Cast
Yūsaku Matsuda
Acting
Cast
Yūsaku Matsuda
Known for
Acting
Born
1949-09-21
From
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Died
1989-11-06
Also known as Yusaku Matsuda, Yūsaku Matsuda
Biography
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.
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Black Rain
as Sato
MOVIE1979
Ameyuki-san
as Shinzaburō
★7.8
MOVIE1977
Proof of the Man
as Detective Munesue
★6.6
MOVIE1981
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
★7.1
MOVIE1985
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
★6.8
MOVIE1983
The Family Game
as Yoshimoto
★7.3
MOVIE1988
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
★4.8
MOVIE1974
The Assassination of Ryoma
as Yûta
★7.8
MOVIE1986
A Homance
as Kaze
★7.3
MOVIE1973
Horror of the Wolf
as Dō Haguro
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru
★6.3
MOVIE1979
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
★5.7
MOVIE1980
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
★7.4
MOVIE1979
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
MOVIE1988
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
★6.1
MOVIE1978
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
★6.3
MOVIE1976
The Classroom of Terror
★3.6
MOVIE1980
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance Salesman
★7.5
MOVIE1978
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
★7.7
MOVIE1979
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
★6.7
MOVIE1983
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
★7.8
MOVIE1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
★6.3
MOVIE1979
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
★1.0
MOVIE1983
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
★10.0
MOVIE1980
Target
as Yûsaku Matsuda
★8.0
MOVIE1976
Murderer!
as Futago Rokube
MOVIE1974
Tomodachi
★8.0
MOVIE1989
The Chaser
as Naoya Kaneshiro
MOVIE1982
Cliff of Death
★5.0
MOVIE1974