FrameThrower · Actors · Ryuhei Matsuda
Ryuhei Matsuda
3 films · 160 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1999–2014
Born 9 May 1983 · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Ryuhei Matsuda 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".…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 160 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1999–2014
- Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year2010
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer2000
How their films are shot
Measured across 160 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ryuhei takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Ryuhei takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 160 frames from Ryuhei Matsuda's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.