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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
1979
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
1979
Horror of the Wolf
as Dō Haguro
1973
Target
as Yûsaku Matsuda
1980
The Family Game
as Yoshimoto
1983
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
1988
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
1978
Black Rain
as Sato
1989
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
1979
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
1978
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
1979
The Classroom of Terror
1976
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
1980
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
1981
The Assassination of Ryoma
as Yûta
1974
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
1985
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
A Homance
as Kaze
1986
