Introduction
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.
Early life
Matsuda was born on 9 May 1983 in Tokyo to Yusaku Matsuda, a Japanese actor of partial Korean ancestry, and Miyuki Matsuda (née Kumagai), a Japanese actress. He has two younger siblings, a younger brother, Shota Matsuda, and a younger sister by his parents' marriage and one older half-sister by his father's first marriage. His father died from bladder cancer in 1989, when Ryuhei was 6 years old. He attended Horikoshi High School, a Japanese high school that caters to celebrity students, but did not graduate.
Career
At the age of 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 an upcoming sequel to the 2012 Indonesian film The Raid, named Berandal.
Personal life
On 11 January 2009, Matsuda married Lina Ohta (太田 莉菜 Ōta Rina), a Russian-Japanese model. Their first child, a baby girl, was born on 4 July 2009.
Filmography
Films
- Taboo (Gohatto) (1999)
- Shibito no Koiwazurai (2001)
- Hashire! Ichiro (2001)
- Blue Spring (2002)
- Collage of Our Life (Renai Shashin) (2003)
- 17 Sai (2003)
- 9 Souls as Michiru (2003)
- Hachigatsu no Kariyushi (2003)
- Showa Kayo Daizenshu (2003)
- Cutie Honey (2004)
- Izo (2004)
- Koi no Mon (2004)
- Yasha no Ike (2004)
- Nana (2005)
- Gimmy Heaven (2005)
- Rampo Noir (2005)
- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
- Nightmare Detective (2006)
- Chosyu Five (2006)
- Sekai ha Tokidoki Utsukushii (2007)
- Purukogi (2007)
- Koisuru Madori (2007)
- Ahiru to Kamo no Koinrokkâ (2007)
- Densen Uta (2007)
- Dare mo mamotte kurenai (2008)
- Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
- Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
- The Cannery Ship (Kanikosen) (2009)
- Hagetaka: The Movie (The Vulture) (2009)
- Boys on the Run (2010)
- The Detective Is in the Bar (2011)
- Tada's Do-It-All House (2011)
- The Great Passage (2013)
- Mugiko-san to (2013)
- The Detective Is in the Bar 2 (2013)
- The Raid 2 (2014)
- Jinuyo Saraba: Kamuroba Mura e (2015)
- The Magnificent Nine (2016)
- My Uncle (2016)
- Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da (2017)
- Strolling Invader (2017)
- The Detective Is in the Bar 3 (2017)
- Hitsuji no Ki (2018)
TV dramas
- San Oku-Yen Jiken (2000) - Roku
- Hagetaka (2007) - Osamu Nishino
- Ashita no Kita Yoshio (2008) - Heita Yashiro
- Tenchijin (2009) - Date Masamune
- Mahoro Ekimae Bangaichi (2013) - Haruhiko Gyōten
- Amachan (2013) - Takuma Mizuguchi
- Quartette (2017) - Tsukasa Beppu
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- 世界はときどき美しい. Sekaihatokidoki.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
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- 恋するマドリ. Koisurumadori.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
- アヒルと鴨のコインロッカー. Ahiru-kamo.jp (2007-06-23). Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
Awards
Matsuda won a Japanese Academy Award for the "Best Supporting Actor" in the 2011 film Tantei wa Bar ni Iru, and Nikkan Sports Film Award for the "Best Actor" in the 2013 film The Great Passage.