Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 9, 1983
Place of Birth:
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tokyo Salad Bowl | Ryo Arikino |
| 2025 | Asura | Shizuo Katsumata |
| 2025 | Sai | Shinichiro Kuramoto |
| 2023 | 0.5 Man | Tachibana Masaharu |
| 2023 | Give My Regards to Kenshirō | Numakura Koichi |
| 2022 | Uzukawamura Incident | Iwamori Akira |
| 2021 | My Dear Exes | Hassaku Tanaka |
| 2021 | チェインストーリー 大豆田とわ子を知らない三人の男たち | 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku |
| 2019 | 歪んだ波紋 | |
| 2018 | Weakest Beast | Kosei Nemoto |
| 2018 | Smoking | Sakakibara Masayuki |
| 2017 | Quartet | Tsukasa Beppu |
| 2016 | Natsuko Kira | Keisuke Takagi |
| 2013 | Tada's Do-It-All House | Gyoten Haruhiko |
| 2013 | Amachan | 水口琢磨 |
| 2008 | Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow | Yashiro Heita |
| 2007 | Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth | Osamu Nishino |