Personal Info
Birth date
1983-05-09 (42 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
松田龙平
Ryûhei Matsuda
ریوهی ماتسودا
ریوهای ماتسودا
Ryuhei Matsuda
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.
Filmography
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
8
Overview:
Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.Asura
7.9
Overview:
In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.My Dear Exes
8.3
Overview:
Omameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing". She has experienced three divorces and is currently living with her 15-year-old daughter, Uta. Although Towako has been divorced thrice, she remains bright and lives her life strongly. However, her life is constantly disrupted by her three troublemaker ex-husbands.Amachan
8.3
Overview:
Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.Tada's Do-It-All House
7.6
Overview:
In the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business which does odd jobs. Its owner is the solemn and level-headed Tada Keisuke, and his unexpected guest, the easygoing but vague Gyoten Haruhiko, a former junior high school classmate who showed up one day and started to sponge on him. The two of them get on like oil and water, and yet are somehow inseparable. They receive queer, dubious incoming odd job requests which they accept, and what comes into view are the friendship between them as well as the backgrounds of their clients.Natsuko Kira
7
Overview:
Natsuko is going back to the advertising agency she worked for before taking maternity leave and is shocked to learn that she is not the creative director any more but instead, she is put in charge of the Sales Development. Unmotivated, Natsuko finds she has her work cut out for her, and she has trouble balancing her job responsibilities with her home life, so she hires Miyuki, a babysitter. Unfortunately, Miyuki’s presence eventually works to tear her marriage apart.Weakest Beast
5.7
Overview:
Seemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how to be perfect. Nemoto Kousei is amicable and popular with women, but he trusts no one and views everything with a cold heart. The two of them, who became unable to live instinctively like animals, meet by chance at a craft beer bar after work and gradually become close enough to fight and tell each other how they really feel. Due to their encounter, even while getting hurt, they begin to try to be themselves and start taking a step forward.Give My Regards to Kenshirō
7.857
Overview:
The series follows Koichi Numakura, a young man seeking revenge against the yakuza, who took his mother from him. Inspired by the protagonist of Fist of the North Star, he dedicates himself to learning the fictional martial art of Hokuto Shinken. Along the way he learns that, while he can't actually kill people, he does have all the qualifications to become a top-tier masseur.Tokyo Salad Bowl
8.2
Overview:
In Tokyo, police officer Mari Kouda and Chinese interpreter Ryo Arikino solve cases while bonding over meals from different cultures, forming an unexpected connection through their shared experiences.Uzukawamura Incident
7.3
Overview:
Akira Iwamori works as a doctor. He is looking for his wife, who went missing. He takes his daughter to visit his wife's hometown village of Uzukawa. While in Uzukawa, the village suddenly becomes isolated due to a landslide caused by heavy rain. The villagers becomes filled with anxiety and a murder takes place. The tense village people become violent. Akira is soon drawn into a power struggle in Uzukawa. He learns new information about his wife's whereabouts.Quartet
8.2
Overview:
Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.Sai
9
Overview:
A mysterious man appears before six individuals, each struggling with their own issues, as an impending disaster disrupts their lives, unraveling suspense and psychological tension.0.5 Man
8.364
Overview:
Masaharu "Masaji" Tachibana was a brilliant programmer who got burnt out and suddenly stopped showing up to work. He now lives at home with his parents and spends his time sleeping and playing video games. He only ventures out of his room to visit the local convenience store for more energy drinks and snacks, until one day he learns that his parents have decided to build a "2.5 family" house with his sister and her family joining them. Masaji is forced to acclimate and with the change of environment begins to venture out of his room and his own head.Smoking
6.9
Overview:
Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
8.7
Overview:
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanese financier Masahiko Washizu to do the job with only one instruction: buy them cheap and sell them high.Isle of Dogs
7.9
Overview:
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.The Raid 2
7.6
Overview:
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.Taboo
6.585
Overview:
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.Cutie Honey
6.302
Overview:
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.9 Souls
6.5
Overview:
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.Rampo Noir
5.7
Overview:
