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Home/People/Ryuhei Matsuda
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Born
May 9, 1983
Age 42
Place of Birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

66
Movies
18
TV Shows
Also Known As
松田龙平
Ryûhei Matsuda
ریوهی ماتسودا
ریوهای ماتسودا
IMDb ProfileOfficial Website

Ryuhei Matsuda

Acting

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.
Sai: Disaster poster

Sai: Disaster

Cast
2026
Unreachable poster

Unreachable

Cast
2025
Transcending Dimensions poster

Transcending Dimensions

as Shinno
2025
Who Were We? poster

Who Were We?

as Ao
2024
Ichigeki poster

Ichigeki

as Shimada Konosuke
2023
ZOKKI poster

ZOKKI

as Fujimura
2021
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord poster

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord

as Shibata Katsuie
2021
The Day of Destruction poster

The Day of Destruction

as Mr. Shinno
2020
A Stranger in Shanghai poster

A Stranger in Shanghai

as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2019
Beneath the Shadow poster

Beneath the Shadow

as Hiasa Norihiro
2019
Wolf's Calling poster

Wolf's Calling

as Samurai
2019
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan poster

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

as Shoji Segawa
2018
Isle of Dogs poster

Isle of Dogs

as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
2018
The Scythian Lamb poster

The Scythian Lamb

as Ichirō Miyakoshi
2018
The Last Shot in the Bar poster

The Last Shot in the Bar

as Takada
2017
Before We Vanish poster

Before We Vanish

as Shinji Kase
2017
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter poster

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

as Zenjiro Ikeda
2017
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue poster

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

as Tomoyuki
2017
My Uncle poster

My Uncle

as Uncle
2016
The Magnificent Nine poster

The Magnificent Nine

as Moku Kayaba
2016