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Yūsaku Matsuda

Yūsaku Matsuda
  • Name: Yūsaku Matsuda
  • Birthday: 1949-09-21
  • Also known as: Yusaku Matsuda
  • Place of birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
  • Popularity: 6.58
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... Read More

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Title Release date
The Chaser   as  Naoya Kaneshiro 1989-10-07
Black Rain   as  Sato 1989-09-22
A Chaos of Flowers   as  Takeo Arishima 1988-10-01
Wuthering Heights   as  Onimaru 1988-05-28
A Homance   as  Kaze 1986-10-10
And Then   as  Daisuke Nagai 1985-11-09
Dansen   as  Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga 1983-12-03
Detective Story   as  Shuichi Tsujiyama 1983-07-16
The Family Game   as  Yoshimoto 1983-05-04
Shi no dangai 1982-01-26
Kagero-za   as  Shungo Matsuzaki 1981-08-21
Yokohama BJ Blues   as  BJ 1981-04-25
The Beast to Die   as  Kunihiko Date 1980-10-04
Target   as  Yûsaku Matsuda 1980-04-19
Rape Hunter: Target Woman   as  Insurance Salesman 1980-02-02
The Execution Game   as  Shohei Narumi 1979-11-17
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf   as  Tetsuya Asakura 1979-08-04
No Grave for Us   as  Katsuo Shima 1979-05-26
Murder in the Doll House   as  Toshio Katsu 1979-04-28
The Killing Game   as  Shohei Narumi 1978-12-02
The Most Dangerous Game   as  Shouhei Narumi 1978-04-07
Proof of the Man   as  Detective Munesue 1977-10-08
Murderer!   as  Futago Rokube 1976-10-16
The Classroom of Terror 1976-07-01
The Four Roughnecks 1974-11-22
The Assassination of Ryoma   as  Yûta 1974-08-02
Tomodachi 1974-07-24
Horror of the Wolf   as  Dō Haguro 1973-03-09