Ryuhei Matsuda
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1983-05-09
Place of birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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Cast
Cutie Honey
2004
6.30
Taboo
1999
6.50
The Suicide Song
2007
5.20
Ichigeki
2023
6.00
Demon Pond
2005
6.60
Izo
2004
6.07
Blue Spring
2001
7.07
Who Were We?
2024
2.00
Nana
2005
6.72
Nightmare Detective
2007
6.00
Karaoke Terror
2003
5.60
Boys on the Run
2010
5.00
Phone Call to the Bar
2011
7.20
Nightmare Detective 2
2008
6.10
Chosyu Five
2006
6.00
Synesthesia
2005
3.70
Collage of Our Lives
2003
5.80
Tokyo Serendipity
2007
5.90
I'm Flash!
2012
6.20
The Great Passage
2013
7.25
A Chorus of Angels
2012
6.70
Detective in the Bar 2
2013
7.70
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009
6.10
The Raid 2
2014
7.60
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011
6.50
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
6.20
Disconcerto
2014
6.40
Transcending Dimensions
2025
7.80
9 Souls
2003
6.40
Kanikôsen
2009
6.20
Run Ichiro Run
2001
7.00
Rampo Noir
2005
5.60
Love Ghost
2001
5.70
Age 17
2003
0.00
Happiness in August
2003
0.00
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
7.00
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007
5.50
The Vulture
2009
8.00
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
0.00
A Farewell to Jinu
2015
5.80
Otaku's in Love
2004
5.50
Can't Protect Anyone
2009
0.00
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
0.00
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
5.77
The Magnificent Nine
2016
5.50
The Scythian Lamb
2018
6.00
Before We Vanish
2017
6.50
My Uncle
2016
6.30
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
7.00
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017
7.60
Isle of Dogs
2018
7.84
Beneath the Shadow
2019
5.50
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006
6.42
The Day of Destruction
2020
5.50
Wolf's Calling
2019
6.60
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019
8.50
ZOKKI
2021
7.30
Sai: Disaster
2026
0.00
Unreachable
2025
8.90