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.

Фільмографія

• 2026Bye Bye Love: Detective Is in the Bar — Takada
• Hey Detective, Your Backpack is Open! — Ichinose Yosuke
• 2026Sai: Disaster
• 2026The Secret Battlefield
• 2026UNDERGIRL — UNDERMAN
• Asura — Shizuo Katsumata
• Sai — Shinichiro Kuramoto
• Tokyo Salad Bowl — Ryo Arikino
• 2025Transcending Dimensions — Shinno
• 2025Unreachable
• 2024Who Were We? — Ao
• 0.5 Man — Tachibana Masaharu
• Give My Regards to Kenshirō — Numakura Koichi
• 2023Ichigeki — Shimada Konosuke
• Uzukawamura Incident — Iwamori Akira
• Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi — 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
• My Dear Exes — Hassaku Tanaka
• 2021Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord — Shibata Katsuie
• 2021ZOKKI — Fujimura
• 2020The Day of Destruction — Mr. Shinno
• 2019A Stranger in Shanghai — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• 2019Beneath the Shadow — Hiasa Norihiro
• Distorted Ripples — Masahiko Sawamura
• 2019Wolf's Calling — Samurai
• 歪んだ波紋
• Smoking — Sakakibara Masayuki
• 2018The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan — Shoji Segawa
• 2018The Scythian Lamb — Ichirō Miyakoshi
• Weakest Beast — Kosei Nemoto
• 2018Острів собак — Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
• 2017Before We Vanish — Shinji Kase
• 2017Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter — Zenjiro Ikeda
• Quartet — Tsukasa Beppu
• 2017The Last Shot in the Bar — Takada
• 2017The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue — Tomoyuki
• 2016My Uncle — Uncle
• Natsuko Kira — Keisuke Takagi, Creator
• 2016The Magnificent Nine — Moku Kayaba
• 2016The Mohican Comes Home — Eikichi Tamura
• 2015A Farewell to Jinu — Takeharu Takami
• 2014Disconcerto — Haruhiko Gyoten
• 2014Рейд 2 — Keiichi
• Amachan — Takuma Mizuguchi
• 2013Detective in the Bar — Takada
• 2013My Little Sweet Pea — Norio Koiwa
• Tada's Do-It-All House — Gyoten Haruhiko
• 2013The Great Passage — Mitsuya Majime
• 2012A Chorus of Angels — Isamu
• 2012I'm Flash! — Bodyguard
• Dōki — Ryouta Udagawa
• 2011Phone Call to the Bar — Takada
• 2011Tada's Do-It-All House — Haruhiko Gyoten
• 2010Boys on the Run — Aoyama
• 2009Can't Protect Anyone
• 2009Kanikôsen — Shinjo
• 2009Nobody To Watch Over Me — Shogo Mishima
• 2009Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
• 2009SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
• 2009The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity — Ikuta
• 2009The Vulture — Osamu Nishino
• 2009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！～」
• Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow — Yashiro Heita
• 2008Nightmare Detective 2 — Kyoichi Kagenuma
• Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth — Osamu Nishino
• 2007Life Can Be So Wonderful — Shuichi
• 2007Nightmare Detective — Kyoichi Kagenuma
• 2007The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker — Kawasaki
• 2007The Suicide Song — Riku Nagase
• 2007The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi — Tatsuji
• 2007Tokyo Serendipity — Takashi Ohno
• 2006Big Bang Love, Juvenile A — Jun Ariyoshi
• 2006Chosyu Five — Yozo Yamao
• 2005Demon Pond
• 2005Nana — Ren Honjou
• 2005Rampo Noir — Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
• 2005Synesthesia — Kaoru Homura
• 2004Cutie Honey — NSA Client
• 2004Izo — His Highness
• 2004Otakus in Love — Mon Aoki
• 20039 Souls — Michiru Kaneko
• 2003Age 17 — Book Boy
• 2003Collage of Our Lives — Masato Segawa
• 2003Happiness in August
• 2003Karaoke Terror — Ishihara
• 2001Love Ghost — Shibayama Ryuske
• 2001Run Ichiro Run — Ryu Mochizuki
• 2001Блакитна весна — Kujo
• 2000The 300 million yen robbery
• 1999Taboo — Sozaburo Kano

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (1)

• 2005Making of 9 Souls — Self