Actor
Kenichi Matsuyama
33 credited titles on WatchWise
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.
Kenichi Matsuyama in one minute
Commercial performance
All figures are associated, not attributed — box-office numbers are sourced from TMDB and Wikipedia (reused under CC BY-SA), shown in US$, and weighted by billing prominence. Coverage varies by title; figures are estimates, not audited trade data.
What drives the index
1.3x return · 29% of films profitable · little recent work. Weighted toward recent releases (a film counts half as much every 6 years) and toward titles they actually carried.
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Titles are ones WatchWise has catalogued so far — not necessarily a complete filmography.
