Kenichi Matsuyama (Actor)

Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor from Aomori Prefecture.

Native name: 松山ケンイチ (MATSUYAMA Kenichi)
Occupation: Actor
Birthplace: Aomori Prefecture
Born: March 4, 1985 (age 31)
Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
Blood type: B
Debuted: 2001
Spouse: Koyuki (married 2011)
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Filmography as actor

Year	Movie	Role
2015	No Yona mono no Yona mono	Shinden
2015	The Emperor in August
2015	Chasuke's Journey	Chasuke
2014	Climbing to Spring	Toru Nagamine
2014	Homeland	Jiro Sawada
2014	Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha 2	Tatta
2013	The Kiyosu Conference	Hori Hidemasa
2011	Train Brain Express	Kei Komachi
2011	Bunny Drop	Daikichi Kawachi
2011	My Back Page
2011	Gantz II: Perfect Answer
2011	GANTZ	Kato
2010	Norwegian Wood	Watanabe
2010	Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac	Yuji Miwa
2009	Kaiji	Makoto Sahara
2009	Kamui Gaiden	Kamui
2008	Detroit Metal City	Soichi Negishi
2008	Death Note: L, change the WorLd	L
2007	Shindo	Wao
2007	Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
2006	Ten Nights of Dreams	The 10th Night
2006	Death Note: the Last name	L
2006	Death Note	L
2005	Yamato	Katsumi Kamio, 15 years old
2005	Custom Made 10.30
2005	Nana	Shin
2005	Linda Linda Linda
2004	The Taste of Tea	Young man in red t-shirt
2003	Bright Future	Jun

Latest news

Kenichi Matsuyama to star in Fukushima-set film “Ieji”

Today it was announced that actor Kenichi Matsuyama will star in the upcoming movie Ieji (lit. “the road home”), a family drama set in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011.In the film,...

3 years ago
Kenichi Matsuyama to star in "Haru wo Seotte"

On Wednesday it was announced that Kenichi Matsuyama will star in veteran cinematographer Daisaku Kimura’s second film as a director, Haru wo Seotte.Matsuyama will play protagonist Toru Nagamine, a...

3 years ago
Eita and Kenichi Matsuyama to star in “Train Brain Express”

Eita (27) and Kenichi Matsuyama (25) will be co-starring as train otaku in a new movie by Yoshimitsu Morita (The Family Game, The Mamiya Brothers) called Bokutachi Kyūkō - A Ressha de Ikō (English...

6 years ago
Review: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Based on a 2007 novel by Gabrielle Zevin which struck a chord with teens, the film version of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita) is quite unique among adaptations of...

6 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki and Kenichi Matsuyama to star in Nobuhiro Yamashita’s “My Back Page”

It’s been known for a while now that Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, A Gentle Breeze in the Village) was working on a new film, thanks to a mysterious listing added to IMDb a while back for...

6 years ago
2 live-action “Gantz” movies coming in 2011

Director Shinsuke Sato is set to start working on the first of two live-action Gantz films based on Hiroya Oku’s manga sometime next month. The two lead roles will be played by Kazunari Ninomiya of...

7 years ago
Kenichi Matsuyama and Rinko Kikuchi cast in Anh Hung Tran’s “Norwegian Wood”

Kenichi Matsuyama (24), Rinko Kikuchi (28), and Kiko Mizuhara (18) have been cast in Anh Hung Tran’s upcoming adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s internationally best-selling 1987 novel “Norwegian...

7 years ago
Top 5 Moments From Death Note I & II

MTV Iggy has put together a video clip of their top 5 favorite moments from live-action Death Note and Death Note II: The Last Name. But the real story here is that MTV actually started an...

7 years ago