Name
Ryuhei Matsuda
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1983-05-09 (43 years old)
Place of Birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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. Since then, Matsuda has continued to work steadily across film and television. His notable award-winning period remains centered on his earlier career — most notably his Best Actor win at the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2013 for The Great Passage, alongside a Best Actor win at the 2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival in 2019 for the film Shadow.
More recently, his credits include the films Ichigeki (2023), Who Were We? (2023–2024), and Transcending Dimensions (2025). On television, he starred in the Netflix drama Asura (2025), based on Kazuo Kikuta's play, and in Tokyo Salad Bowl (2025). His film Disaster was released on February 20, 2026, and was also selected for the competition section of the San Sebastián Film Festival. In January 2026, Matsuda took on his first-ever leading role in a TV Asahi drama with Hey Detective, Your Backpack Is Open!
He also appeared in UNDERGIRL a first movie from UNDERCOVER production, a superhero film released in Shibuya.
Known For
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After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous cri...
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Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored w...
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Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He co...
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Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain at...
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Three young women live together in an old house in a corner of Tokyo. They are not related...
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- 2004 Cutie Honey as NSA Client
- 1999 Taboo as Sozaburo Kano
- 2007 The Suicide Song as Riku Nagase
- 2023 Ichigeki as Shimada Konosuke
- 2005 Demon Pond
- 2004 Izo as His Highness
- 2001 Blue Spring as Kujo
- 2024 Who Were We? as Ao
- 2005 Nana as Ren Honjou
- 2007 Nightmare Detective as Kyoichi Kagenuma
- 2003 Karaoke Terror as Ishihara
- 2010 Boys on the Run as Aoyama
- 2011 Phone Call to the Bar as Takada
- 2008 Nightmare Detective 2 as Kyoichi Kagenuma
- 2006 Chosyu Five as Yozo Yamao
- 2005 Synesthesia as Kaoru Homura
- 2003 Collage of Our Lives as Masato Segawa
- 2007 Tokyo Serendipity as Takashi Ohno
- 2009 The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Ikuta
- 2012 I'm Flash! as Bodyguard
- 2013 The Great Passage as Mitsuya Majime
- 2012 A Chorus of Angels as Isamu
- 2013 Detective in the Bar as Takada
- 2009 Nobody To Watch Over Me as Shogo Mishima
- 2014 The Raid 2 as Keiichi
- 2011 Tada's Do-It-All House as Haruhiko Gyoten
- 2013 My Little Sweet Pea as Norio Koiwa
- 2007 The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker as Kawasaki
- 2014 Disconcerto as Haruhiko Gyoten
- 2025 Transcending Dimensions as Shinno
- 2009 Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
- 2003 9 Souls as Michiru Kaneko
- 2009 Kanikôsen as Shinjo
- 2001 Run Ichiro Run as Ryu Mochizuki
- 2005 Rampo Noir as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
- 2009 The Vulture as Osamu Nishino
- 2001 Love Ghost as Shibayama Ryuske
- 2003 Age 17 as Book Boy
- 2007 The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as Tatsuji
- 2003 Happiness in August
- 2007 Life Can Be So Wonderful as Shuichi
- 2000 The 300 million yen robbery
- 2021 Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord as Shibata Katsuie
- 2015 A Farewell to Jinu as Takeharu Takami
- 2004 Otakus in Love as Mon Aoki
- 2009 Can't Protect Anyone
- 2009 SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
- 2016 The Mohican Comes Home as Eikichi Tamura
- 2016 The Magnificent Nine as Moku Kayaba
- 2018 The Scythian Lamb as Ichirō Miyakoshi
- 2017 Before We Vanish as Shinji Kase
- 2016 My Uncle as Uncle
- 2017 The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue as Tomoyuki
- 2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan as Shoji Segawa
- 2017 The Last Shot in the Bar as Takada
- 2017 Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter as Zenjiro Ikeda
- 2018 Isle of Dogs as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
- 2019 Beneath the Shadow as Hiasa Norihiro
- 2006 Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Jun Ariyoshi
- 2020 The Day of Destruction as Mr. Shinno
- 2019 Wolf's Calling as Samurai
- 2019 A Stranger in Shanghai as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 2021 ZOKKI as Fujimura
- 2026 Sai: Disaster
- 2025 Unreachable
- 2009 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！～」
- 2026 Bye Bye Love: Detective Is in the Bar as Takada
- 2005 Making of 9 Souls as Self
- 2026 The Secret Battlefield
- 2026 UNDERGIRL as UNDERMAN
- 2021 My Dear Exes ( 10 episodes ) as Hassaku Tanaka
- 2007 Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth ( 6 episodes ) as Osamu Nishino
- 2013 Tada's Do-It-All House ( 12 episodes ) as Gyoten Haruhiko
- 2023 0.5 Man ( 5 episodes ) as Tachibana Masaharu
- 2008 Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow ( 11 episodes ) as Yashiro Heita
- 2023 Give My Regards to Kenshirō ( 6 episodes ) as Numakura Koichi
- 2017 Quartet ( 10 episodes ) as Tsukasa Beppu
- 2016 Natsuko Kira ( 10 episodes ) as Keisuke Takagi
- 2013 Amachan ( 157 episodes ) as Takuma Mizuguchi
- 2022 Uzukawamura Incident ( 6 episodes ) as Iwamori Akira
- 2021 Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi ( 10 episodes ) as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
- 2018 Weakest Beast ( 10 episodes ) as Kosei Nemoto
- 2018 Smoking ( 12 episodes ) as Sakakibara Masayuki
- 2019 歪んだ波紋 ( 8 episodes )
- 2025 Tokyo Salad Bowl ( 9 episodes ) as Ryo Arikino
- 2025 Asura ( 7 episodes ) as Shizuo Katsumata
- 2025 Sai ( 6 episodes ) as Shinichiro Kuramoto
- 2026 Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open! ( 8 episodes ) as Ichinose Yosuke
- 2019 Distorted Ripples ( 8 episodes ) as Masahiko Sawamura
- 2011 Dōki ( 1 episode ) as Ryouta Udagawa
