Kase
My Uncle
Movie • 2016
Uncle
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Movie • 2017
Tomoyuki
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Movie • 2018
Shoji Segawa
The Last Shot in the Bar
Movie • 2017
Takada
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Movie • 2017
Zenjiro Ikeda
Isle of Dogs
Movie • 2018
Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
Beneath the Shadow
Movie • 2019
Hiasa Norihiro
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Movie • 2006
Jun Ariyoshi
The Day of Destruction
Movie • 2020
Mr. Shinno
Wolf's Calling
Movie • 2019
Samurai
A Stranger in Shanghai
Movie • 2019
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
ZOKKI
Movie • 2021
Fujimura
Sai: Disaster
Movie • 2026
Unreachable
Movie • 2025
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！～」
Movie • 2009
My Dear Exes
TV • 2021
Hassaku Tanaka
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
TV • 2007
Osamu Nishino
Tada's Do-It-All House
TV • 2013
Gyoten Haruhiko
0.5 Man
TV • 2023
Tachibana Masaharu
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
TV • 2008
Yashiro Heita
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
TV • 2023
Numakura Koichi
Quartet
TV • 2017
Tsukasa Beppu
Natsuko Kira
TV • 2016
Keisuke Takagi
Amachan
TV • 2013
水口琢磨
Uzukawamura Incident
TV • 2022
Iwamori Akira
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
TV • 2021
田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
Weakest Beast
TV • 2018
Kosei Nemoto
Smoking
TV • 2018
Sakakibara Masayuki
歪んだ波紋
TV • 2019
Tokyo Salad Bowl
TV • 2025
Ryo Arikino
Asura
TV • 2025
Shizuo Katsumata
Sai
TV • 2025
Shinichiro Kuramoto
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
TV • 2026
Ichinose Yosuke