Ryuhei Matsuda
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.
Acting
Movie
Isle of Dogs
as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
2018
Movie
The Raid 2
as Keiichi
2014
Movie
Taboo
as Sozaburo Kano
1999
Movie
Blue Spring
as Kujo
2001
Movie
Nana
as Ren Honjou
2005
Movie
Izo
as His Highness
2004
Movie
Before We Vanish
as Shinji Kase
2017
Movie
Cutie Honey
as NSA Client
2004
Movie
Nightmare Detective
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
2007
Movie
The Great Passage
as Mitsuya Majime
2013
Movie
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Jun Ariyoshi
2006
Movie
9 Souls
as Michiru Kaneko
2003
TV
Quartet
as Tsukasa Beppu
2017
Movie
Nightmare Detective 2
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
2008
Movie
Rampo Noir
as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
2005
TV
Asura
as Shizuo Katsumata
2025
Movie
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
as Tomoyuki
2017
TV
My Dear Exes
as Hassaku Tanaka
2021
Movie
Tada's Do-It-All House
as Haruhiko Gyoten
2011
Movie
The Scythian Lamb
as Ichirō Miyakoshi
2018
Movie
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
as Kawasaki
2007
Movie
The Day of Destruction
as Mr. Shinno
2020
Movie
Phone Call to the Bar
as Takada
2011
TV
Tada's Do-It-All House
as Gyoten Haruhiko
2013
