Yūsaku Matsuda
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.
Acting
Movie
Black Rain
as Sato
1989
Movie
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
Movie
The Family Game
as Yoshimoto
1983
Movie
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
1985
Movie
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
1980
Movie
Proof of the Man
as Detective Munesue
1977
Movie
The Assassination of Ryoma
as Yûta
1974
Movie
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
1978
Movie
Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru
1988
Movie
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
1979
Movie
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
1978
Movie
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
1979
Movie
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
1981
Movie
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
1979
Movie
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance Salesman
1980
Movie
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
Movie
A Homance
as Kaze
1986
TV
Detective Story
as Shunsaku Kudo
1979
Movie
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
1979
Movie
Horror of the Wolf
as Dō Haguro
1973
Movie
The Classroom of Terror
1976
Movie
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
1988
Movie
Murderer!
as Futago Rokube
1976
Movie
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983