Yūsaku Matsuda
Acting
Born: 1949-09-21 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
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
Big City: Days of Struggle
Black Rain
Sato
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo
Fushoku no kōzō
Omachi Shinichi
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
The Family Game
Sho Yoshimoto
Red Maze
Zoku zoku jiken
Nettaiya
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
The Four Roughnecks
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
Ameyuki-san
Shinzaburō
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
A Homance
Kaze
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
The Classroom of Terror
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
Cliff of Death
追う男
Tomodachi
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
The Chaser
Naoya Kaneshiro
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
Our Medal
Nakano Yuji
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga