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Yūsaku Matsuda
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
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 fo…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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1989
The Chaser
Movie Naoya Kaneshiro
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1989
Black Rain
Movie Sato
- 1988
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1988
A Chaos of Flowers
Movie Takeo Arishima
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1988
Wuthering Heights
Movie Onimaru
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1986
A Homance
Movie Kaze
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1986
追う男
TV show
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1985
And Then
Movie Daisuke Nagai
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1983
Dansen
Movie Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
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1983
Nettaiya
TV show
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1983
Detective Story
Movie Shuichi Tsujiyama
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1983
The Family Game
Movie Sho Yoshimoto
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1982
Cliff of Death
Movie
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1981
Kagero-za
Movie Shungo Matsuzaki
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1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
Movie BJ
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1980
The Beast to Die
Movie Kunihiko Date
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1980
Zoku zoku jiken
TV show
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1980
Target
Movie Yûsaku Matsuda
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1980
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Movie Insurance Salesman
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1979
The Execution Game
Movie Shohei Narumi
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1979
Detective Story
TV show Shunsaku Kudo
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1979
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Movie Tetsuya Asakura
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1979
No Grave for Us
Movie Katsuo Shima
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1979
Murder in the Doll House
Movie Toshio Katsu
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1979
Ameyuki-san
Movie Shinzaburō
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1978
The Killing Game
Movie Shohei Narumi
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1978
The Most Dangerous Game
Movie Shouhei Narumi
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1977
Proof of the Man
Movie Detective Munesue
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1977
Fushoku no kōzō
TV show Omachi Shinichi
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1976
Big City: Days of Struggle
TV show
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1976
Murderer!
Movie Futago Rokube
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1976
The Classroom of Terror
Movie
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1975
Our Medal
TV show Nakano Yuji
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1974
The Four Roughnecks
Movie
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1974
Red Maze
TV show
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1974
The Assassination of Ryoma
Movie Yûta
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1974
Tomodachi
Movie
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1973
Horror of the Wolf
Movie Dō Haguro
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1972
Bark at the Sun
TV show Shibata Jun (Jeapan)
