Cast & creator
Yūsaku Matsuda
Best known for Black Rain, Black Rain, Detective Story
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.
Also known as: Yusaku Matsuda, Yūsaku Matsuda
34
film credits
10
television credits
40
1969–1989 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (44)
Showing 44 of 44 credits
Black Rain
Sato
1989Black Rain
In Memory Of
1989
Detective Story
Shunsaku Kudo
1979
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976
Zoku zoku jiken
1980
Bark at the Sun
Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
1972
Fushoku no kōzō
Omachi Shinichi
1977
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
The Assassination of Ryoma
Yûta
1974
Judo Icchokusen
青叶中学柔道部员
1969
Red Maze
1974
Proof of the Man
Detective Munesue
1977
Wuthering Heights
Onimaru
1988
The Beast to Die
Kunihiko Date
1980
Nettaiya
1983
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Tetsuya Asakura
1979
The Most Dangerous Game
Shouhei Narumi
1978
Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ
1981Yokohama BJ Blues
Original Concept
1981
And Then
Daisuke Nagai
1985
The Family Game
Sho Yoshimoto
1983
Detective Story
Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
Ameyuki-san
Shinzaburō
1979
The Execution Game
Shohei Narumi
1979
A Chaos of Flowers
Takeo Arishima
1988
Horror of the Wolf
Dō Haguro
1973
Target
Yûsaku Matsuda
1980
No Grave for Us
Katsuo Shima
1979
The Killing Game
Shohei Narumi
1978
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Insurance Salesman
1980
A Homance
Kaze
1986A Homance
Director
1986A Homance
Screenplay
1986
The Four Roughnecks
1974
The Classroom of Terror
1976追う男
1986Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
Dansen
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983
Murderer!
Futago Rokube
1976
Murder in the Doll House
Toshio Katsu
1979
Our Medal
Nakano Yuji
1975
The Chaser
Naoya Kaneshiro
1989
Tomodachi
1974