Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 21, 1949
Died
Nov 06, 1989
Place of Birth
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Credits
39 titles
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
Filmography
The Chaser
Naoya Kaneshiro
Black Rain
Sato
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
A Homance
Kaze
追う男
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Nettaiya
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
The Family Game
Sho Yoshimoto
Cliff of Death
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
Zoku zoku jiken
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
Ameyuki-san
Shinzaburō
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
Fushoku no kōzō
Omachi Shinichi
Big City: Days of Struggle
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
The Classroom of Terror
Our Medal
Nakano Yuji
The Four Roughnecks
Red Maze
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
Tomodachi
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan)