Yoji Matsuda
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 19, 1967 (age 59)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Yoji Matsuda (松田 洋治, Matsuda Yōji, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974. He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata). He appeared in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, and, in 1987, portrayed the main character Shuna in Shuna's Journey. In 1997, he voiced Ashitaka in the anime movie Princess Mononoke, and voiced Leonardo DiCaprio's role Jack Dawson in the American film Titanic to raise his profile. In 2006, he taught acting as a lecturer at Tokyo Animation College. He became active around the stage, working with directors such as Yukio Ninagawa and Yoji Aoi. He appeared in the drama From the North Country.
Known For
Filmography
The World Is Dancing
TV · as Inuo (voice) · 13 eps
Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss!
TV · as Kawahara · 8 eps
Character
Movie · as Atsushi Henmi
Ninsho
Movie · as Teishi Tomo
Seven Detectives
TV · 1 ep
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie · as Sojiro Takase (voice)
A Spirit of the Sun
TV · as Genichirō Ryū (voice) · 2 eps
The Hidden Blade
Movie
The Motive
Movie · as Rich young man
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
TV · as MacLachlan Marshall (voice) · 26 eps
The Stupid Teacher
Movie · as Young soldier
The Old Man and the Sea
Movie · as (voice)
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Movie
Princess Mononoke
Movie · as Ashitaka (voice)
Scan Doll
Movie · as Katsumi
Turning Point
Movie
Haruka, Nostalgia
Movie · as Hiroshi Saitoh
Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze
Movie
Binetsu MY LOVE
Movie
Virgin Girl's Story: The Lady is in Danger!
Movie
Dogra Magra
Movie · as Ichiro Kure
The Discarnates
Movie · as Script Reading
The Glorious Asuka Gang!
Movie · as Kasuga
Kyoufu no Yacchan
Movie
Late Night Salute
TV · 4 eps
Takeshi-kun, Hai!
TV · as Shujiro Nishino · 30 eps
Warriors of the Wind
Movie · as Asbel (voice)
Oshin
TV · as Yuu · 297 eps
Komugīro no tenshi suzume to shōnen
Movie · as サブ
Blood Type: Blue
Movie · as Osamu, Minami's son
Ghost Train
Movie
Kamen Rider Amazon: The Movie
Movie · as Masahiko Okamura
Kamen Rider Amazon
TV · as Masahiko Okamura · 24 eps
Kamen Rider
TV · as Masahiko Okamura · 24 eps