
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.
Acting (62 movies)

Cutie Honey
2004

Taboo
1999

The Suicide Song
2007

Ichigeki
2023

Demon Pond
2005

Izo
2004

Blue Spring
2001

Who Were We?
2024

Nana
2005

Nightmare Detective
2007

Karaoke Terror
2003

Boys on the Run
2010

Phone Call to the Bar
2011

Nightmare Detective 2
2008

Chosyu Five
2006

Synesthesia
2005

Collage of Our Lives
2003

Tokyo Serendipity
2007

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009

I'm Flash!
2012

The Great Passage
2013

A Chorus of Angels
2012

Detective in the Bar 2
2013

Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009

The Raid 2
2014

Tada's Do-It-All House
2011

My Little Sweet Pea
2013

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007

Disconcerto
2014

Transcending Dimensions
2025

Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009

9 Souls
2003

Kanikôsen
2009

Run Ichiro Run
2001

Rampo Noir
2005

Love Ghost
2001

Age 17
2003

Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007

The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007

The Vulture
2009

The 300 million yen robbery
2000

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021

A Farewell to Jinu
2015

Otakus in Love
2004

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009

The Mohican Comes Home
2016

The Magnificent Nine
2016

The Scythian Lamb
2018

Before We Vanish
2017

My Uncle
2016

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018

The Last Shot in the Bar
2017

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017

Isle of Dogs
2018

Beneath the Shadow
2019

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006

The Day of Destruction
2020

Wolf's Calling
2019

A Stranger in Shanghai
2019

ZOKKI
2021

Sai: Disaster
2025
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