Yūsaku Matsuda

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-09-21 (40 years old)

Deathday

1989-11-06

Place of Birth

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

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...

Acting

1989

Black Rain

as Sato

1988

A Chaos of Flowers

as Takeo Arishima

1988

1986

A Homance

as Kaze

1985

And Then

as Daisuke Nagai

1983

Dansen

as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga

1983

Detective Story

as Shuichi Tsujiyama

1983

The Family Game

as Yoshimoto

1981

Kagero-za

as Shungo Matsuzaki

1980

The Beast to Die

as Kunihiko Date

1980

Target

as Yûsaku Matsuda

1979

The Execution Game

as Shohei Narumi

1979

No Grave for Us

as Katsuo Shima

1979

1978

The Killing Game

as Shohei Narumi

1978

The Most Dangerous Game

as Shouhei Narumi

1973

Horror of the Wolf

as Dō Haguro

1977

Proof of the Man

as Detective Munesue

1980

Rape Hunter: Target Woman

as Insurance Salesman

1976

Murderer!

as Futago Rokube

1989

The Chaser

as Naoya Kaneshiro

Production

1986

A Homance

as Director

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues

as Original Concept

1986

A Homance

as Screenplay

1989

Black Rain

as In Memory Of

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