Yūsaku Matsuda
Known for Acting · 39 credits
- Born
- 1949-09-21
- Died
- 1989-11-06
- Place of birth
- Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Also known as
- Yusaku Matsuda · Yūsaku Matsuda
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.
Known For
TV Shows (9)
Movies (30)
Black Rain
1989
as Sato
Proof of the Man
1977
as Detective Munesue
Kagero-za
1981
as Shungo Matsuzaki
The Family Game
1983
as Yoshimoto
A Homance
1986
as Kaze
The Beast to Die
1980
as Kunihiko Date
The Most Dangerous Game
1978
as Shouhei Narumi
A Chaos of Flowers
1988
as Takeo Arishima
The Assassination of Ryoma
1974
as Yûta
The Killing Game
1978
as Shohei Narumi
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
1979
as Tetsuya Asakura
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
as BJ
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
1980
as Insurance Salesman
And Then
1985
as Daisuke Nagai
Detective Story
1983
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
Horror of the Wolf
1973
as Dō Haguro
Wuthering Heights
1988
as Onimaru
The Classroom of Terror
1976
No Grave for Us
1979
as Katsuo Shima
Tomodachi
1974
The Execution Game
1979
as Shohei Narumi
The Four Roughnecks
1974
Dansen
1983
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Shi no dangai
1982
Murderer!
1976
as Futago Rokube
Target
1980
as Yûsaku Matsuda
Murder in the Doll House
1979
as Toshio Katsu
The Chaser
1989
as Naoya Kaneshiro
Ameyuki-san
1979
as Shinzaburō
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
About Yūsaku Matsuda
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 — dir… With 39 credits spanning from 1972 to 1989, Yūsaku Matsuda has appeared in 30 films and 9 TV shows.
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Most Popular Yūsaku Matsuda Movies
- Black Rain (1989) — as Sato
- Proof of the Man (1977) — as Detective Munesue
- Kagero-za (1981) — as Shungo Matsuzaki
- The Family Game (1983) — as Yoshimoto
- A Homance (1986) — as Kaze
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