Yoji Matsuda

Acting Oct 19, 1967 (59 years old) Tokyo, Japan

Yoji Matsuda (松田洋治, Matsuda Yōji, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.

He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974.

He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata). He appeared in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, and, in 1987, portrayed the main character Shuna in Shuna's Journey. In 1997, he voiced Ashitaka in the anime movie Princess Mononoke, and voiced Leonardo DiCaprio's role Jack Dawson in the American film Titanic to raise his profile. In 2006, he taught acting as a lecturer at Tokyo Animation College. He became active around the stage, working with directors such as Yukio Ninagawa and Yoji Aoi. He appeared in the drama From the North Country.

32 Acting Credits

Yoji Matsuda

Acting

Princess Mononoke

Warriors of the Wind

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

The Old Man and the Sea

The Hidden Blade

Kamen Rider

Character

Dogra Magra

Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss!

Oshin

The Discarnates

Blood Type: Blue

The Motive

Seven Detectives

Scan Doll

Haruka, Nostalgia

The Glorious Asuka Gang!

Turning Point

Komugīro no tenshi suzume to shōnen

A Spirit of the Sun

Kamen Rider Amazon

Kyoufu no Yacchan

Kamen Rider Amazon: The Movie