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.
Black Rain
as Sato
Proof of the Man
as Detective Munesue
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
The Assassination of Ryoma
as Yûta
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
The Family Game
as Yoshimoto
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
The Classroom of Terror
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
The Four Roughnecks
Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance Salesman
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
A Homance
as Kaze
Horror of the Wolf
as Dō Haguro
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
Target
as Yûsaku Matsuda
Tomodachi
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
Murderer!
as Futago Rokube
Cliff of Death
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
The Chaser
as Naoya Kaneshiro
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Ameyuki-san
as Shinzaburō
