Ryuhei Matsuda
Acting
Born: May 09, 1983
From: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Credits: 30 titles
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.
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcending Dimensions | Shinno | 2025 | 7.8 |
| Who Were We? | Ao | 2024 | 2.0 |
| Ichigeki | Shimada Konosuke | 2023 | 6.0 |
| The Raid 2 | Keiichi | 2014 | 7.607 |
| Disconcerto | Haruhiko Gyoten | 2014 | 6.4 |
| The Great Passage | Mitsuya Majime | 2013 | 7.2 |
| Detective in the Bar | Takada | 2013 | 7.7 |
| My Little Sweet Pea | Norio Koiwa | 2013 | 6.2 |
| I'm Flash! | Bodyguard | 2012 | 6.3 |
| A Chorus of Angels | Isamu | 2012 | 7.0 |
| Phone Call to the Bar | Takada | 2011 | 7.2 |
| Tada's Do-It-All House | Haruhiko Gyoten | 2011 | 6.5 |
| Boys on the Run | Aoyama | 2010 | 5.0 |
| The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity | Ikuta | 2009 | 6.4 |
| Nobody To Watch Over Me | Shogo Mishima | 2009 | 6.1 |
| Nightmare Detective 2 | Kyoichi Kagenuma | 2008 | 6.0 |
| The Suicide Song | Riku Nagase | 2007 | 5.2 |
| Nightmare Detective | Kyoichi Kagenuma | 2007 | 6.0 |
| Tokyo Serendipity | Takashi Ohno | 2007 | 5.9 |
| The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker | Kawasaki | 2007 | 6.8 |
| Chosyu Five | Yozo Yamao | 2006 | 6.0 |
| Demon Pond | 2005 | 6.6 | |
| Nana | Ren Honjou | 2005 | 6.7 |
| Synesthesia | Kaoru Homura | 2005 | 4.75 |
| Cutie Honey | NSA Client | 2004 | 6.3 |
| Izo | His Highness | 2004 | 6.118 |
| Karaoke Terror | Ishihara | 2003 | 5.923 |
| Collage of Our Lives | Masato Segawa | 2003 | 6.167 |
| Blue Spring | Kujo | 2001 | 7.2 |
| Taboo | Sozaburo Kano | 1999 | 6.573 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1983 |
| From | Suginami, Tokyo, Japan |