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.Blue Spring
7.076
Overview:
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.Otakus in Love
5.5
Overview:
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.The Suicide Song
5.2
Overview:
Original story by Yasushi AKIMOTO, writer of the mega hit movie One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) series. As the project was in development with an idea of an "infectious song (Densen-Uta)", one of the staff called out..."There was a real Densen-Uta!" He discovers on the internet of a song back in 1933, Hungary, which caused mysterious deaths of many people. In "Densen-Uta", high school girls get mixed up in the Japanese version of this infectious song, and with the help of third rate gossip magazine reporter, tries to solve the mystery and horror behind the song. They come to know just how real, an urban legend can become.Karaoke Terror
6
Overview:
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!Chosyu Five
NYR
Overview:
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").Before We Vanish
6.472
Overview:
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.Demon Pond
6.6
Overview:
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess, and a pact that can't be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism, and between social obligation and personal desire drive the narrative toward a dramatic conclusion where the worlds of the real and the surreal inevitablActing
2025Sai (6 Episodes) as Shinichiro Kuramoto
2025Transcending Dimensions as Shinno
2025Asura (7 Episodes) as Shizuo Katsumata
2025Tokyo Salad Bowl (9 Episodes) as Ryo Arikino
2024Who Were We? as Ao
2023Give My Regards to Kenshirō (6 Episodes) as Numakura Koichi
20230.5 Man (5 Episodes) as Tachibana Masaharu
2023Ichigeki as Shimada Konosuke
2022Uzukawamura Incident (6 Episodes) as Iwamori Akira
2021My Dear Exes (10 Episodes) as Hassaku Tanaka
2021チェインストーリー 大豆田とわ子を知らない三人の男たち (10 Episodes) as 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
2021ZOKKI as Fujimura
2021Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord as Shibata Katsuie
2020The Day of Destruction as Mr. Shinno
2020Beneath the Shadow as Hiasa Norihiro
2019A Stranger in Shanghai as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2019歪んだ波紋 (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2019Wolf's Calling as Samurai
2018Weakest Beast (10 Episodes) as Kosei Nemoto
2018The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan as Shoji Segawa
2018Smoking (12 Episodes) as Sakakibara Masayuki
2018Isle of Dogs as Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
2018The Scythian Lamb as Ichirō Miyakoshi
2017The Last Shot in the Bar as Takada
2017Before We Vanish as Shinji Kase
2017Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter as Zenjiro Ikeda
2017The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue as Tomoyuki
2017Quartet (10 Episodes) as Tsukasa Beppu
2016My Uncle as Uncle
2016Natsuko Kira (10 Episodes) as Keisuke Takagi
2016The Magnificent Nine as Moku Kayaba
2016The Mohican Comes Home as Eikichi Tamura
2015A Farewell to Jinu as Takeharu Takami
2014Disconcerto as 行天春彦
2014The Raid 2 as Keiichi
2013My Little Sweet Pea as Norio Koiwa
2013Detective in the Bar 2 as Takada
2013The Great Passage as Mitsuya Majime
2013Amachan (157 Episodes) as 水口琢磨
2013Tada's Do-It-All House (12 Episodes) as Gyoten Haruhiko
2012A Chorus of Angels as Isamu
2012I'm Flash! as Bodyguard
2011Phone Call to the Bar as Takada
2011Tada's Do-It-All House as Haruhiko Gyoten
2010Boys on the Run as Aoyama
2009Tsurugi-dake satsuei no ki hyōkō 3000 mētoru, gekitō no 873-nichi as Unknown
2009SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda as Unknown
2009Kanikôsen as Shinjo
2009The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Ikuta
2009The Vulture as Osamu Nishino
2009Nobody To Watch Over Me as Shogo Mishima
2009Can't Protect Anyone as Unknown
2008Nightmare Detective 2 as Kyoichi Kagenuma
2008Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (11 Episodes) as Yashiro Heita
2007Life Can Be So Wonderful as Shuichi
2007The Suicide Song as Riku Nagase
2007Tokyo Serendipity as Takashi Ohno
2007The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker as Kawasaki
2007The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as Tatsuji
2007Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth (6 Episodes) as Osamu Nishino
2007Nightmare Detective as Kyoichi Kagenuma
2006Chosyu Five as Yozo Yamao
2006Big Bang Love, Juvenile A as Jun Ariyoshi
2005Nana as Ren Honjou
2005Demon Pond as Unknown
2005Rampo Noir as Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
2005Synesthesia as Kaoru Homura
2004Otakus in Love as Mon Aoki
2004Izo as His Highness
2004Cutie Honey as NSA Client
2003Karaoke Terror as Ishihara
2003Happiness in August as Unknown
20039 Souls as Michiru Kaneko
2003Age 17 as Book Boy
2003Collage of Our Lives as Masato Segawa
2001Blue Spring as Kujo
2001Run Ichiro Run as Ryu Mochizuki
2001Love Ghost as Shibayama Ryuuhei
2000The 300 million yen robbery as Unknown
1999Taboo as Sozaburo Kano
Creator
2016Natsuko Kira ... Creator