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Ryuhei Matsuda

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Ryuhei Matsuda
松田まつだ 龍平りゅうへい
Ryuhei at Cannes Film Festival in 2000
Born (1983-05-09) 9 May 1983 (age 41)
OccupationActor
Years active1999–present
Spouses
  • (m. 2009; div. 2017)
  • (m. 2021)
Children2
Parent(s)Yūsaku Matsuda (father)
Miyuki Matsuda (mother)
Relatives
Websitewww.office-saku.com

Ryuhei Matsuda (松田まつだ 龍平りゅうへい, 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

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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, who is also an actor, and a younger sister, Yuuki Matsuda, who is a singer, 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

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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".[citation needed]

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

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On 11 January 2009, Matsuda married model and actress Rina Ōta (太田おおた 莉菜りな, Ōta Rina), the two met through a mutual friend in the fall of 2007 and soon began dating.[6] The pair share one child together, a daughter, born on 4 July 2009.[6] They divorced in December 2017.[7]

On 20 October 2021, Matsuda married Japanese-British model Maria Morgan, who is 14 years younger than him.[8] In 12 March 2022, the two welcomed the birth of Matsuda's second and Morgan's first child, a son.[9]

Filmography

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Films

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TV dramas

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  • 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: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter (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[19]
  • My Dear Exes (2021) - Hassaku Tanaka
  • Uzukawamura Jiken (2022) - Iwamori[20]

Awards

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Matsuda won a Japanese Academy Award for the "Best Supporting Actor" in the 2011 film Tantei wa Bar ni Iru,[21] and Nikkan Sports Film Award for the "Best Actor" in the 2013 film The Great Passage.[22]

References

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  1. ^ Matsuda, Michiko (2008). Ekkyōsha-Matsuda Yūsaku [Border-transgressor Yusaku Matsuda] (in Japanese). Shinchosha. ISBN 978-4-10-306451-0.
  2. ^ Yusaku Matsuda Archived 1 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Nipponcinema.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
  3. ^ Ryuhei Matsuda Archived 31 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine. 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. ^ a b First child for Ryuhei Matsuda, Lina Ohta Archived 31 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Tokyograph. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
  7. ^ "松田まつだ龍平りゅうへいおもいつながった」史上しじょうはつ父子ふし主演しゅえん男優だんゆうしょう報知ほうち映画えいがしょう" [Matsuda Ryuhei & Ohta Rina reported to be getting a divorce]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). Hochi Shimbun. 27 November 2013. Archived from the original on 21 January 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  8. ^ "松田まつだ龍平りゅうへい、モーガン茉愛結婚けっこん 妊娠にんしんちゅう来春らいしゅん出産しゅっさん予定よてい 交際こうさいねんはん - 結婚けっこん熱愛ねつあい : 日刊にっかんスポーツ". nikkansports.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  9. ^ "松田まつだ龍平りゅうへいつま・モーガン茉愛男児だんじ出産しゅっさん報告ほうこく一人ひとりあいだとして、そしてははとして、これからも成長せいちょう」" [Ryuhei Matsuda's wife, Morgan Maria, announces the birth of a baby boy: "He will continue to grow as a person and as a mother"]. ORICON NEWS. 14 March 2022. Archived from the original on 27 April 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  10. ^ Tom Mes (4 September 2003). "9 Souls". Midnight Eye. Archived from the original on 14 March 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  11. ^ 映画えいが長州ちょうしゅうファイブ -CHOSYU Five-」ウェブサイト Archived 21 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Chosyufive-movie.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
  12. ^ 世界せかいはときどきうつくしい Archived 17 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Sekaihatokidoki.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
  13. ^ yakiniku-movie.com Archived 22 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine. yakiniku-movie.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
  14. ^ こいするマドリ Archived 4 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Koisurumadori.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-26.
  15. ^ アヒルとかものコインロッカー Archived 16 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Ahiru-kamo.jp (23 June 2007).
  16. ^ "吉岡よしおかさと鈴木すずきぶく満島みつしま真之まさゆきかい映画えいが『ゾッキ』に豪華ごうかキャスト18めい". Cinematoday. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  17. ^ "HAF reveals 15 Work-in-Progress projects for 2023 edition". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  18. ^ "次元じげんえる TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS". eiga.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  19. ^ "市川いちかわ海老蔵えびぞう主演しゅえんおけ狭間はざま緊急きんきゅう放送ほうそう決定けってい 映像えいぞう作品さくひん親子おやこはつ共演きょうえんも". Sankei Shimbun. 3 February 2021. Archived from the original on 3 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  20. ^ "松田まつだ龍平りゅうへい主演しゅえんドラマ「頭川ずかわむら事件じけん」にはちすふつ美沙子みさこ伊武いぶ雅刀まさとう工藤くどう阿須あず山田やまだ杏奈あんなら". Natalie. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  21. ^ Asianfanatics[usurped]
  22. ^ 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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