Ryuhei Matsuda
Known for: Acting
Born: May 9, 1983
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
69 movies · 18 TV shows, newest first
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BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる
2026
2.0
The Secret Battlefield
2026
6.0
Sai: Disaster
2026
6.7
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
2026
7.8
Sai
2025
8.5
Unreachable
2025
7.3
Transcending Dimensions
2025
7.9
Asura
2025
7.9
Tokyo Salad Bowl
2025
2.0
Who Were We?
2024
7.5
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
2023
8.3
0.5 Man
2023
6.0
Ichigeki
2023
7.3
Uzukawamura Incident
2022
8.0
My Dear Exes
2021
7.0
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
2021
7.3
ZOKKI
2021
8.0
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021
5.5
The Day of Destruction
2020
8.5
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019
5.5
Beneath the Shadow
2019
9.0
歪んだ波紋
2019
6.6
Wolf's Calling
2019
5.7
Weakest Beast
2018
7.0
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
6.9
Smoking
2018
7.8
Isle of Dogs
2018
6.1
The Scythian Lamb
2018
7.2
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017
6.5
Before We Vanish
2017
8.1
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
6.7
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017
8.0
Quartet
2017
6.3
My Uncle
2016
7.0
Natsuko Kira
2016
5.6
The Magnificent Nine
2016
5.8
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
5.8
A Farewell to Jinu
2015
6.4
Disconcerto
2014
7.6
The Raid 2
2014
6.2
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
7.3
Detective in the Bar
2013
7.2
The Great Passage
2013
8.1
Amachan
2013
7.6
Tada's Do-It-All House
2013
7.1
A Chorus of Angels
2012
6.2
I'm Flash!
2012
7.1
Phone Call to the Bar
2011
6.5
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011
5.0
Boys on the Run
2010
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Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
6.2
Kanikôsen
2009
6.4
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
8.3
The Vulture
2009
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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
6.1
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009NR
Can't Protect Anyone
2009
6.0
Nightmare Detective 2
2008
8.0
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
2008
7.0
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
5.2
The Suicide Song
2007
6.0
Tokyo Serendipity
2007
6.8
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007
5.5
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007
8.5
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
2007
6.1
Nightmare Detective
2007
6.0
Chosyu Five
2006
6.4
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006
6.8
Nana
2005
6.6
Demon Pond
2005
5.7
Rampo Noir
2005
4.8
Synesthesia
2005NR
Making of 9 Souls
2005
6.1
Otakus in Love
2004
6.0
Izo
2004
6.3
Cutie Honey
2004
5.7
Karaoke Terror
2003NR
Happiness in August
2003
6.4
9 Souls
2003
NR
Age 17
2003
6.2
Collage of Our Lives
2003
7.2
Blue Spring
2001
8.5
Run Ichiro Run
2001
5.9
Love Ghost
2001
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The 300 million yen robbery
2000
6.6
Taboo
1999