Ryuhei Matsuda

Known For: Acting
Born: May 9, 1983
Place of Birth: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

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 fi…

Filmography

BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる

2026 · Takada

The Secret Battlefield

2026

Sai: Disaster

2026

Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!

2026 · Ichinose Yosuke

Sai

2025 · Shinichiro Kuramoto

Unreachable

2025

Transcending Dimensions

2025 · Shinno

Asura

2025 · Shizuo Katsumata

Tokyo Salad Bowl

2025 · Ryo Arikino

Who Were We?

2024 · Ao

Give My Regards to Kenshirō

2023 · Numakura Koichi

0.5 Man

2023 · Tachibana Masaharu

Ichigeki

2023 · Shimada Konosuke

Uzukawamura Incident

2022 · Iwamori Akira

My Dear Exes

2021 · Hassaku Tanaka

Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi

2021 · 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku

ZOKKI

2021 · Fujimura

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord

2021 · Shibata Katsuie

The Day of Destruction

2020 · Mr. Shinno

A Stranger in Shanghai

2019 · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Beneath the Shadow

2019 · Hiasa Norihiro

歪んだ波紋

2019

Wolf's Calling

2019 · Samurai

Weakest Beast

2018 · Kosei Nemoto

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2018 · Shoji Segawa

Smoking

2018 · Sakakibara Masayuki

Isle of Dogs

2018 · Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)

The Scythian Lamb

2018 · Ichirō Miyakoshi

The Last Shot in the Bar

2017 · Takada

Before We Vanish

2017 · Shinji Kase

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

2017 · Zenjiro Ikeda

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

2017 · Tomoyuki

Quartet

2017 · Tsukasa Beppu

My Uncle

2016 · Uncle

Natsuko Kira

2016 · Keisuke Takagi, Creator

The Magnificent Nine

2016 · Moku Kayaba

The Mohican Comes Home

2016 · Eikichi Tamura

A Farewell to Jinu

2015 · Takeharu Takami

Disconcerto

2014 · Haruhiko Gyoten

The Raid 2

2014 · Keiichi

My Little Sweet Pea

2013 · Norio Koiwa

Detective in the Bar

2013 · Takada

The Great Passage

2013 · Mitsuya Majime

Amachan

2013 · Takuma Mizuguchi

Tada's Do-It-All House

2013 · Gyoten Haruhiko

A Chorus of Angels

2012 · Isamu

I'm Flash!

2012 · Bodyguard

Phone Call to the Bar

2011 · Takada

Tada's Do-It-All House

2011 · Haruhiko Gyoten

Boys on the Run

2010 · Aoyama

Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters

2009

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda

2009

Kanikôsen

2009 · Shinjo

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

2009 · Ikuta

The Vulture

2009 · Osamu Nishino

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

Nobody To Watch Over Me

2009 · Shogo Mishima

Can't Protect Anyone

Can't Protect Anyone

2009

Nightmare Detective 2

2008 · Kyoichi Kagenuma

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

2008 · Yashiro Heita

Life Can Be So Wonderful

2007 · Shuichi

The Suicide Song

2007 · Riku Nagase

Tokyo Serendipity

2007 · Takashi Ohno

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

2007 · Kawasaki

The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi

2007 · Tatsuji

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

2007 · Osamu Nishino

Nightmare Detective

2007 · Kyoichi Kagenuma

Chosyu Five

2006 · Yozo Yamao

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

2006 · Jun Ariyoshi

Nana

2005 · Ren Honjou

Demon Pond

2005

Rampo Noir

2005 · Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")

Synesthesia

2005 · Kaoru Homura

Making of 9 Souls

Making of 9 Souls

2005 · Self

Otakus in Love

2004 · Mon Aoki

Izo

2004 · His Highness

Cutie Honey

2004 · NSA Client

Karaoke Terror

2003 · Ishihara

Happiness in August

Happiness in August

2003

9 Souls

2003 · Michiru Kaneko

Age 17

2003 · Book Boy

Collage of Our Lives

2003 · Masato Segawa

Blue Spring

2001 · Kujo

Run Ichiro Run

2001 · Ryu Mochizuki

Love Ghost

2001 · Shibayama Ryuske

The 300 million yen robbery

2000

Taboo

1999 · Sozaburo Kano

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