Kenichi Matsuyama
Kenichi Matsuyama (松山 ケンイチ, Matsuyama Ken'ichi, born March 5, 1985) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the Death Note animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.24 |
| Birthday | 1985-03-05 |
| Place of Birth | Aomori Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Мацуяма Кэнъити, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, 마츠야마 켄이치, 松山研一, Matsuyama Kenichi, |
2007
The Man who was Made a Fool by L the Most - Detective Matsuda's Case File
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Matsuda's signature is needed on some final documents to wrap up the Kira case. However, Matsuda refuses to sign. Seeking closure, Soichiro Yagami tel...
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The Man who was Made a Fool by L the Most - Detective Matsuda's Case File
2008
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
6/277
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are onl...
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Death Note: L Change the WorLd
2008
Detroit Metal City
6.41/61
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the deat...
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Detroit Metal City
2003
Bright Future
6.9/45
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
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Bright Future
2009
Bare Essence of Life
6/10
Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations. H...
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Bare Essence of Life
2005
Nana
6.732/95
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Desp...
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Nana
2004
The Taste of Tea
7.475/139
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project...
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The Taste of Tea
2006
Death Note
7.055/704
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the...
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Death Note
2009
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
6.8/73
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling,...
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
2006
Death Note: The Last Name
7/495
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named...
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Death Note: The Last Name
2009
Kamui
6.089/45
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
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Kamui
2007
Prodigy
7.1/7
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point wh...
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2023
We're Broke, My Lord!
7.2/8
Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for...
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We're Broke, My Lord!
2008
Sex Is No Laughing Matter
6.2/28
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical coll...
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hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
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2011
Gantz: Perfect Answer
6.7/212
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
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Gantz: Perfect Answer
2010
Norwegian Wood
6.3/211
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outg...
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Norwegian Wood
2010
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
5.6/16
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must r...
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
2011
Bunny Drop
7/71
Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 y...
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Bunny Drop
2020
Mio's Cookbook
7.6/14
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cook...
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Mio's Cookbook
2007
South Bound
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Uehara Jiro, in the sixth year at elementary school, is from a family of five; his parents who are both ex-extremists, his elder sister and a younger...
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South Bound
2006
Vanished
5.6/5
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon di...
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Vanished
2011
My Back Page
5.1/4
In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawad...
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My Back Page
2014
Homeland
5.7/3
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire vil...
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Homeland
2013
The Kiyosu Conference
6.524/21
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki...
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The Kiyosu Conference
2012
Train Brain Express
6/1
Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their hobby proves useful for their burgeoning careers, bu...
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Train Brain Express
2007
Tsubaki Sanjuro
6.8/4
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He use...
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Tsubaki Sanjuro
2022
Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
8/2
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino,...
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Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
2014
Climbing to Spring
7.2/5
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountai...
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Climbing to Spring
2005
Linda Linda Linda
7.4/109
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for thei...
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Linda Linda Linda
2003
Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
3.5/2
A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decides to bring her home and lock her up in a secret ba...
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Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
2015
Chasuke's Journey
6.2/10
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwell...
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Chasuke's Journey
2023
Do Unto Others
7.8/12
A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing centre are found. The passing of 42 elderly patients...
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Do Unto Others
2007
1 Litre Of Tears SP
4/2
The Story of the 1 Litre of Tears special takes place after the events in the main drama. The Special takes the view of Asou Haruto who is remembering...
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1 Litre Of Tears SP
2004
Be-Bop High School
5.5/2
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2015
Legacy of Soma: Ao no Ran
5/3
Soma, an immigrant from a defeated country, lives as a fortuneteller in Japan. She is saved from corrupt court officials by Kojiro Masakado, a warrior...
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Legacy of Soma: Ao no Ran
2016
Rage
6.8/72
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees....
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2016
Chinyuki
5.1/7
Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens to visit a house and meets an old couple. The coupl...
