Yūsaku Matsuda
Born
September 21, 1949
Died
November 6, 1989 (40 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
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.
The Chaser
Naoya Kaneshiro
1989
Black Rain
Sato
1989
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
1988
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
1988
A Homance
Kaze
1986
追う男
(1 episode)
1986
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
1985
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983
Nettaiya
(1 episode)
1983
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
The Family Game
Yoshimoto
1983
Shi no dangai
1982
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
1981
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
1980
Zoku zoku jiken
(4 episodes)
1980
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
1980
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
1980
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
1979
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo · (27 episodes)
1979
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
1979
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
1979
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
1979
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
1978
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
1978
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
1977
腐蝕の構造
Omachi Shinichi · (1 episode)
1977
Big City: Days of Struggle
(2 episodes)
1976
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
1976
The Classroom of Terror
1976
The Four Roughnecks
1974
Akai Meiro
(26 episodes)
1974
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
1974
Tomodachi
1974
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
1973
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan) · (20 episodes)
1972