Ryuhei Matsuda
Actor
Biography
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
The Raid 2
as Keiichi 2014
Taboo
as Sozaburo Kano 1999
Blue Spring
as Kujo 2001
Nana
as Ren Honjou 2005
Izo
as His Highness 2004
Before We Vanish
as Shinji Kase 2017
Cutie Honey
as NSA Client 2004
Nightmare Detective
as Kyoichi Kagenuma 2007
The Great Passage
as Mitsuya Majime 2013
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Jun Ariyoshi 2006
9 Souls
as Michiru Kaneko 2003
Nightmare Detective 2
as Kyoichi Kagenuma 2008
Rampo Noir
as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar") 2005
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
as Tomoyuki 2017
Tada's Do-It-All House
as Haruhiko Gyoten 2011
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
as Kawasaki 2007