Ryuhei Matsuda

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.

Ryuhei Matsuda
松田 龍平
Ryuhei at Cannes Film Festival in 2000
Born (1983-05-09) 9 May 1983
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
OccupationActor
Years active1999–present
Spouses
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(m. 2009; div. 2017)​
    Mala Morgan
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    (m. 2021)​
    Children1
    Websitewww.office-saku.com/artists/ryuhei_matsuda.html

    Early life

    Matsuda was born on 9 May 1983 in Tokyo, to Yūsaku Matsuda, a Japanese actor of partial Korean ancestry,[1] 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 six years old.[2] He attended Horikoshi High School, a Japanese high school that caters to celebrity students, but did not graduate.[3]

    Career

    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.[4]

    In 2020 portrayed Ryūnosuke Akutagawa in the film A Stranger in Shanghai. It depicts Akutagawa's time in as a reporter in the city.[5]

    Personal life

    On 11 January 2009, Matsuda married Rina Ōta (太田 莉菜, Ōta Rina), a Russian-Japanese model.[6] Their first child, a girl, was born on 4 July 2009.[6] They divorced in December 2017.[7]

    On 20 October 2021, Matsuda married Mala Morgan (モーガン茉愛羅, Mōgan Maara), a British-Japanese model.[8]

    Filmography

    Films

    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
    • Quartet (2017) - Tsukasa Beppu
    • Kurara: Hokusai no Musume (2017) - Zenjirō
    • Kemono ni Narenai Watashitachi (2018) - Kosei Nemoto
    • Smoking (2018) - Masayuki Sakakibara
    • Yuganda Hamon (2019) - Masahiko Sawamura
    • Idaten (2019) - Kenzō Tange
    • A Stranger in Shanghai (2019) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    • Okehazama (2021) - Shibata Katsuie[18]
    • My Dear Exes (2021) - Hassaku Tanaka
    • Uzukawamura Jiken (2022) - Iwamori[19]

    Awards

    Matsuda won a Japanese Academy Award for the "Best Supporting Actor" in the 2011 film Tantei wa Bar ni Iru,[20] and Nikkan Sports Film Award for the "Best Actor" in the 2013 film The Great Passage.[21]

    References
    1. Matsuda, Michiko (2008). Ekkyōsha-Matsuda Yūsaku [Border-transgressor Yusaku Matsuda] (in Japanese). Shinchosha. ISBN 978-4-10-306451-0.
    2. Yusaku Matsuda. Nipponcinema.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    3. Ryuhei Matsuda. Nipponcinema.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    4. "Matsuda Ryuhei, Endo Kenichi and Kitamura Kazuki Joining THE RAID 2: BERANDAL | Twitch". Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
    5. World-Japan, Nhk (3 December 2019). "A Stranger in Shanghai, Dramatic Film that Captures Tumult of 1920's Shanghai, Makes International Broadcast Premiere on NHK WORLD-JAPAN December 27, 28". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
    6. First child for Ryuhei Matsuda, Lina Ohta. Tokyograph. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    7. "Matsuda Ryuhei & Ohta Rina reported to be getting a divorce". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
    8. "松田龍平、モーガン茉愛羅と結婚 妊娠中で来春出産予定 交際３年半 - 結婚・熱愛 : 日刊スポーツ". nikkansports.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 October 2021.
    9. Tom Mes (4 September 2003). "9 Souls". Midnight Eye.
    10. 映画「長州ファイブ -CHOSYU Five-」ウェブサイト. Chosyufive-movie.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    11. 世界はときどき美しい Archived 17 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Sekaihatokidoki.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    12. yakiniku-movie.com Archived 22 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine. yakiniku-movie.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    13. 恋するマドリ. Koisurumadori.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
    14. アヒルと鴨のコインロッカー. Ahiru-kamo.jp (23 June 2007).
    15. "吉岡里帆、鈴木福、満島真之介ら映画『ゾッキ』に豪華キャスト18名". Cinematoday. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
    16. "HAF reveals 15 Work-in-Progress projects for 2023 edition". Screen Daily. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
    17. "次元を超える TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS". eiga.com. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
    18. "市川海老蔵主演「桶狭間」緊急放送決定 映像作品で親子初共演も". Sankei Shimbun. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
    19. "松田龍平主演ドラマ「鵜頭川村事件」に蓮佛美沙子、伊武雅刀、工藤阿須加、山田杏奈ら". Natalie. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
    20. Asianfanatics[Usurped!]
    21. Ma, Kevin. "Great Passage tops 38th Hochi Film Awards". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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