
Yūsaku Matsuda
Acting
🎂 1949-09-21
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.
Cast credits(36)

Shunsaku Kudo
1979

Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
1972

1976

1983

1974
1986

1980

Omachi Shinichi
1977

Sato
1989

Tetsuya Asakura
1979

Kunihiko Date
1980

Detective Munesue
1977

Shungo Matsuzaki
1981

BJ
1981

Yûta
1974

Daisuke Nagai
1985

Katsuo Shima
1979

Yoshimoto
1983

Shohei Narumi
1979

Shouhei Narumi
1978

Insurance Salesman
1980

Shohei Narumi
1978

Onimaru
1988

Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983

Takeo Arishima
1988

Yûsaku Matsuda
1980

1974

1974

Futago Rokube
1976

Dō Haguro
1973

Toshio Katsu
1979

Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983

1976

Kaze
1986

1982

Naoya Kaneshiro
1989