Ryuhei Matsuda
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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
Credits
Isle of Dogs (2018)
as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
The Raid 2 (2014)
as Keiichi
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi (2007)
as Tatsuji
Blue Spring (2001)
as Kujo
Cutie Honey (2004)
as NSA Client
Taboo (1999)
as Sozaburo Kano
Nana (2005)
as Ren Honjou
Before We Vanish (2017)
as Shinji Kase
Unreachable (2025)
Actor
Tokyo Serendipity (2007)
as Takashi Ohno
Transcending Dimensions (2025)
as Shinno
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
as Jun Ariyoshi
Phone Call to the Bar (2011)
as Takada
The Great Passage (2013)
as Mitsuya Majime
Detective in the Bar (2013)
as Takada
Izo (2004)
as His Highness
The Magnificent Nine (2016)
as Moku Kayaba
Beneath the Shadow (2019)
as Hiasa Norihiro
Tada's Do-It-All House (2011)
as Haruhiko Gyoten
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity (2009)
as Ikuta
The Last Shot in the Bar (2017)
as Takada
The Scythian Lamb (2018)
as Ichirō Miyakoshi
Rampo Noir (2005)
as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Otakus in Love (2004)
as Mon Aoki
Nobody To Watch Over Me (2009)
as Shogo Mishima
Sai: Disaster (2026)
Actor
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan (2018)
as Shoji Segawa
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007)
as Kawasaki
Age 17 (2003)
as Book Boy
The Secret Battlefield (2026)
Actor
Love Ghost (2001)
as Shibayama Ryuske
A Farewell to Jinu (2015)
as Takeharu Takami
ZOKKI (2021)
as Fujimura
I'm Flash! (2012)
as Bodyguard
Nightmare Detective (2007)
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
A Chorus of Angels (2012)
as Isamu
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017)
as Tomoyuki
Collage of Our Lives (2003)
as Masato Segawa
Kanikôsen (2009)
as Shinjo
Disconcerto (2014)
as Haruhiko Gyoten
The Day of Destruction (2020)
as Mr. Shinno
Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
Who Were We? (2024)
as Ao
The 300 million yen robbery (2000)
Actor
Boys on the Run (2010)
as Aoyama
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord (2021)
as Shibata Katsuie
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter (2017)
as Zenjiro Ikeda
My Uncle (2016)
as Uncle
Karaoke Terror (2003)
as Ishihara
The Vulture (2009)
as Osamu Nishino
9 Souls (2003)
as Michiru Kaneko
Run Ichiro Run (2001)
as Ryu Mochizuki
A Stranger in Shanghai (2019)
as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
My Little Sweet Pea (2013)
as Norio Koiwa
The Mohican Comes Home (2016)
as Eikichi Tamura
Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)
as Shuichi
The Suicide Song (2007)
as Riku Nagase
Can't Protect Anyone (2009)
Actor
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda (2009)
Actor
Ichigeki (2023)
as Shimada Konosuke
Wolf's Calling (2019)
as Samurai
Chosyu Five (2006)
as Yozo Yamao
Synesthesia (2005)
as Kaoru Homura
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)
Actor
Happiness in August (2003)
Actor
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters (2009)
Actor
BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる (2026)
as Takada
Making of 9 Souls (2005)
as Self
Demon Pond (2005)
Actor