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