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.
Sai
Shinichiro Kuramoto · (6 episodes)
2025
Transcending Dimensions
Shinno
2025
Asura
Shizuo Katsumata · (7 episodes)
2025
Tokyo Salad Bowl
Ryo Arikino · (9 episodes)
2025
Who Were We?
Ao
2024
Give My Regards to Kenshirō
Numakura Koichi · (6 episodes)
2023
0.5 Man
Tachibana Masaharu · (5 episodes)
2023
Ichigeki
Shimada Konosuke
2023
Uzukawamura Incident
Iwamori Akira · (6 episodes)
2022
My Dear Exes
Hassaku Tanaka · (10 episodes)
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
田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku · (10 episodes)
2021
ZOKKI
Fujimura
2021
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Shibata Katsuie
2021
The Day of Destruction
Mr. Shinno
2020
Beneath the Shadow
Hiasa Norihiro
2020
A Stranger in Shanghai
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2019
歪んだ波紋
(8 episodes)
2019
Wolf's Calling
Samurai
2019
Weakest Beast
Kosei Nemoto · (10 episodes)
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Shoji Segawa
2018
Smoking
Sakakibara Masayuki · (12 episodes)
2018
Isle of Dogs
Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
2018
The Scythian Lamb
Ichirō Miyakoshi
2018
The Last Shot in the Bar
Takada
2017
Before We Vanish
Shinji Kase
2017
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Zenjiro Ikeda
2017
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Tomoyuki
2017
Quartet
Tsukasa Beppu · (10 episodes)
2017
My Uncle
Uncle
2016
Natsuko Kira
Keisuke Takagi · (10 episodes)
2016
The Magnificent Nine
Moku Kayaba
2016
The Mohican Comes Home
Eikichi Tamura
2016
A Farewell to Jinu
Takeharu Takami
2015
Disconcerto
Haruhiko Gyoten
2014
The Raid 2
Keiichi
2014
My Little Sweet Pea
Norio Koiwa
2013
Detective in the Bar 2
Takada
2013
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime
2013
Amachan
水口琢磨 · (157 episodes)
2013
Tada's Do-It-All House
Gyoten Haruhiko · (12 episodes)
2013
A Chorus of Angels
Isamu
2012
I'm Flash!
Bodyguard
2012
Phone Call to the Bar
Takada
2011
Tada's Do-It-All House
Haruhiko Gyoten
2011
Boys on the Run
Aoyama
2010
Tsurugi-dake satsuei no ki hyōkō 3000 mētoru, gekitō no 873-nichi
2009
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Kanikôsen
Shinjo
2009
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Ikuta
2009
The Vulture
Osamu Nishino
2009
Nobody To Watch Over Me
Shogo Mishima
2009
Can't Protect Anyone
2009
Nightmare Detective 2
Kyoichi Kagenuma
2008
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
Yashiro Heita · (11 episodes)
2008
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Shuichi
2007
The Suicide Song
Riku Nagase
2007
Tokyo Serendipity
Takashi Ohno
2007
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Kawasaki
2007
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Tatsuji
2007
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
Osamu Nishino · (6 episodes)
2007
Nightmare Detective
Kyoichi Kagenuma
2007
Chosyu Five
Yozo Yamao
2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Jun Ariyoshi
2006
Nana
Ren Honjou
2005
Demon Pond
2005
Rampo Noir
Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
2005
Synesthesia
Kaoru Homura
2005
Otakus in Love
Mon Aoki
2004
Izo
His Highness
2004
Cutie Honey
NSA Client
2004
Karaoke Terror
Ishihara
2003
Happiness in August
2003
9 Souls
Michiru Kaneko
2003
Age 17
Book Boy
2003
Collage of Our Lives
Masato Segawa
2003
Blue Spring
Kujo
2001
Run Ichiro Run
Ryu Mochizuki
2001
Love Ghost
Shibayama Ryuuhei
2001
The 300 million yen robbery
2000
Taboo
Sozaburo Kano
1999