Real name: Inoue Ryûichi

Guild: Otowaya

Line number: NIDAIME (II)

Birthday: 30 January 1985

Connections:

Father: Onoe Matsusuke VI

Career:

May 1990: he makes his first appearance on stage at the Kabukiza, receiving the name of Onoe Matsuya II and playing the role of Tsuruchiyo in the play "Meiboku Sendai Hagi".

March 2009: Kabuki adaptation by the famous stage director Ninagawa Yukio of Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night", which is titled "Ninagawa Jûniya", from the 24th to the 28th of March 2009 in London (UK) at the Barbican Theater; Matsuya plays the role of Kurio (Curio) [more details]. The same play is staged with the same casting in June 2009 at the Shimbashi Embujô and in July 2009 at the Shôchikuza.

Comments:

Onoe Matsuya II is a young promising actor of the Otowaya guild.

The mon of Onoe Matsuya II