Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1983-05-09 (Age: 43)
Place of Birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Filmography (68)
BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる
2026
Sai: Disaster
2026
Unreachable
2025
Transcending Dimensions
2025
Who Were We?
2024
Ichigeki
2023
ZOKKI
2021
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021
The Day of Destruction
2020
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019
Beneath the Shadow
2019
Wolf's Calling
2019
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Isle of Dogs
2018
