Satoru Matsuo

Honestly, Satoru Matsuo is one of those guys where I clock his face mid-scene and immediately relax, like, okay, this production knows what it's doing. He's the quintessential Japanese character actor: the cop, the bureaucrat, the rumpled coworker who anchors a scene without ever begging for the spotlight. What I love is the range hiding inside that low-key vibe; he can play it dead serious one second and quietly hilarious the next, and you never quite see the gear shift. He's a tall guy, but there's zero swagger about it, which somehow makes him even more watchable. I don't think of him as a headline-grabber, more like connective tissue, the dependable presence that holds a drama together from the edge of the frame. To me that's a rarer, more valuable skill than people give it credit for.

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Satoru Matsuo is a Japanese actor born on December 7, 1975, in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Standing 177 cm tall, he is known as a prolific character actor who appears across Japanese television dramas and films. He maintains active social media accounts on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). Born in Amagasaki, he left Kwansei Gakuin University, moved to Tokyo in 2000, and is represented by FMG.

Name (English)

Satoru Matsuo

Name (Japanese)

松尾諭

Reading

まつお さとる

Born

December 7, 1975 (age 50)

Origin

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Height

177cm

Occupation

Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

Blood type

AB

Agency

FMG

Active years

2000 -

Works summary

Appearances

341 (2000–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2000: 1, 2001: 2, 2002: 3, 2004: 2, 2005: 4, 2006: 3, 2007: 5, 2008: 11, 2009: 16, 2010: 8, 2011: 14, 2012: 21, 2013: 22, 2014: 12, 2015: 17, 2016: 24, 2017: 26, 2018: 18, 2019: 24, 2020: 23, 2021: 7, 2022: 16, 2023: 8, 2024: 11, 2025: 14, 2026: 7, year unknown: 22

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/satoru_matsuo/
• Xhttps://x.com/matsuo_satoru
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B0%BE%E8%AB%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11529701

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.