Ryuhei Matsuda
Born May 09, 1983 (Age: 42)
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Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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.
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Filmography
Sai: Disaster
2026
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Age: 42
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021
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as Shibata Katsuie
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Age: 37
Isle of Dogs
2018
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as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
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Age: 34
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017
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as Tomoyuki
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Age: 33
The Raid 2
2014
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as Keiichi
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Age: 30
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
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Age: 26
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
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Age: 26
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
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as Ikuta
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Age: 26
大パルコ人①メカロックオペラ「R2C2～サイボーグなのでバンド辞めます！～」
2009
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Age: 25
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
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as Shuichi
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Age: 24
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007
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as Tatsuji
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Age: 23
Blue Spring
2001
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as Kujo
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Age: 18
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
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Age: 17