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
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
A Homance
Kaze
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
Tomodachi
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Shi no dangai
The Family Game
Yoshimoto
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
The Four Roughnecks
The Classroom of Terror
Big City: Days of Struggle
Black Rain
Sato
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo
Zoku zoku jiken
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
Red Maze
Fushoku no kōzō
Omachi Shinichi
Nettaiya
追う男
Our Medal
Nakano Yuji
The Chaser
Naoya Kaneshiro