Acting credits
36
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Yūsaku Matsuda
Acting
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Movies: 28Series: 8Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 34689
IMDb ID: nm0557929
Known for: Acting
Born: September 21, 1949
Died: November 6, 1989
Age: 40
Place of birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1972 - 1989
Years active: 18
Average TMDB rating: 6.76
Wikidata: Q1344415
Also known as
Yusaku Matsuda • Yūsaku Matsuda
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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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Yūsaku Matsuda.
8.0
The Chaser
as Naoya Kaneshiro
1989 Movie
6.6
Black Rain
as Sato
1989 Movie
7.5
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
1988 Movie
6.7
Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru
1988 Movie
7.2
A Homance
as Kaze
1986 Movie
7.1
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
1985 Movie
1.0
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983 Movie
6.2
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983 Movie
6.8
The Family Game
as Yoshimoto
1983 Movie
Shi no dangai
1982 Movie
6.5
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
1981 Movie
7.9
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
1981 Movie
5.2
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
1980 Movie
Target
as Yûsaku Matsuda
1980 Movie
3.1
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance Salesman
1980 Movie
7.5
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
1979 Movie
6.1
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
1979 Movie
6.0
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
1979 Movie
6.5
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
1979 Movie
7.5
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
1978 Movie
6.0
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
1978 Movie
7.6
Proof of the Man
as Detective Munesue
1977 Movie
7.0
Murderer!
as Futago Rokube
1976 Movie
6.0
The Classroom of Terror
1976 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Yūsaku Matsuda.
Nettaiya
1 eps
1983 Series
Zoku zoku jiken
4 eps
1980 Series
6.5
Detective Story
as Shunsaku Kudo • 27 eps
1979 Series
Fushoku no kōzō
as Omachi Shinichi • 1 eps
1977 Series
Big City: Days of Struggle
2 eps
1976 Series
Our Medal
as Nakano Yuji • 1 eps
1975 Series
Red Maze
26 eps
1974 Series
9.0
Bark at the Sun
as Shibata Jun (Jeapan) • 20 eps
1972 Series