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Yoji Matsuda

Acting Born Oct 19, 1967 Tokyo, Japan 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Kamen Rider

as Masahiko Okamura
Film

Princess Mononoke

as Ashitaka (voice)

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

as MacLachlan Marshall (voice)
Film

Warriors of the Wind

as Asbel (voice)
Film

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

as Sojiro Takase (voice)

The World Is Dancing

as Inuo (voice)

Full filmography

  • Kamen Rider (1971) as Masahiko Okamura
  • Princess Mononoke (1997) as Ashitaka (voice)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002) as MacLachlan Marshall (voice)
  • Oshin (1983) as Yuu
  • Seven Detectives (2015)
  • Warriors of the Wind (1984) as Asbel (voice)
  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) as Sojiro Takase (voice)
  • Kamen Rider Amazon (1974) as Masahiko Okamura
  • Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss! (2022) as Kawahara
  • Takeshi-kun, Hai! (1985) as Shujiro Nishino
  • The World Is Dancing (2026) as Inuo (voice)
  • Character (2021) as Atsushi Henmi
  • Scan Doll (1996) as Katsumi
  • A Spirit of the Sun (2006) as Genichirō Ryū (voice)
  • Dogra Magra (1988) as Ichiro Kure
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1999) as (voice)
  • The Stupid Teacher (2000) as Young soldier
  • Haruka, Nostalgia (1993) as Hiroshi Saitoh
  • The Discarnates (1988) as Script Reading
  • The Hidden Blade (2004)
  • Blood Type: Blue (1978)
  • The Motive (2004) as Rich young man
  • Turning Point (1994)
  • The Glorious Asuka Gang! (1988) as Kasuga