Yūsaku Matsuda

Acting

September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989 (died at 40)

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Male

34 Movies

9 TV Shows

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.

Black Rain

1989 6.6

as Sato

Age 40

Kagero-za

1981 6.6

as Shungo Matsuzaki

Age 31 (now 40)

The Family Game

1983 6.8

as Yoshimoto

Age 33 (now 40)

And Then

1985 7.1

as Daisuke Nagai

Age 36 (now 40)

The Beast to Die

1980 5.7

as Kunihiko Date

Age 31 (now 40)

Wuthering Heights

1988 6.7

as Onimaru

Age 38 (now 40)

The Most Dangerous Game

1978 6.1

as Shouhei Narumi

Age 28 (now 40)

Proof of the Man

1977 7.8

as Detective Munesue

Age 28 (now 40)

The Killing Game

1978 7.5

as Shohei Narumi

Age 29 (now 40)

The Execution Game

1979 7.4

as Shohei Narumi

Age 30 (now 40)

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

1979 6.3

as Tetsuya Asakura

Age 29 (now 40)

Yokohama BJ Blues

1981 7.8

as BJ

Age 31 (now 40)

No Grave for Us

1979 6.3

as Katsuo Shima

Age 29 (now 40)

A Homance

1986 7.8

as Kaze

Age 37 (now 40)

Detective Story

1983 6.7

as Shuichi Tsujiyama

Age 33 (now 40)

The Assassination of Ryoma

1974 4.8

as Yûta

Age 24 (now 40)