Ryuhei Matsuda
Birthday: 1983-05-09
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Cutie Honey
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use he...
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Taboo
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
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The Suicide Song
Original story by Yasushi AKIMOTO, writer of the mega hit movie One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) seri...
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Ichigeki
The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmer...
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Demon Pond
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magica...
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Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
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Blue Spring
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the vi...
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Who Were We?
On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the f...
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Nana
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O...
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Nightmare Detective
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is calle...
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Karaoke Terror
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him ...
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Boys on the Run
A socially awkward salesman for a toy-capsule company tries to change his nerdy ways when a slick ri...
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Phone Call to the Bar
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with h...
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Nightmare Detective 2
A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave vic...
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Chosyu Five
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and ...
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Synesthesia
Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to...
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Collage of Our Lives
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo e...
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Tokyo Serendipity
Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent li...
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan....
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I'm Flash!
Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention fr...
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The Great Passage
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that...
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A Chorus of Angels
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she take...
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Detective in the Bar 2
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source w...
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Nobody To Watch Over Me
A 15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her br...
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The Raid 2
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and...
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Tada's Do-It-All House
In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, ...
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My Little Sweet Pea
It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to beco...
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The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learni...
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Disconcerto
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver fo...
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Transcending Dimensions
Rosuke, a monk, has gone missing. His lover, Nonoka, takes the assassin Shinno to a religious facili...
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Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
Army surveying team attempted to scale Mount Tsurugi, a peak never before reached by humans, in orde...
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9 Souls
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track dow...
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Kanikôsen
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserab...
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Run Ichiro Run
Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball p...
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Rampo Noir
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo....
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Love Ghost
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discov...
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Age 17
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls a...
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Happiness in August
Teru, a 17-year-old high school student, goes to live at a relative's house in Okinawa after the dea...
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Life Can Be So Wonderful
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan....
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The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious T...
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The Vulture
A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and s...
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The 300 million yen robbery
The 300 million yen robbery (San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident...
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Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...
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A Farewell to Jinu
Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not ...
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Otakus in Love
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay....
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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion...
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The Mohican Comes Home
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but ...
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The Magnificent Nine
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzab...
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The Scythian Lamb
Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, wh...
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Before We Vanish
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
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My Uncle
Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at...
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The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind ...
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The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people ...
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The Last Shot in the Bar
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner...
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Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika ...
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Isle of Dogs
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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Beneath the Shadow
From coworkers to close friends, Konno and Hiasa drift apart. When Hiasa goes missing, Konno must fa...
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facilit...
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The Day of Destruction
Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a p...
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Wolf's Calling
A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samura...
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A Stranger in Shanghai
China is tumultuous in 1921 when the famed Japanese author of "Rashōmon", Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, visit...
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ZOKKI
Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puer...
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Sai: Disaster
Four people lead ordinary lives in different places, their paths never crossing. A mysterious man ap...
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Unreachable
Three young women live together in an old house in a corner of Tokyo. They are not related by blood,...
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