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Yūsaku Matsuda

Yūsaku Matsuda

Actor · Born 1949-09-21 · Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

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Biography

Yūsaku Matsuda was a Japanese actor. He was born in Shimonoseki, to a Japanese father and a Zainichi Korean mother. He became an actor when he was 23 as a rookie police officer for the 1970s Japanese TV detective drama called Taiyō ni hoero! Apart from this role, his other defining role on television was in Tantei monogatari. He featured in many other TV shows and movies. He won the award for best actor at the 8th Hochi Film Award for Detective Story and The Family Game. He specialized in physical action movies. The 1989 movie Black Rain — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia— opened the door for Matsuda as an international actor. However, shortly after he made this movie, he died due to bladder cancer. He was survived by his second wife and three young children.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Black Rain (1989) — Sato
  2. Kagero-za (1981) — Shungo Matsuzaki
  3. The Family Game (1983) — Sho Yoshimoto
  4. And Then (1985) — Daisuke Nagai
  5. The Beast to Die (1980) — Kunihiko Date
  6. Proof of the Man (1977) — Detective Munesue
  7. The Assassination of Ryoma (1974) — Yûta
  8. The Most Dangerous Game (1978) — Shouhei Narumi
  9. Wuthering Heights (1988) — Onimaru
  10. The Execution Game (1979) — Shohei Narumi
  11. The Killing Game (1978) — Shohei Narumi
  12. The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979) — Tetsuya Asakura
  13. Yokohama BJ Blues (1981) — BJ
  14. No Grave for Us (1979) — Katsuo Shima
  15. Rape Hunter: Target Woman (1980) — Insurance Salesman
  16. Detective Story (1983) — Shuichi Tsujiyama
  17. A Homance (1986) — Kaze
  18. Detective Story (1979) — Shunsaku Kudo
  19. Murder in the Doll House (1979) — Toshio Katsu
  20. Horror of the Wolf (1973) — Dō Haguro
  21. The Classroom of Terror (1976)
  22. A Chaos of Flowers (1988) — Takeo Arishima
  23. Murderer! (1976) — Futago Rokube
  24. Dansen (1983) — Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
  25. The Four Roughnecks (1974)
  26. Target (1980) — Yûsaku Matsuda
  27. The Chaser (1989) — Naoya Kaneshiro
  28. Bark at the Sun (1972) — Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
  29. Cliff of Death (1982)
  30. Tomodachi (1974)
  31. Ameyuki-san (1979) — Shinzaburō
  32. Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana (1988)
  33. Nettaiya (1983)
  34. Red Maze (1974)
  35. 追う男 (1986)
  36. Zoku zoku jiken (1980)
  37. Fushoku no kōzō (1977) — Omachi Shinichi
  38. Big City: Days of Struggle (1976)
  39. Our Medal (1975) — Nakano Yuji

Directed

  1. A Homance (1986) — Director