Ryuhei Matsuda
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.
Fotos
Películas (71)
Bye Bye Love: Detective Is in the Bar
2026 · Takada
UNDERGIRL
2026 · UNDERMAN
The Secret Battlefield
2026
Sai: Disaster
2026
Unreachable
2025
Transcending Dimensions
2025 · Shinno
Who Were We?
2024 · Ao
Ichigeki
2023 · Shimada Konosuke
ZOKKI
2021 · Fujimura
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
2021 · Shibata Katsuie
The Day of Destruction
2020 · Mr. Shinno
A Stranger in Shanghai
2019 · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Beneath the Shadow
2019 · Hiasa Norihiro
Wolf's Calling
2019 · Samurai
The Making Of Before We Vanish
2019 · Self
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018 · Shoji Segawa
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
The Scythian Lamb
2018 · Ichirō Miyakoshi
The Last Shot in the Bar
2017 · Takada
Before We Vanish
2017 · Shinji Kase
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017 · Zenjiro Ikeda
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
2017 · Tomoyuki
My Uncle
2016 · Uncle
The Magnificent Nine
2016 · Moku Kayaba
The Mohican Comes Home
2016 · Eikichi Tamura
A Farewell to Jinu
2015 · Takeharu Takami
Disconcerto
2014 · Haruhiko Gyoten
The Raid 2
2014 · Keiichi
My Little Sweet Pea
2013 · Norio Koiwa
Detective in the Bar
2013 · Takada
The Great Passage
2013 · Mitsuya Majime
A Chorus of Angels
2012 · Isamu
I'm Flash!
2012 · Bodyguard
Phone Call to the Bar
2011 · Takada
Tada's Do-It-All House
2011 · Haruhiko Gyoten
Boys on the Run
2010 · Aoyama
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Kanikôsen
2009 · Shinjo
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009 · Ikuta
The Vulture
2009 · 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！～」
2009
Nobody To Watch Over Me
2009 · Shogo Mishima
Can't Protect Anyone
2009
Nightmare Detective 2
2008 · Kyoichi Kagenuma
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007 · Shuichi
The Suicide Song
2007 · Riku Nagase
Tokyo Serendipity
2007 · Takashi Ohno
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007 · Kawasaki
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
2007 · Tatsuji
Nightmare Detective
2007 · Kyoichi Kagenuma
Chosyu Five
2006 · Yozo Yamao
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Jun Ariyoshi
Nana
2005 · Ren Honjou
Demon Pond
2005
Rampo Noir
2005 · Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Synesthesia
2005 · Kaoru Homura
Making of 9 Souls
2005 · Self
Otakus in Love
2004 · Mon Aoki
Izo
2004 · His Highness
Cutie Honey
2004 · NSA Client
Karaoke Terror
2003 · Ishihara
Happiness in August
2003
9 Souls
2003 · Michiru Kaneko
Age 17
2003 · Book Boy
Collage of Our Lives
2003 · Masato Segawa
Primavera Azul
2001 · Kujo
Run Ichiro Run
2001 · Ryu Mochizuki
Love Ghost
2001 · Shibayama Ryuske
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
Taboo
1999 · Sozaburo Kano
Series (20)
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
2026 · Ichinose Yosuke
Sai
2025 · Shinichiro Kuramoto
Asura
2025 · Shizuo Katsumata
Tokyo Salad Bowl
2025 · Ryo Arikino
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
2023 · Numakura Koichi
0.5 Man
2023 · Tachibana Masaharu
Uzukawamura Incident
2022 · Iwamori Akira
My Dear Exes
2021 · Hassaku Tanaka
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
2021 · 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
Distorted Ripples
2019 · Masahiko Sawamura
歪んだ波紋
2019
Weakest Beast
2018 · Kosei Nemoto
Smoking
2018 · Sakakibara Masayuki
Quartet
2017 · Tsukasa Beppu
Natsuko Kira
2016 · Keisuke Takagi, Creator
Amachan
2013 · Takuma Mizuguchi
Tada's Do-It-All House
2013 · Gyoten Haruhiko
Dōki
2011 · Ryouta Udagawa
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
2008 · Yashiro Heita
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
2007 · Osamu Nishino