Yūsaku Matsuda
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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
Credits
Black Rain (1989)
as Sato
Ameyuki-san (1979)
as Shinzaburō
Kagero-za (1981)
as Shungo Matsuzaki
Proof of the Man (1977)
as Detective Munesue
A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
as Takeo Arishima
The Beast to Die (1980)
as Kunihiko Date
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana (1988)
Actor
Wuthering Heights (1988)
as Onimaru
The Family Game (1983)
as Yoshimoto
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979)
as Tetsuya Asakura
The Most Dangerous Game (1978)
as Shouhei Narumi
Detective Story (1983)
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
The Assassination of Ryoma (1974)
as Yûta
Rape Hunter: Target Woman (1980)
as Insurance Salesman
The Killing Game (1978)
as Shohei Narumi
And Then (1985)
as Daisuke Nagai
Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)
as BJ
Murderer! (1976)
as Futago Rokube
A Homance (1986)
as Kaze
The Classroom of Terror (1976)
Actor
Target (1980)
as Yûsaku Matsuda
The Execution Game (1979)
as Shohei Narumi
Horror of the Wolf (1973)
as Dō Haguro
The Four Roughnecks (1974)
Actor
No Grave for Us (1979)
as Katsuo Shima
Dansen (1983)
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Tomodachi (1974)
Actor
Murder in the Doll House (1979)
as Toshio Katsu
Cliff of Death (1982)
Actor
The Chaser (1989)
as Naoya Kaneshiro