Ryuhei Matsuda
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 9, 1983 (age 43)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Sai: Disaster
Movie
Bye Bye Love: Detective Is in the Bar
Movie · as Takada
The Secret Battlefield
Movie
UNDERGIRL
Movie · as UNDERMAN
Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open!
TV · as Ichinose Yosuke · 8 eps
Transcending Dimensions
Movie · as Shinno
Unreachable
Movie
Tokyo Salad Bowl
TV · as Ryo Arikino · 9 eps
Asura
TV · as Shizuo Katsumata · 7 eps
Sai
TV · as Shinichiro Kuramoto · 6 eps
Who Were We?
Movie · as Ao
Ichigeki
Movie · as Shimada Konosuke
0.5 Man
TV · as Tachibana Masaharu · 5 eps
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
TV · as Numakura Koichi · 6 eps
Uzukawamura Incident
TV · as Iwamori Akira · 6 eps
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Movie · as Shibata Katsuie
ZOKKI
Movie · as Fujimura
My Dear Exes
TV · as Hassaku Tanaka · 10 eps
Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi
TV · as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku · 10 eps
The Day of Destruction
Movie · as Mr. Shinno
Beneath the Shadow
Movie · as Hiasa Norihiro
Wolf's Calling
Movie · as Samurai
A Stranger in Shanghai
Movie · as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Making Of Before We Vanish
Movie · as Self
歪んだ波紋
TV · 8 eps
Distorted Ripples
TV · as Masahiko Sawamura · 8 eps
The Scythian Lamb
Movie · as Ichirō Miyakoshi
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Movie · as Shoji Segawa
Isle of Dogs
Movie · as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
Weakest Beast
TV · as Kosei Nemoto · 10 eps
Smoking
TV · as Sakakibara Masayuki · 12 eps
Before We Vanish
Movie · as Shinji Kase
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Movie · as Tomoyuki
The Last Shot in the Bar
Movie · as Takada
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Movie · as Zenjiro Ikeda
Quartet
TV · as Tsukasa Beppu · 10 eps
The Mohican Comes Home
Movie · as Eikichi Tamura
The Magnificent Nine
Movie · as Moku Kayaba
My Uncle
Movie · as Uncle
Natsuko Kira
TV · as Keisuke Takagi · 10 eps
A Farewell to Jinu
Movie · as Takeharu Takami
The Raid 2
Movie · as Keiichi
Disconcerto
Movie · as Haruhiko Gyoten
The Great Passage
Movie · as Mitsuya Majime
Detective in the Bar
Movie · as Takada
My Little Sweet Pea
Movie · as Norio Koiwa
Tada's Do-It-All House
TV · as Gyoten Haruhiko · 12 eps
Amachan
TV · as Takuma Mizuguchi · 157 eps
I'm Flash!
Movie · as Bodyguard
A Chorus of Angels
Movie · as Isamu
Phone Call to the Bar
Movie · as Takada
Tada's Do-It-All House
Movie · as Haruhiko Gyoten
Dōki
TV · as Ryouta Udagawa · 1 ep
Boys on the Run
Movie · as Aoyama
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Movie · as Ikuta
Nobody To Watch Over Me
Movie · as Shogo Mishima
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
Movie
Kanikôsen
Movie · as Shinjo
The Vulture
Movie · as Osamu Nishino
Can't Protect Anyone
Movie
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Movie
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！～」
Movie
Nightmare Detective 2
Movie · as Kyoichi Kagenuma
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
TV · as Yashiro Heita · 11 eps
The Suicide Song
Movie · as Riku Nagase
Nightmare Detective
Movie · as Kyoichi Kagenuma
Tokyo Serendipity
Movie · as Takashi Ohno
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Movie · as Kawasaki
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Movie · as Tatsuji
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Movie · as Shuichi
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
TV · as Osamu Nishino · 6 eps
Chosyu Five
Movie · as Yozo Yamao
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Movie · as Jun Ariyoshi
Demon Pond
Movie
Nana
Movie · as Ren Honjou
Synesthesia
Movie · as Kaoru Homura
Rampo Noir
Movie · as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Making of 9 Souls
Movie · as Self
Cutie Honey
Movie · as NSA Client
Izo
Movie · as His Highness
Otakus in Love
Movie · as Mon Aoki
Karaoke Terror
Movie · as Ishihara
Collage of Our Lives
Movie · as Masato Segawa
9 Souls
Movie · as Michiru Kaneko
Age 17
Movie · as Book Boy
Happiness in August
Movie
Blue Spring
Movie · as Kujo
Run Ichiro Run
Movie · as Ryu Mochizuki
Love Ghost
Movie · as Shibayama Ryuske
The 300 million yen robbery
Movie
Taboo
Movie · as Sozaburo Kano