Yusaku Matsuda (September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989) was a Japanese actor. Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi to a Japanese father and a Zainichi Korean mother. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report. He became an actor when he was 23 as a rookie police officer, the "Jeans Detective", for the 1970s Japanese TV detective drama called Taiyō ni hoero! ("Bark at the Sun") in Japan. Apart from this role, his other defining role on television was in Tantei Monogatari (detective story), in which he starred as an incompetent private detective. 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 (including Ryuhei And Shota, both of whom became actors). He was buried in Nishitama cemetery, in Akiruno, Tokyo. (Wikipedia)
Movie | Black Rain | Sato | 1989-09-22 |
Movie | The Chaser | Naoya Kaneshiro | 1989-10-07 |
Movie | Wuthering Heights | Onimaru | 1988-05-28 |
Movie | A Chaos of Flowers | Takeo Arishima | 1988-10-01 |
Movie | A Homance | Kaze | 1986-10-10 |
Movie | And Then | Daisuke Nagai | 1985-11-09 |
Movie | The Family Game | Yoshimoto | 1983-05-04 |
Movie | Dansen | Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga | 1983-12-03 |
Movie | Detective Story | Shuichi Tsujiyama | 1983-07-16 |
Movie | Shi no dangai | 1982-01-26 | |
Movie | Yokohama BJ Blues | BJ | 1981-04-25 |
Movie | Kagero-za | Shungo Matsuzaki | 1981-08-21 |
Movie | Rape Hunter: Target Woman | Insurance Salesman | 1980-02-02 |
Movie | The Beast to Die | Kunihiko Date | 1980-10-04 |
Movie | Target | Yûsaku Matsuda | 1980-04-19 |
Movie | Murder in the Doll House | Toshio Katsu | 1979-04-28 |
Movie | No Grave for Us | Katsuo Shima | 1979-05-26 |
Movie | The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf | Tetsuya Asakura | 1979-08-04 |
Movie | The Execution Game | Shohei Narumi | 1979-11-17 |
Movie | The Most Dangerous Game | Shouhei Narumi | 1978-04-07 |
Movie | The Killing Game | Shohei Narumi | 1978-12-02 |
Movie | Proof of the Man | Detective Munesue | 1977-10-08 |
Movie | The Classroom of Terror | 1976-07-01 | |
Movie | The Assassination of Ryoma | Yûta | 1974-08-02 |
Movie | The Four Roughnecks | 1974-11-22 | |
Movie | Horror of the Wolf | Dō Haguro | 1973-03-09 |
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