Yoji Matsuda
Known For
Acting
Born
1967-10-19 in Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Yoji Matsuda (松田 洋治, Matsuda Yōji, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974. He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata). He appeared in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, and, in 1987, portrayed the main character Shuna in Shuna's Journey. In 1997, he voiced Ashitaka in the anime movie Princess Mononoke, and voiced Leonardo DiCaprio's role Jack Dawson in the American film Titanic to raise his profile. In 2006, he taught acting as a lecturer at Tokyo Animation College. He became active around the stage, working with directors such as Yukio Ninagawa and Yoji Aoi. He appeared in the drama From the North Country.
Most Known For
Kamen Rider
as Masahiko Okamura
Oshin
as Yuu
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
as MacLachlan Marshall (voice)
Princess Mononoke
as Ashitaka (voice)
Seven Detectives
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
as Asbel (voice)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Sojiro Takase (voice)
Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss!
as Kawahara
Kamen Rider Amazon
as Masahiko Okamura
Character
as Atsushi Henmi
The Old Man and the Sea
as (voice)
A Spirit of the Sun
as Genichirō Ryū (voice)
The Discarnates
as Script Reading
Takeshi-kun, Hai!
as Shujiro Nishino
Blood Type: Blue
Dogra Magra
as Ichiro Kure
Haruka, Nostalgia
as Hiroshi Saitoh
The Motive
as Rich young man
The Hidden Blade
