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Yūsaku Matsuda
Born · September 21, 1949
Died · November 6, 1989 (40 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Bio
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
8.0
1989
Black Rain
Sato
6.6
1989
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
8.0
1988
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
6.2
1988
A Homance
Kaze
7.2
1986
追う男
(1 episode)
0.0
1986
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
6.9
1985
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1.0
1983
Nettaiya
(1 episode)
0.0
1983
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
6.2
1983
The Family Game
Yoshimoto
6.8
1983
Shi no dangai
0.0
1982
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
6.7
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
7.5
1981
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
5.3
1980
Zoku zoku jiken
(4 episodes)
0.0
1980
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
0.0
1980
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
3.2
1980
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
7.2
1979
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo · (27 episodes)
6.5
1979
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
5.8
1979
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
6.0
1979
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
6.5
1979
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
7.4
1978
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
6.1
1978
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
7.4
1977
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
7.0
1976
The Classroom of Terror
6.0
1976
The Four Roughnecks
5.0
1974
Akai Meiro
(26 episodes)
0.0
1974
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
5.2
1974
Tomodachi
0.0
1974
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
7.0
1973
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan) · (20 episodes)
9.0
1972