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Chinyuki
2011
Another Gantz
7/48
Before finding out the Perfect Answer, discover Another Gantz. Aired on Nippon Television network before the theatrical release of Gantz: The Perfect...
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Another Gantz
2014
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey
7.7/45
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a st...
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2024
Saint Young Men The Movie ~Holy Men vs Demon Army~
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There are saints living in Tokyo, Japan: Buddha the Enlightened One, and Jesus, Son of God. After successfully bringing the previous century to a clos...
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2007
Ten Nights of Dreams
6.4/14
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to...
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Ten Nights of Dreams
2010
Gantz
6.6/305
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and...
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Gantz
2016
Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow
6.3/7
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an intractable...
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Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow
2016
Something Like, Something Like It
10/3
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his s...
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Something Like, Something Like It
2007
Dolphin Blue: Soar Again, Fuji
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2004
The Locker 2
4.7/14
Seconds before Reika (from the first movie) dies, she gives the key to a coin locker to her pupil Ayano. After a hunt for the right coin locker, Ayano...
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The Locker 2
2017
Sekigahara
6.9/41
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the...
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Sekigahara
2017
Yurigokoro
7.4/19
Ryosuke has a bright future. He just opened a successful restaurant and hopes to tie the knot soon with his alluring girlfriend. But then his father d...
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Yurigokoro
2015
The Day Kouhaku Was Born
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This drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came about in 1945, when the country was under General...
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The Day Kouhaku Was Born
2019
Promare
7.1/274
Galo and the Burning Rescue Fire Department face off against BURNISH, a group of mutants who are able to control and wield flames, and the fire disast...
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Promare
2005
Custom Made 10.30
8/2
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima w...
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Custom Made 10.30
2016
Death Note: Light Up the NEW World
6.4/160
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls...
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Death Note: Light Up the NEW World
2019
Promare / Side: Galo
7.3/25
A prequel to Promare, set one day before the events of the film.
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2015
The Emperor in August
6.3/13
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nigh...
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The Emperor in August
2004
Winning Pass
0/0
This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where h...
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Winning Pass
2019
From Miyamoto to You
6.1/12
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced ma...
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From Miyamoto to You
2014
A Far Promise
0/0
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orphans of Manchuria refugee camp who had to struggled...
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A Far Promise
2019
Promare / Side: Lio
6.9/26
A second prequel set one day before the events of the Promare film.
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Promare / Side: Lio
2019
Saint Young Men 2nd Century
0/0
SAINT☆YOUNG MEN 2nd Century imagines a world where Jesus Christ (Kenichi Matsuyama; Death Note) and Gautama Buddha (Shōta Sometani; Himizu) take a vac...
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Saint Young Men 2nd Century
2020
Saint Young Men 3
0/0
A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha and the son of god Jesus, form an effort to make j...
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Saint Young Men 3
2005
Yamato
5.4/35
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of...
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Yamato
2021
Brave: Gunjyou Senki
6.8/11
Students, including Aoi Nishino, take part in class and sports activity at a prestigious high school. Aoi Nishino is a member of the school's archery...
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Brave: Gunjyou Senki
2020
Hotel Royal
5.2/6
Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the family that runs the hotel, and the hotel's staff. M...
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Hotel Royal
2021
Riverside Mukolitta
6.5/14
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.
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Riverside Mukolitta
2005
Be-Bop High School 2
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2021
Blue
6.7/10
Nobuto, a dedicated boxer, can't seem to win a match, while his friend Kazuki is becoming a rising star and may win the championship. Meanwhile, Kazuk...
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2018
Saint Young Men
2.5/2
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2022
Noise
5.8/10
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsu...
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Noise
2019
Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Wind
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In Japan in the 1590s, the wandering samurai gathered to fight the nobles of the Skull Castle. In the performance of the "Wind" version that is shown...
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Fortress of Skulls (Dokurojo no Shichinin Kaze)
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