Ryuhei Matsuda

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.

Known For

Taboo
Taboo
The Suicide Song
The Suicide Song
Ichigeki
Ichigeki
Demon Pond
Demon Pond
Izo
Izo
Blue Spring
Blue Spring
Who Were We?
Who Were We?
Nana
Nana
Nightmare Detective
Nightmare Detective

Filmography

2025 Sai
as Shinichiro Kuramoto
2025 Transcending Dimensions
as Shinno
2025 Asura
as Shizuo Katsumata
2025 Tokyo Salad Bowl
as Ryo Arikino
2024 Who Were We?
as Ao
2023 Give My Regards to Kenshirō
as Numakura Koichi
2023 0.5 Man
as Tachibana Masaharu
2023 Ichigeki
as Shimada Konosuke
2022 Uzukawamura Incident
as Iwamori Akira
2021 My Dear Exes
as Hassaku Tanaka
2021 チェインストーリー 大豆田とわ子を知らない三人の男たち
as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
2021 ZOKKI
as Fujimura
2021 Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
as Shibata Katsuie
2020 The Day of Destruction
as Mr. Shinno
2020 Beneath the Shadow
as Hiasa Norihiro
2019 A Stranger in Shanghai
as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2019 歪んだ波紋
as
2019 Wolf's Calling
as Samurai
2018 Weakest Beast
as Kosei Nemoto
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
as Shoji Segawa