About

Known credits:
37
Birthday:
1949-09-21
Place of birth:
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Website:
N/A

Yūsaku Matsuda

Overview

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

Acting
1989 The Chaser Actor Naoya Kaneshiro 59
Average
1989 Black Rain Actor Sato 63
Fair
1988 A Chaos of Flowers Actor Takeo Arishima 59
Average
1988 Wuthering Heights Actor Onimaru 59
Average
1986 A Homance Actor Kaze 59
Average
1986 追う男 Actor N/A
N/A
1985 And Then Actor Daisuke Nagai 59
Average
1983 Dansen Actor Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga N/A
N/A
1983 Nettaiya Actor N/A
N/A
1983 Detective Story Actor Shuichi Tsujiyama 58
Average
1983 The Family Game Actor Yoshimoto 59
Average
1982 Shi no dangai Actor N/A
N/A
1981 Kagero-za Actor Shungo Matsuzaki 59
Average
1981 Yokohama BJ Blues Actor BJ 59
Average
1980 The Beast to Die Actor Kunihiko Date 58
Average
1980 Target Actor Yûsaku Matsuda N/A
N/A
1980 Rape Hunter: Target Woman Actor Insurance Salesman 58
Average
1979 The Execution Game Actor Shohei Narumi 59
Average
1979 Detective Story Actor Shunsaku Kudo 69
Fair
1979 The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf Actor Tetsuya Asakura 58
Average
1979 No Grave for Us Actor Katsuo Shima 59
Average
1979 Murder in the Doll House Actor Toshio Katsu 59
Average
1978 The Killing Game Actor Shohei Narumi 59
Average
1978 The Most Dangerous Game Actor Shouhei Narumi 59
Average
1977 Proof of the Man Actor Detective Munesue 59
Average
1976 Murderer! Actor Futago Rokube 58
Average
1976 The Classroom of Terror Actor 58
Average
1974 The Four Roughnecks Actor 59
Average
1974 Akai Meiro Actor N/A
N/A
1974 The Assassination of Ryoma Actor Yûta 59
Average
1974 Tomodachi Actor N/A
N/A
1973 Horror of the Wolf Actor Dō Haguro 59
Average
1972 Bark at the Sun Actor Shibata Jun (Jeapan) N/A
N/A

Directing
1986 A Homance Directing Director 59
Average

Writing
1986 A Homance Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1981 Yokohama BJ Blues Writing Original Concept 59
Average

Crew
1989 Black Rain Crew In Memory Of 63
Fair