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Yūsaku Matsuda
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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 ma…
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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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Yūsaku Matsuda's Filmography
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The Chaser
as Naoya Kaneshiro
Black Rain
as Sato
No Poster
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru
A Homance
as Kaze
And Then
as Daisuke Nagai
Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
The Family Game
as Sho Yoshimoto
Cliff of Death
Kagero-za
as Shungo Matsuzaki
Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJ
The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko Date
Target
as Yûsaku Matsuda
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance Salesman
The Execution Game
as Shohei Narumi
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya Asakura
No Grave for Us
as Katsuo Shima
Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio Katsu
Ameyuki-san
as Shinzaburō
The Killing Game
as Shohei Narumi
The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei Narumi
Proof of the Man
as Detective Munesue
Murderer!
as Futago Rokube
The Classroom of Terror
The Four Roughnecks
The Assassination of Ryoma
as Yûta
Tomodachi
Horror of the Wolf
as Dō Haguro