Kenji Matsuda
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is a Japan
ese 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.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. Matsuda began acting in high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
when a girl he had a crush on convinced him to join the theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
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
Kamen Rider Zanki
is one of the many Oni Kamen Riders in the 2005 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Hibiki. His name literally means .Home to the greatest Croatian Josip Zanki-Zaoumaru Zaitsuhara - Zanki:...
in the Tokusatsu
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series Kamen Rider Hibiki
Kamen Rider Hibiki
is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the fifteenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. Kamen Rider Hibiki first aired on January 30, 2005 and aired its final episode on January...
(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
Kamen Rider Decade
is the title of the first of the 2009 editions of the long-running Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu dramas. Decade, as its title suggests, is the tenth of the Heisei Rider Series, having begun with Kamen Rider Kuuga in 2000...
), and Jiro/Garulu, the last of the Wolfen, from Kamen Rider Kiva
Kamen Rider Kiva
is the title of the 2008 Kamen Rider Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions. It premiered on January 27, 2008, following the finale of Kamen Rider Den-O. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2008 Super Hero Time block with Engine Sentai Go-onger...
. 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
Ryuhei Kitamura
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's pop culture hit film, Versus
Versus (film)
is a 2000 Japanese action/horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura.-Synopsis:After escaping from police custody, Prisoner KSC2-303 and a fellow escapee join with a group of mobsters in a forest that is one of the 666 portals that act as a connection between this world and the next, called "The...
. He has also lent his voice to the Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
video game Dragon Quest Swords as the hero's father, Baud.