
Acting
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 …

Black Rain
as Sato

The Chaser
as Naoya Kaneshiro

Wuthering Heights
as Onimaru

A Chaos of Flowers
as Takeo Arishima
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana

A Homance
as Kaze

And Then
as Daisuke Nagai

The Family Game
as Yoshimoto

Detective Story
as Shuichi Tsujiyama

Dansen
as Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga