Sai: Disaster
2026 · Movie
Ryuhei Matsuda
1983-05-09
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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.
Filmography
BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる
2026 · Movie
as Takada
The Secret Battlefield
2026 · Movie
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
2026 · TV Show
as Ichinose Yosuke
Transcending Dimensions
2025 · Movie
as Shinno
Unreachable
2025 · Movie
Tokyo Salad Bowl
2025 · TV Show
as Ryo Arikino
Asura
2025 · TV Show
as Shizuo Katsumata
Sai
2025 · TV Show
as Shinichiro Kuramoto
Who Were We?
2024 · Movie
as Ao
Ichigeki
2023 · Movie
as Shimada Konosuke
0.5 Man
2023 · TV Show
as Tachibana Masaharu
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
2023 · TV Show
as Numakura Koichi
Uzukawamura Incident
2022 · TV Show
as Iwamori Akira
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021 · Movie
as Shibata Katsuie
ZOKKI
2021 · Movie
as Fujimura
My Dear Exes
2021 · TV Show
as Hassaku Tanaka
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
2021 · TV Show
as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
The Day of Destruction
2020 · Movie
as Mr. Shinno
Beneath the Shadow
2019 · Movie
as Hiasa Norihiro
Wolf's Calling
2019 · Movie
as Samurai
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019 · Movie
as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
歪んだ波紋
2019 · TV Show
The Scythian Lamb
2018 · Movie
as Ichirō Miyakoshi
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018 · Movie
as Shoji Segawa
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Movie
as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
Weakest Beast
2018 · TV Show
as Kosei Nemoto
Smoking
2018 · TV Show
as Sakakibara Masayuki
Before We Vanish
2017 · Movie
as Shinji Kase
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017 · Movie
as Tomoyuki
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017 · Movie
as Takada
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017 · Movie
as Zenjiro Ikeda
Quartet
2017 · TV Show
as Tsukasa Beppu
The Mohican Comes Home
2016 · Movie
as Eikichi Tamura
The Magnificent Nine
2016 · Movie
as Moku Kayaba
My Uncle
2016 · Movie
as Uncle
Natsuko Kira
2016 · TV Show
as Keisuke Takagi
A Farewell to Jinu
2015 · Movie
as Takeharu Takami
The Raid 2
2014 · Movie
as Keiichi
Disconcerto
2014 · Movie
as Haruhiko Gyoten
The Great Passage
2013 · Movie
as Mitsuya Majime
Detective in the Bar
2013 · Movie
as Takada
My Little Sweet Pea
2013 · Movie
as Norio Koiwa
Tada's Do-It-All House
2013 · TV Show
as Gyoten Haruhiko
Amachan
2013 · TV Show
as Takuma Mizuguchi
I'm Flash!
2012 · Movie
as Bodyguard
A Chorus of Angels
2012 · Movie
as Isamu
Phone Call to the Bar
2011 · Movie
as Takada
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011 · Movie
as Haruhiko Gyoten
Boys on the Run
2010 · Movie
as Aoyama
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009 · Movie
as Ikuta
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009 · Movie
as Shogo Mishima
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009 · Movie
Kanikôsen
2009 · Movie
as Shinjo
The Vulture
2009 · Movie
as Osamu Nishino
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Can't Protect Anyone
2009 · Movie
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009 · Movie
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 · Movie
Nightmare Detective 2
2008 · Movie
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
2008 · TV Show
as Yashiro Heita
The Suicide Song
2007 · Movie
as Riku Nagase
Nightmare Detective
2007 · Movie
as Kyoichi Kagenuma
Tokyo Serendipity
2007 · Movie
as Takashi Ohno
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007 · Movie
as Kawasaki
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007 · Movie
as Tatsuji
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007 · Movie
as Shuichi
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
2007 · TV Show
as Osamu Nishino
Chosyu Five
2006 · Movie
as Yozo Yamao
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Movie
as Jun Ariyoshi
Demon Pond
2005 · Movie
Nana
2005 · Movie
as Ren Honjou
Synesthesia
2005 · Movie
as Kaoru Homura
Rampo Noir
2005 · Movie
as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
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Making of 9 Souls
2005 · Movie
as Self
Cutie Honey
2004 · Movie
as NSA Client
Izo
2004 · Movie
as His Highness
Otakus in Love
2004 · Movie
as Mon Aoki
Karaoke Terror
2003 · Movie
as Ishihara
Collage of Our Lives
2003 · Movie
as Masato Segawa
9 Souls
2003 · Movie
as Michiru Kaneko
Age 17
2003 · Movie
as Book Boy
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Happiness in August
2003 · Movie
Blue Spring
2001 · Movie
as Kujo
Run Ichiro Run
2001 · Movie
as Ryu Mochizuki
Love Ghost
2001 · Movie
as Shibayama Ryuske
The 300 million yen robbery
2000 · Movie
Taboo
1999 · Movie
as Sozaburo Kano
