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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 21, 1949
Died
November 6, 1989
Place of Birth
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Also Known As
- Yusaku Matsuda
- Yūsaku Matsuda
Yūsaku Matsuda
0.6 Popularity
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
Credits
The Chaser
as Naoya Kaneshiro
1989
8.0
Black Rain
as Sato
1989
6.6
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
1988
7.5
Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru
1988
6.5
A Homance
as Kaze
1986
7.2
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追う男
1986
0.0
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
1985
7.0
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983
1.0
Nettaiya
1983
0.0
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
6.2
The Family Game
as Yoshimoto
1983
6.8
Shi no dangai
1982
0.0
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
6.5
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
1981
7.5
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
1980
5.2
Zoku zoku jiken
1980
0.0
Target
as Yûsaku Matsuda
1980
0.0
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance Salesman
1980
3.1
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
1979
7.2
Detective Story
as Shunsaku Kudo
1979
6.5
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
1979
6.1
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
1979
6.0
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
1979
6.5
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
1978
7.4
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
1978
6.0
Proof of the Man
as Detective Munesue
1977
7.6
Fushoku no kōzō
as Omachi Shinichi
1977
0.0
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976
0.0
Murderer!
as Futago Rokube
1976
7.0
The Classroom of Terror
1976
6.0
Our Medal
as Nakano Yuji
1975
0.0
The Four Roughnecks
1974
5.0
Red Maze
1974
0.0
The Assassination of Ryoma
as Yûta
1974
4.6
Tomodachi
1974
0.0
Horror of the Wolf
as Dō Haguro
1973
7.0
Bark at the Sun
as Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
1972
9.0