Yūsaku Matsuda
Acting • Born 1949-09-21 – Died 1989-11-06
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.
Filmography
37 credits
Black Rain
Movie • 1989
Sato
A Chaos of Flowers
Movie • 1988
Takeo Arishima
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1988
Onimaru
A Homance
Movie • 1986
Kaze
And Then
Movie • 1985
Daisuke Nagai
Dansen
Movie • 1983
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Detective Story
Movie • 1983
Shuichi Tsujiyama
The Family Game
Movie • 1983
Yoshimoto
Kagero-za
Movie • 1981
Shungo Matsuzaki
Yokohama BJ Blues
Movie • 1981
BJ
The Beast to Die
Movie • 1980
Kunihiko Date
Target
Movie • 1980
Yûsaku Matsuda
The Execution Game
Movie • 1979
Shohei Narumi
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Movie • 1979
Tetsuya Asakura
No Grave for Us
Movie • 1979
Katsuo Shima
Murder in the Doll House
Movie • 1979
Toshio Katsu
The Killing Game
Movie • 1978
Shohei Narumi
The Most Dangerous Game
Movie • 1978
Shouhei Narumi
Horror of the Wolf
Movie • 1973
Dō Haguro
The Assassination of Ryoma
Movie • 1974
Yûta
The Classroom of Terror
Movie • 1976
Proof of the Man
Movie • 1977
Detective Munesue
The Four Roughnecks
Movie • 1974
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Movie • 1980
Insurance Salesman
Murderer!
Movie • 1976
Futago Rokube
The Chaser
Movie • 1989
Naoya Kaneshiro
Shi no dangai
Movie • 1982
Tomodachi
Movie • 1974
Nettaiya
TV • 1983
Red Maze
TV • 1974
追う男
TV • 1986
Detective Story
TV • 1979
Shunsaku Kudo
Zoku zoku jiken
TV • 1980
Bark at the Sun
TV • 1972
Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
Fushoku no kōzō
TV • 1977
Omachi Shinichi
Big City: Days of Struggle
TV • 1976
Our Medal
TV • 1975
Nakano Yuji