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Yūsaku Matsuda profile
Actor

Yūsaku Matsuda

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Acting credits

36

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

0.9

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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

Other jobs

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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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