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.
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia....
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Kagero-za
as Shungo MatsuzakiA 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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The Beast to Die
as Kunihiko DateA policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi,...
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Proof of the Man
as Detective MunesueWhen an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail...
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The Classroom of Terror
as uncreditedYusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a...
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The Killing Game
as Shohei NarumiThe second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has...
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The Family Game
as YoshimotoA sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to...
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The Execution Game
as Shohei NarumiThe third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious...
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The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as Tetsuya AsakuraA seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by...
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And Then
as Daisuke NagaiDaisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is...
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Wuthering Heights
as OnimaruYoung Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his...
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The Most Dangerous Game
as Shouhei NarumiThe first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a...
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The Assassination of Ryoma
as YûtaStory of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who...
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A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo ArishimaSet in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story...
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Murder in the Doll House
as Toshio KatsuYūsaku Matsuda plays the part of a private detective in this modern day "who dunnit" mystery,...
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No Grave for Us
as Katsuo ShimaA plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
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Horror of the Wolf
as Dō HaguroEnigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful...
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Rape Hunter: Target Woman
as Insurance SalesmanFuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man...
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Detective Story
as Shuichi TsujiyamaNaomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a...
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Murderer!
as Futago RokubeA cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword...
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Yokohama BJ Blues
as BJBJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much...
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A Homance
as KazeA homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the...
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Tomodachi
as uncreditedShinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player....
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Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro TomonagaBased on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.
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Target
as Yûsaku MatsudaTwo killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.
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The Four Roughnecks
as uncreditedGimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money!...
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Detective Story
as Shunsaku KudoAfter five years of service as a cop in San Francisco, Shunsaku Kudo becomes a private detective.
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Bark at the Sun
as Shibata Jun (Jeapan)The detectives of Nana-magari station investigate a wide variety of crimes in 70s Japan, ranging...
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Nettaiya
as uncreditedIt is a hot and humid summer in Tokyo. Eiji (Yusaku Matsuda), armed with a modified gun, breaks...
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Akai Meiro
as uncreditedAkai Meiro is a Japanese television series starring Ken Utsui, Momoe Yamaguchi, Yusaku Matsuda,...
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