Yūsaku Matsuda
Known for: Acting
Born: September 20, 1949 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan - Died: November 5, 1989
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
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A Homance
Kaze
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
The Family Game
Yoshimoto
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
Black Rain
Sato
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
The Classroom of Terror
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
The Four Roughnecks
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman