Yūsaku Matsuda
Birthday: 1949-09-21 | Place of Birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, JapanYūsaku 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Naoya Kaneshiro
as Sato
as Onimaru
as Kaze
as Daisuke Nagai
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
as Yoshimoto
as BJ
as Shungo Matsuzaki
as Insurance Salesman
as Kunihiko Date
as Katsuo Shima
as Shohei Narumi
as Shunsaku Kudo
as Tetsuya Asakura
as Toshio Katsu
as Shohei Narumi
as Shouhei Narumi
as Detective Munesue
as Omachi Shinichi
as Futago Rokube
as Nakano Yuji
