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