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.

Known For

Black Rain

Zoku zoku jiken

Big City: Days of Struggle

Bark at the Sun

Detective Story

Fushoku no kōzō

Proof of the Man

A Chaos of Flowers

All Movies (30)

• The Chaser1989 · as Naoya Kaneshiro
• Black Rain1989 · as Sato
• Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana1988
• A Chaos of Flowers1988 · as Takeo Arishima
• Wuthering Heights1988 · as Onimaru
• A Homance1986 · as Kaze
• And Then1985 · as Daisuke Nagai
• Dansen1983 · as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
• Detective Story1983 · as Shuichi Tsujiyama
• The Family Game1983 · as Yoshimoto
• Cliff of Death1982
• Kagero-za1981 · as Shungo Matsuzaki
• Yokohama BJ Blues1981 · as BJ
• The Beast to Die1980 · as Kunihiko Date
• Target1980 · as Yûsaku Matsuda
• Rape Hunter: Target Woman1980 · as Insurance Salesman
• The Execution Game1979 · as Shohei Narumi
• The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf1979 · as Tetsuya Asakura
• No Grave for Us1979 · as Katsuo Shima
• Murder in the Doll House1979 · as Toshio Katsu
• Ameyuki-san1979 · as Shinzaburō
• The Killing Game1978 · as Shohei Narumi
• The Most Dangerous Game1978 · as Shouhei Narumi
• Proof of the Man1977 · as Detective Munesue
• Murderer!1976 · as Futago Rokube
• The Classroom of Terror1976
• The Four Roughnecks1974
• The Assassination of Ryoma1974 · as Yûta
• Tomodachi1974
• Horror of the Wolf1973 · as Dō Haguro

All TV Shows (9)

• 追う男1986
• Nettaiya1983
• Zoku zoku jiken1980
• Detective Story1979 · as Shunsaku Kudo
• Fushoku no kōzō1977 · as Omachi Shinichi
• Big City: Days of Struggle1976
• Our Medal1975 · as Nakano Yuji
• Red Maze1974
• Bark at the Sun1972 · as Shibata Jun (Jeapan)