Yusaku Matsuda
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Yusaku Matsuda (Japanese: 松田優作, Matsuda Yūsaku) (born September 21, 1949, died November 6, 1989) was a Japanese actor.
Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki city in Yamaguchi Prefecture. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report.
He became an actor when he was 23 as a rookie police officer, the "Jeans Detective", for a TV show called "Taiyō ni hoero!" (Bark at the sun) in Japan. Apart from this role, his other defining role on television was in "Tantei Monogatari" (detective story), in which he starred as an incompetent private detective. He featured in many other TV shows and movies. He specialized in physical action movies. The 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.
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] Television
- Taiyō ni hoero!
- Akai meiro
- Oretachi no kunsyo
- Daitokai (Guest)
- Saraba Ronin (Guest)
- Daitokai PART Ⅱ
- Daitsuiseki (Guest)
- Ameyukisan
- Tantei Monogatari
- Haru ga kita
- Shi no dangai
- Shin・Jiken Dr.stop
- Home sweet home (Guest)
- Anchan (Guest)
- Nettai ya
- Dansen
- Shin・Yumechiyo nikki
- Onna goroshi abura no jigoku
- Ou otoko
- Sakurako wa warau
- Karei naru tsuiseki
[edit] Film
- Ookami no monsyo
- Abayo dachi kou
- Tomodachi (film)
- Ryoma ansatsu
- Bouryoku kyoushitsu
- Hito goroshi
- Ningen no syomei
- Mottomo kiken na yugi
- Satsujin yugi
- Midare karakuri
- Oretachi ni haka wa nai
- Yomigaeru kinrou
- Syokei yugi
- Yaju shisu beshi
- Bara no hyouteki (Guest)
- Rape hunter nerawareta onna (Guest)
- Yokohama bj blues
- Kagerou za
- The Family Game:Kazoku Game
- Tantei Monogatari
- Sorekara
- A homansu
- Wuthering Heights:Arashi ga oka
- Han no ran
- Black Rain
[edit] Family
- First Son: Matsuda Ryuhei 松田龍平
- Second Son: Matsuda Shota 松田翔太
[edit] Trivia
- Matsuda's character in "Tantei Monogatari" was the main inspiration for Cowboy Bebop's main character Spike Spiegel, right down to Matsuda's unique hair style as well as other physical features excluding the hat Matsuda wore in the series.
- The main character in the video game Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny was reportedly modelled after Matsuda.
