Kenichi Matsuyama
Birthday: 1985-03-05
Place of Birth: Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Kenichi Matsuyama (松山 ケンイチ, Matsuyama Ken'ichi, born March 5, 1985) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the Death Note animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010.
Movies
The Man who was Made a Fool by L the Most - Detective Matsuda's Case File
Matsuda's signature is needed on some final documents to wrap up the Kira case. However, Matsuda ref...
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Death Note: L Change the WorLd
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision eve...
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Detroit Metal City
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-sty...
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Bright Future
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...
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Bare Essence of Life
Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his ...
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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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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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Death Note
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utop...
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with...
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Death Note: The Last Name
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and fai...
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Kamui
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family....
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Prodigy
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before...
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We're Broke, My Lord!
A commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and subs...
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Sex Is No Laughing Matter
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teach...
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Gantz: Perfect Answer
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tire...
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Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko...
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes w...
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Bunny Drop
Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown ...
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Mio's Cookbook
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best fr...
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South Bound
Uehara Jiro, in the sixth year at elementary school, is from a family of five; his parents who are b...
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Vanished
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make ...
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My Back Page
In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journa...
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Homeland
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a sma...
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The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shiba...
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Train Brain Express
Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their ho...
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Tsubaki Sanjuro
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...
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Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga dram...
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Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the...
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Linda Linda Linda
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi ...
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Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decide...
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Chasuke's Journey
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away....
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Do Unto Others
A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing cen...
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1 Litre Of Tears SP
The Story of the 1 Litre of Tears special takes place after the events in the main drama. The Specia...
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Be-Bop High School
At Aitoku High School, repeat sophomores Kōji Katō and Tōru Nakama are bruiser fighters who scorn an...
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Legacy of Soma: Ao no Ran
Soma, an immigrant from a defeated country, lives as a fortuneteller in Japan. She is saved from cor...
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Rage
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their bloo...
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Chinyuki
Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens t...
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Another Gantz
Before finding out the Perfect Answer, discover Another Gantz. Aired on Nippon Television network be...
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Buddha 2: The Endless Journey
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his po...
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Saint Young Men The Movie ~Holy Men vs Demon Army~
There are saints living in Tokyo, Japan: Buddha the Enlightened One, and Jesus, Son of God. After su...
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Ten Nights of Dreams
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of...
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Gantz
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a myster...
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Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the s...
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Something Like, Something Like It
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytel...
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Dolphin Blue: Soar Again, Fuji
Kazuya Uemura is an American veterinarian who has just arrived at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. Uem...
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The Locker 2
Seconds before Reika (from the first movie) dies, she gives the key to a coin locker to her pupil Ay...
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Sekigahara
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...
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Yurigokoro
Ryosuke has a bright future. He just opened a successful restaurant and hopes to tie the knot soon w...
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The Day Kouhaku Was Born
This drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came ...
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Promare
Galo and the Burning Rescue Fire Department face off against BURNISH, a group of mutants who are abl...
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Custom Made 10.30
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their par...
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Death Note: Light Up the NEW World
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes t...
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The Emperor in August
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...
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Winning Pass
This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball...
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From Miyamoto to You
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the ...
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A Far Promise
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orpha...
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Promare / Side: Lio
A second prequel set one day before the events of the Promare film....
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Saint Young Men 2nd Century
SAINT☆YOUNG MEN 2nd Century imagines a world where Jesus Christ (Kenichi Matsuyama; Death Note) and ...
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Saint Young Men 3
A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha ...
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Yamato
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the pre...
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Brave: Gunjyou Senki
Students, including Aoi Nishino, take part in class and sports activity at a prestigious high school...
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Hotel Royal
Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the fa...
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Riverside Mukolitta
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, ...
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Blue
Nobuto, a dedicated boxer, can't seem to win a match, while his friend Kazuki is becoming a rising s...
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Saint Young Men
What if Jesus and Buddha were living on Earth in modern times? What if they shared an apartment in J...
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Noise
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing popul...
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Fortress of Skulls
Japan, 1590. Following the death of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's seizure of power, the myst...
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Furyo shonen no yume
In the cold region of Hokkaido, there is a Beiyou Yushi High School that specializes in recruiting h...
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Making of Death Note: The Last Name
Documentary on the second live action Death Note film....
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Oi, Dazai
Set by the seaside, this is a time-slip comedy about a man who adores Osamu Dazai and struggles to t...
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