Ryuhei Matsuda

Ryuhei Matsuda (42)

1983-05-09 | Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

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.

On Movies

  • Transcending Dimensions
  • Who Were We?
  • Ichigeki
  • ZOKKI
  • Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
  • The Day of Destruction
  • Beneath the Shadow
  • A Stranger in Shanghai
  • Wolf's Calling
  • The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
  • Isle of Dogs
  • The Scythian Lamb
  • The Last Shot in the Bar
  • Before We Vanish
  • Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
  • The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
  • My Uncle
  • The Magnificent Nine
  • The Mohican Comes Home
  • A Farewell to Jinu
  • Disconcerto
  • The Raid 2
  • My Little Sweet Pea
  • Detective in the Bar 2
  • The Great Passage
  • A Chorus of Angels
  • I'm Flash!
  • Phone Call to the Bar
  • Tada's Do-It-All House
  • Boys on the Run
  • Kanikôsen
  • The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
  • The Vulture
  • Nobody To Watch Over Me
  • Nightmare Detective 2
  • Life Can Be So Wonderful
  • The Suicide Song
  • Tokyo Serendipity
  • The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
  • The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
  • Nightmare Detective
  • Chosyu Five
  • Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
  • Nana
  • Demon Pond
  • Rampo Noir
  • Synesthesia
  • Otakus in Love
  • Izo
  • Cutie Honey
  • Karaoke Terror
  • Happiness in August
  • 9 Souls
  • Age 17
  • Collage of Our Lives
  • Blue Spring
  • Run Ichiro Run
  • Love Ghost
  • The 300 million yen robbery
  • Taboo

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