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