Yūsaku Matsuda
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976
Film
Black Rain
Sato
1989
Series
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo
1979
Film
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
1977
Series
Red Maze
1974
Series
Zoku zoku jiken
1980
Series
Fushoku no kōzō
Omachi Shinichi
1977
Series
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
1972
Film
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
1979
Film
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
1980
Film
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
1988
Film
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
Film
The Family Game
Sho Yoshimoto
1983
Film
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
1988
Film
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
1979
Film
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
1980
Film
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
1978
Film
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
1985
Film
The Classroom of Terror
1976
Film
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
1981
Film
Ameyuki-san
Shinzaburō
1979
Film
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
1979
Film
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
1978
Film
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
1979
Film
A Homance
Kaze
1986
Film
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
1974
Film
The Four Roughnecks
1974
Film
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
Series
Nettaiya
1983
Film
Cliff of Death
1982
Film
Tomodachi
1974
Film
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
1980
Film
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983
Film
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
1973
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
追う男
1986
Film
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
1976
Film
The Chaser
Naoya Kaneshiro
1989
Series
Our Medal
Nakano Yuji
1975