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.
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An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo....
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An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facilit...
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Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent li...
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When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is calle...
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A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave vic...
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Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that...
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Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
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In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice) | 7.8 | |
| 2 | Before We Vanish (2017) | Shinji Kase | 8 | |
| 3 | The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) | Tomoyuki | 4 | |
| 4 | My Uncle (2016) | Uncle | - | - |
| 5 | The Raid 2 (2014) | Keiichi | 8 | |
| 6 | The Great Passage (2013) | Mitsuya Majime | - | - |
| 7 | Nightmare Detective 2 (2008) | Kyoichi Kagenuma | 5.5 | |
| 8 | Tokyo Serendipity (2007) | Takashi Ohno | - | - |
| 9 | Nightmare Detective (2007) | Kyoichi Kagenuma | 6.5 | |
| 10 | Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) | Jun Ariyoshi | 5 | |
| 11 | Nana (2005) | Ren Honjou | 5.3 | |
| 12 | Rampo Noir (2005) | Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar") | - | - |
| 13 | Synesthesia (2005) | Kaoru Homura | - | - |
| 14 | Izo (2004) | His Highness | 5.5 | |
| 15 | 9 Souls (2003) | Michiru Kaneko | 5 | |
| 16 | Love Ghost (2001) | Shibayama Ryuske | - | - |
| 17 | Blue Spring (2001) | Kujo | 4 | |
| 18 | Taboo (1999) | Sozaburo Kano | - | - |
