Actor profile

Ryuhei Matsuda

9th May 1983 Suginami, Tokyo, Japan 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.

67 Movies 18 TV Shows 1 In Production 86 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Sai: Disaster poster

Sai: Disaster 20th February 2026

Unreachable poster

Unreachable 4th April 2025

Transcending Dimensions poster

Transcending Dimensions 1st February 2025 as Shinno

Who Were We? poster

Who Were We? 31st May 2024 as Ao

Ichigeki poster

Ichigeki 3rd January 2023 as Shimada Konosuke

ZOKKI poster

ZOKKI 2nd April 2021 as Fujimura

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord poster

Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord 26th March 2021 as Shibata Katsuie

The Day of Destruction poster

The Day of Destruction 24th July 2020 as Mr. Shinno

A Stranger in Shanghai poster

A Stranger in Shanghai 28th December 2019 as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Beneath the Shadow poster

Beneath the Shadow 7th December 2019 as Hiasa Norihiro

Wolf's Calling poster

Wolf's Calling 20th September 2019 as Samurai

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan poster

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan 7th September 2018 as Shoji Segawa

Isle of Dogs poster

Isle of Dogs 23rd March 2018 as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)

The Scythian Lamb poster

The Scythian Lamb 3rd February 2018 as Ichirō Miyakoshi

The Last Shot in the Bar poster

The Last Shot in the Bar 1st December 2017 as Takada

Before We Vanish poster

Before We Vanish 6th September 2017 as Shinji Kase

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter poster

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter 18th April 2017 as Zenjiro Ikeda

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue poster

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue 13th February 2017 as Tomoyuki

My Uncle poster

My Uncle 3rd November 2016 as Uncle

The Magnificent Nine poster

The Magnificent Nine 14th May 2016 as Moku Kayaba

The Mohican Comes Home poster

The Mohican Comes Home 9th April 2016 as Eikichi Tamura

A Farewell to Jinu poster

A Farewell to Jinu 4th April 2015 as Takeharu Takami

Disconcerto poster

Disconcerto 18th October 2014 as Haruhiko Gyoten

The Raid 2 poster

The Raid 2 27th March 2014 as Keiichi

My Little Sweet Pea poster

My Little Sweet Pea 21st December 2013 as Norio Koiwa

Detective in the Bar poster

Detective in the Bar 11th May 2013 as Takada

The Great Passage poster

The Great Passage 13th April 2013 as Mitsuya Majime

A Chorus of Angels poster

A Chorus of Angels 3rd November 2012 as Isamu

I'm Flash! poster

I'm Flash! 31st August 2012 as Bodyguard

Phone Call to the Bar poster

Phone Call to the Bar 10th September 2011 as Takada

Tada's Do-It-All House poster

Tada's Do-It-All House 23rd April 2011 as Haruhiko Gyoten

Boys on the Run poster

Boys on the Run 30th January 2010 as Aoyama

Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters poster

Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters 14th November 2009

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda poster

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda 6th November 2009

Kanikôsen poster

Kanikôsen 4th July 2009 as Shinjo

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity poster

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity 20th June 2009 as Ikuta

The Vulture poster

The Vulture 6th June 2009 as Osamu Nishino

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！～」 poster

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！～」 27th April 2009

Can't Protect Anyone 24th January 2009

Nobody To Watch Over Me poster

Nobody To Watch Over Me 24th January 2009 as Shogo Mishima

Nightmare Detective 2 poster

Nightmare Detective 2 20th December 2008 as Kyoichi Kagenuma

Life Can Be So Wonderful poster

Life Can Be So Wonderful 15th September 2007 as Shuichi

The Suicide Song poster

The Suicide Song 18th August 2007 as Riku Nagase

Tokyo Serendipity poster

Tokyo Serendipity 18th August 2007 as Takashi Ohno

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker poster

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker 23rd June 2007 as Kawasaki

The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi poster

The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi 5th May 2007 as Tatsuji

Nightmare Detective poster

Nightmare Detective 13th January 2007 as Kyoichi Kagenuma

Chosyu Five poster

Chosyu Five 22nd October 2006 as Yozo Yamao

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A poster

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 11th February 2006 as Jun Ariyoshi

Nana poster

Nana 3rd September 2005 as Ren Honjou

Demon Pond poster

Demon Pond 25th May 2005

Rampo Noir poster

Rampo Noir 11th May 2005 as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")

Synesthesia poster

Synesthesia 1st March 2005 as Kaoru Homura

Making of 9 Souls 25th January 2005 as Self

Otakus in Love poster

Otakus in Love 20th October 2004 as Mon Aoki

Izo poster

Izo 7th September 2004 as His Highness

Cutie Honey poster

Cutie Honey 29th May 2004 as NSA Client

Karaoke Terror poster

Karaoke Terror 8th November 2003 as Ishihara

Happiness in August 2nd August 2003

9 Souls poster

9 Souls 19th July 2003 as Michiru Kaneko

Age 17 poster

Age 17 21st June 2003 as Book Boy

Collage of Our Lives poster

Collage of Our Lives 16th May 2003 as Masato Segawa

Blue Spring poster

Blue Spring 9th September 2001 as Kujo

Run Ichiro Run poster

Run Ichiro Run 28th April 2001 as Ryu Mochizuki

Love Ghost poster

Love Ghost 24th March 2001 as Shibayama Ryuske

The 300 million yen robbery poster

The 300 million yen robbery 30th December 2000

Taboo poster

Taboo 18th December 1999 as Sozaburo Kano

Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open! poster

Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open! 9th January 2026 as Ichinose Yosuke

Sai poster

Sai 6th April 2025 as Shinichiro Kuramoto

Asura poster

Asura 9th January 2025 as Shizuo Katsumata

Tokyo Salad Bowl poster

Tokyo Salad Bowl 7th January 2025 as Ryo Arikino

Give My Regards to Kenshirō poster

Give My Regards to Kenshirō 22nd September 2023 as Numakura Koichi

0.5 Man poster

0.5 Man 28th May 2023 as Tachibana Masaharu

Uzukawamura Incident poster

Uzukawamura Incident 28th August 2022 as Iwamori Akira

Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi poster

Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi 13th April 2021 as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku

My Dear Exes poster

My Dear Exes 13th April 2021 as Hassaku Tanaka

歪んだ波紋 poster

歪んだ波紋 3rd November 2019

Weakest Beast poster

Weakest Beast 10th October 2018 as Kosei Nemoto

Smoking poster

Smoking 20th April 2018 as Sakakibara Masayuki

Quartet poster

Quartet 17th January 2017 as Tsukasa Beppu

Natsuko Kira poster

Natsuko Kira 21st July 2016 as Keisuke Takagi

Amachan poster

Amachan 1st April 2013 as 水口琢磨

Tada's Do-It-All House poster

Tada's Do-It-All House 11th January 2013 as Gyoten Haruhiko

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow poster

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow 8th January 2008 as Yashiro Heita

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth poster

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth 17th February 2007 as Osamu Nishino

BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる poster

Coming soon

BYE BYE LOVE 探偵はBARにいる 25th December 2026 as Takada