Kenji Matsuda

Kenji Matsuda
Born	23 September 1971 (1971-09-23) (age 40) Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Actor

Kenji Matsuda (松田 賢二, Matsuda Kenji^?, born September 23, 1971 in Osaka) is a Japanese actor. Matsuda began acting in high school when a girl he had a crush on convinced him to join the theatre club. He later joined the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe Haiyu-Za. Nowadays known for roles such as Kagero in the low budget films Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi, 2002, and its sequels Shinobi: Runaway, 2005 (not related to the 2005 film Shinobi: Heart Under Blade), Shinobi: Hidden Techniques, and Shinobi: A Way Out. Probably best known in Japan as Zaoumaru Zaitsuhara/Kamen Rider Zanki in the Tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Hibiki (2005–2006) (as well as related characters: Buddhist monk Kamen Rider Touki in the movie special - a Sengoku-era version of Zanki - and an alternate Zanki from the Hibiki World as depicted in Kamen Rider Decade), and Jiro/Garulu, the last of the Wolfen, from Kamen Rider Kiva. He has also made brief cameos in Kamen Rider G and Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship.

He is most internationally known, however, for his role as the butterfly knife-wielding gangster in Ryuhei Kitamura's pop culture hit film, Versus. He has also lent his voice to the Wii video game Dragon Quest Swords as the hero's father, Baud.

External links

• Official blog (Japanese)
• Kenji Matsuda at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Matsuda, Kenji
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Date of birth	September 23, 1971
Place of birth	Osaka, Japan
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