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.
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Full filmography
- Black Rain (1989) as Sato
- Big City: Days of Struggle (1976)
- Zoku zoku jiken (1980)
- Detective Story (1979) as Shunsaku Kudo
- Fushoku no kōzō (1977) as Omachi Shinichi
- Bark at the Sun (1972) as Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
- Proof of the Man (1977) as Detective Munesue
- Kagero-za (1981) as Shungo Matsuzaki
- The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979) as Tetsuya Asakura
- The Most Dangerous Game (1978) as Shouhei Narumi
- The Beast to Die (1980) as Kunihiko Date
- The Family Game (1983) as Yoshimoto
- Rape Hunter: Target Woman (1980) as Insurance Salesman
- A Chaos of Flowers (1988) as Takeo Arishima
- The Killing Game (1978) as Shohei Narumi
- The Assassination of Ryoma (1974) as Yûta
- A Homance (1986) as Kaze
- Detective Story (1983) as Shuichi Tsujiyama
- Red Maze (1974)
- Wuthering Heights (1988) as Onimaru
- The Execution Game (1979) as Shohei Narumi
- Nettaiya (1983)
- Yokohama BJ Blues (1981) as BJ
- Murderer! (1976) as Futago Rokube