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