Ryuhei Matsuda
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.
86 acting credits
Acting · 86
Amachan
2013
My Dear Exes
2021
Isle of Dogs
2018
Asura
2025
The Raid 2
2014
Quartet
2017
Tada's Do-It-All House
2013
Tokyo Salad Bowl
2025
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
2007
Natsuko Kira
2016
Uzukawamura Incident
2022
0.5 Man
2023
Weakest Beast
2018
Sai
2025
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
2023
Smoking
2018
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
2008
Taboo
1999
Unreachable
2025
Nana
2005
Izo
2004
Blue Spring
2001
Cutie Honey
2004
Phone Call to the Bar
2011
Transcending Dimensions
2025
Before We Vanish
2017
The Great Passage
2013
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017
歪んだ波紋
2019
Tokyo Serendipity
2007
ZOKKI
2021
Otakus in Love
2004
The Scythian Lamb
2018
Boys on the Run
2010
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006
Rampo Noir
2005
9 Souls
2003
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007
The Magnificent Nine
2016
Kanikôsen
2009
Disconcerto
2014
The Vulture
2009
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
2021
The Suicide Song
2007
Nightmare Detective 2
2008
Age 17
2003
Beneath the Shadow
2019
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
Nightmare Detective
2007
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
Ichigeki
2023
Detective in the Bar
2013
A Chorus of Angels
2012
My Uncle
2016
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
I'm Flash!
2012
Karaoke Terror
2003
Love Ghost
2001
Collage of Our Lives
2003
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
2026
Run Ichiro Run
2001
Who Were We?
2024
Demon Pond
2005
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021
Synesthesia
2005
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
Sai: Disaster
2026
The Day of Destruction
2020
A Farewell to Jinu
2015
Chosyu Five
2006
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
Can't Protect Anyone
2009
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007
Wolf's Calling
2019
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Happiness in August
2003
BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる
2026
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
Making of 9 Souls
2005