Yūsaku Matsuda

Yūsaku Matsuda

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.

  • Title: Yūsaku Matsuda
  • Popularity: 10.7
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1949-09-21
  • Place of Birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Yusaku Matsuda
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Yūsaku Matsuda Movies

  • 1989
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    Black Rain

    Black Rain

    6.59 1989 HD

    Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to...

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  • 1988
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    A Chaos of Flowers

    A Chaos of Flowers

    8 1988 HD

    Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...

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  • 1988
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    6.2 1988 HD

    Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu...

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  • 1986
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    A Homance

    A Homance

    7.2 1986 HD

    A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.

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  • 1985
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    And Then

    And Then

    6.9 1985 HD

    Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and...

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  • 1983
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    Dansen

    Dansen

    1 1983 HD

    Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

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  • 1983
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    Detective Story

    Detective Story

    6.2 1983 HD

    Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard...

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  • 1983
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    The Family Game

    The Family Game

    6.783 1983 HD

    A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

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  • 1981
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    Kagero-za

    Kagero-za

    6.66 1981 HD

    A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

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  • 1981
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    Yokohama BJ Blues

    Yokohama BJ Blues

    7.2 1981 HD

    BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a...

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  • 1980
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    The Beast to Die

    The Beast to Die

    5 1980 HD

    A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...

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  • 1980
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    Target

    Target

    1 1980 HD

    Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.

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  • 1979
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    The Execution Game

    The Execution Game

    7.2 1979 HD

    The third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced...

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  • 1979
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    The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

    The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

    5.8 1979 HD

    A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

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  • 1979
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    No Grave for Us

    No Grave for Us

    6 1979 HD

    A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...

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  • 1979
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    Murder in the Doll House

    Murder in the Doll House

    6.5 1979 HD

    Yūsaku Matsuda plays the part of a private detective in this modern day "who dunnit" mystery, full of suspense, thrills and chills.

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  • 1978
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    The Killing Game

    The Killing Game

    7.4 1978 HD

    The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes...

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  • 1978
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    The Most Dangerous Game

    The Most Dangerous Game

    6.1 1978 HD

    The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in...

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  • 1973
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    Horror of the Wolf

    Horror of the Wolf

    7 1973 HD

    Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang...

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  • 1974
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    The Assassination of Ryoma

    The Assassination of Ryoma

    5 1974 HD

    Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...

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  • 1976
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    The Classroom of Terror

    The Classroom of Terror

    6 1976 HD

    Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by...

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  • 1977
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    Proof of the Man

    Proof of the Man

    7.4 1977 HD

    When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...

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  • 1974
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    The Four Roughnecks

    The Four Roughnecks

    5 1974 HD

    Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released...

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  • 1980
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    Rape Hunter: Target Woman

    Rape Hunter: Target Woman

    3.2 1980 HD

    Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For...

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  • 1976
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    Murderer!

    Murderer!

    7 1976 HD

    A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to...

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  • 1989
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    The Chaser

    The Chaser

    8 1989 HD

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  • 1982
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    Shi no dangai

    Shi no dangai

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1974
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    Tomodachi

    Tomodachi

    1 1974 HD

    Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate...

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  • 1986
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    A Homance

    A Homance

    7.2 1986 HD

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  • 1981
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    Yokohama BJ Blues

    Yokohama BJ Blues

    7.2 1981 HD

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  • 1986
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    A Homance

    A Homance

    7.2 1986 HD

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  • 1989
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    Black Rain

    Black Rain

    6.59 1989 HD

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  • 1983
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    Nettaiya

    Nettaiya

    1 1983 HD

    It is a hot and humid summer in Tokyo. Eiji (Yusaku Matsuda), armed with a modified gun, breaks into a salaryman's finance company in Shinjuku and...

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  • 1974
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    Akai Meiro

    Akai Meiro

    1 1974 HD

    Akai Meiro is a Japanese television series starring Ken Utsui, Momoe Yamaguchi, Yusaku Matsuda, and Ryoko Nakano. It was broadcast from 1974 to 1975...

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  • 1986
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    追う男

    追う男

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1979
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    Detective Story

    Detective Story

    5.3 1979 HD

    After five years of service as a cop in San Francisco, Shunsaku Kudo becomes a private detective.

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  • 1980
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    Zoku zoku jiken

    Zoku zoku jiken

    1 1980 HD

    Daisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts the process of stepping into the background of the...

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  • 1972
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    Bark at the Sun

    Bark at the Sun

    9 1972 HD

    The detectives of Nana-magari station investigate a wide variety of crimes in 70s Japan, ranging from the mundane to the absolutely bizarre.

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