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.
2013 • TV
2001 • Movie
2025 • Movie
1999 • Movie
2003 • Movie
2025 • TV
as Kujo
as Shinno
as Sozaburo Kano
as Michiru Kaneko
as Haruhiko Gyoten
as Mitsuya Majime
as Kawasaki
as Moku Kayaba
as Ryu Mochizuki
as Ikuta
as Takeharu Takami
as Aoyama
as Shinjo
as Ichirō Miyakoshi
as Mon Aoki
as Eikichi Tamura
as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
as NSA Client
as Shogo Mishima
as Tatsuji
as 水口琢磨
157 episodes
as Ryo Arikino
9 episodes
as Shizuo Katsumata
7 episodes
as Tsukasa Beppu
10 episodes
as Shinichiro Kuramoto
6 episodes
as Tachibana Masaharu
5 episodes
as Hassaku Tanaka
10 episodes
as Keisuke Takagi
10 episodes
as Kosei Nemoto
10 episodes
as Gyoten Haruhiko
12 episodes
as Ichinose Yosuke
3 episodes
as Osamu Nishino
6 episodes
as Sakakibara Masayuki
12 episodes
as Iwamori Akira
6 episodes
as Yashiro Heita
11 episodes
as Numakura Koichi
6 episodes
8 episodes
as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
10 episodes
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