
Yūsaku Matsuda
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.
Filmography

The Chaser

Black Rain

A Chaos of Flowers

Wuthering Heights

A Homance

And Then

Dansen

Detective Story

The Family Game

Shi no dangai

Kagero-za

Yokohama BJ Blues

The Beast to Die

Target

Rape Hunter: Target Woman

The Execution Game

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

No Grave for Us

Murder in the Doll House

The Killing Game

The Most Dangerous Game

Proof of the Man

Murderer!

The Classroom of Terror

The Four Roughnecks

The Assassination of Ryoma

Tomodachi
