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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan, 1949-09-21

Died: 1989-11-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Horror of the Wolf	Dō Haguro	70
2	1974	Tomodachi		0
3	1974	The Assassination of Ryoma	Yûta	52
4	1974	The Four Roughnecks		50
5	1976	The Classroom of Terror		60
6	1976	Murderer!	Futago Rokube	70
7	1977	Proof of the Man	Detective Munesue	74
8	1978	The Most Dangerous Game	Shouhei Narumi	61
9	1978	The Killing Game	Shohei Narumi	74
10	1979	Murder in the Doll House	Toshio Katsu	65
11	1979	No Grave for Us	Katsuo Shima	60
12	1979	The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf	Tetsuya Asakura	58
13	1979	The Execution Game	Shohei Narumi	72
14	1980	Rape Hunter: Target Woman	Insurance Salesman	32
15	1980	Target	Yûsaku Matsuda	0
16	1980	The Beast to Die	Kunihiko Date	53
17	1981	Yokohama BJ Blues	BJ	75
18	1981	Kagero-za	Shungo Matsuzaki	67
19	1982	Shi no dangai		0
20	1983	The Family Game	Yoshimoto	68
21	1983	Detective Story	Shuichi Tsujiyama	62
22	1983	Dansen	Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga	10
23	1985	And Then	Daisuke Nagai	69
24	1986	A Homance	Kaze	72
25	1988	Wuthering Heights	Onimaru	62
26	1988	A Chaos of Flowers	Takeo Arishima	80
27	1989	Black Rain	Sato	66
28	1989	The Chaser	Naoya Kaneshiro	80

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Bark at the Sun	Shibata Jun (Jeapan)	90
2	1974	Akai Meiro		0
3	1979	Detective Story	Shunsaku Kudo	65
4	1980	Zoku zoku jiken		0
5	1983	Nettaiya		0
6	1986	追う男		0