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Native name
  
松田 優作

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Yusaku Matsuda

Years active
  
1972–1989

Occupation
  
Actor


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Born
  
September 21, 1949 (
1949-09-21
)
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Spouse
  
Miyuki Matsuda (m. 1983–1989), Michiko Matsuda (m. 1975–1981)

Children
  
Shota Matsuda, Ryuhei Matsuda

Albums
  
INTERIOR, HARDEST NIGHT LIVE, TOUCH, HARDEST DAY, YUSAKU MATSUDA 1978-1987, D.F.NUANCE BAND

Movies
  
Black Rain, Detective Story, The Resurrection of Golden, The Beast to Die, The Family Game

Similar People
  
Ryuhei Matsuda, Miyuki Matsuda, Shota Matsuda, Kunie Tanaka, Bunta Sugawara

Zodiac Sign
  
Virgo

Died
  
November 6, 1989 (aged 40) Musashino, Tokyo, Japan

Height
  
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Nationality
  
Japanese

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Yūsaku Matsuda (松田 優作, Matsuda Yūsaku, September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989) was a Japanese actor. In Japan he was best known for roles in action films and a variety of television series in the 1970s as well as a switch to a wider range of roles in the 1980s. His final film appearance was as the villain Sato in Ridley Scott's Black Rain.

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Career

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He began acting after graduating from high school, moving through several theatre companies before joining the Bungakuza theatre group at around the same time as Kaori Momoi. His career as a screen actor started in 1973 with a role as a junior police officer in a TV detective drama called Taiyō ni Hoero! He went on to appear in various television series and action films during the seventies. His most remembered role on television was in Tantei Monogatari, in which he starred as an unlikely private detective. In films, he was known for such gun-toting roles as assassin Shōhei Narumi in the Yūgi (Game) series of films, and master criminal Asakura in Resurrection of the Golden Wolf.

In the 1980s, desiring to be seen as more than an action star, he moved from action films to a wider range of dramatic roles. He made a dramatic weight loss to appear in the film The Beast to Die in 1980. The following year he appeared in another action film, Yokohama BJ Blues, which also featured his singing, and the surreal art film Kagerō-za. In 1983, he won the award for best actor at the 8th Hochi Film Award for Detective Story and The Family Game. In 1985 he took the lead role in the award-winning Sorekara. In 1986, he directed A Homansu, after the scheduled director left due to disagreements. This was the only film he directed. During the eighties, he also appeared in many commercials, such as for Gatsby hair products or Triangle shochu. In addition to acting, from the late seventies to the eighties he toured as a singer, releasing several albums of music.

In 1989, although already diagnosed with cancer, he starred as the villain, Sato, in Black Rain. Director Ridley Scott and co-stars Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, and Kate Capshaw praised his professionalism and performance, despite his suffering. He died shortly afterwards, after making a final appearance in a special television drama with Florence Griffith-Joyner, in which he was supposed to run against her, but was unable to do so because of his illness.

After his death, his image continued to be used in commercials, such as a 2000 campaign for Schick razors using his image from the Tantei Monogatari television series. Books, films, television specials, and other products, such as scale models of his most famous characters, continue to appear long after his death. In 1998, a film called Yomigaeru Yūsaku: Tantei Monogatari Tokubetsu-hen was released, containing two episodes of the Tantei Monogatari television series and some additional material. In 2009, his second wife, Miyuki Matsuda, produced a tribute film, Soul Red, including clips from his films and interviews with actors such as Andy Garcia, as well as his two sons.

Personal life

Matsuda was born out of wedlock in Shimonoseki, to a Japanese father, a probation officer, whom he never met, and a Zainichi Korean mother, Kaneko Matsuda, originally Kim. She was a Korean who had married a Japanese man who died during World War II. Kaneko deliberately wrongly recorded his birth year as 1950 on his birth records.

He grew up and was educated in Shimonoseki, attending Kanda elementary school and Bunyo Junior High School, before entering Shimonoseki Secondary School. In 1967, while at high school, at the urging of his mother, he stayed with his aunt in the city of Seaside in America for one year. He attended Seaside High School. However, extremely unhappy in America, malnourished, unable to speak English, and feeling himself the victim of discrimination, he returned to Japan. Because he was afraid of facing his mother, he went to stay with his older brother in Tokyo. He attended Hōnan High School (豊南高等学校) as a night student and graduated in 1969. After graduating, he entered a theatre company called "Rokugatsu Gekijō" (六月劇場), leaving in November 1969. In 1971 he joined a theatre group "Club Marui", then in 1972 he joined "Bungakuza". He met his future wife Michiko through Club Marui in May 1971. At the time he was working as a barman.

He changed his citizenship from Korean to Japanese while he was starring in Taiyō ni Hoero!, with the help of Michiko, whose father was a member of the Liberal Democratic party who was head of the then-Prime Minister's support office.

In 1975 he was involved in two fracas, first with two journalists, and then with a student who attacked him with a wooden kendo sword because the student thought he was assaulting a woman. The student ended up in a hospital, and Matsuda received a suspended sentence for assault. This caused a major disruption in his career, with film studios and television companies dropping him.

He married Michiko Kumamoto in 1975 and had one daughter. They divorced in 1981 after six years of marriage. In 1983, he married Miyuki Kumagai, whom he had started a relationship with in 1979, when she was 17, when she appeared in the television series Tantei Monogatari. They had three children. Two of the children, Ryuhei and Shota, became actors and daughter Yuki became a singer.

In 1988, Matsuda was diagnosed with bladder cancer, before shooting began for Black Rain. Matsuda refused chemotherapy, as he thought it would affect his ability to act in the film. After his death, his first wife, who had experienced him ignoring an ear infection until it required surgery to prevent deafness, wrote that she suspected that he did not actually realize the seriousness of his illness. During the filming, he was urinating blood. By the time shooting finished, in March 1989, his cancer had spread to his spine and lungs, making it inoperable. On October 7, 1989, Matsuda was hospitalized. A month after he was admitted, Matsuda died at 6:45 PM JST on November 6 at the age of 40, at a Tokyo hospital. He was buried in Nishitama cemetery (西多摩霊園) in Akiruno, Tokyo.

Later influence

The appearances of the character Aokiji in the manga series One Piece, and the character Spike Spiegel in the anime series Cowboy Bebop are based on him.

Filmography

Actor
1999
Yomigaeru yusaku: Tantei monogatari tokubetsu hen as
Shunsaku Kudô
1989
Kareinaru tsuiseki (TV Movie)
1989
Black Rain as
Sato
1988
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana (TV Movie)
1988
A Chaos of Flowers as
Takeo Arishima
1988
Wuthering Heights as
Onimaru
1986
A-hômansu as
Kaze
1985
Sorekara as
Daisuke Nagai
1984
Onna goroshi abura no jigoku (TV Movie) as
Hyobei
1984
Shin yumechiyo nikki (TV Series) as
Takao
1983
Dansen (TV Movie) as
Mitsuo Tajima aka Goro Tomonaga
1983
Nettaiya (TV Series) as
Eiji
1983
Tantei monogatari as
Shuichi Tsujiyama
1983
The Family Game as
Yoshimoto, the tutor
1983
Anchan (TV Series) as
Yamamoto
- Episode #1.16 (1983) - Yamamoto
- Episode #1.15 (1983) - Yamamoto
1982
Shin jiken: Doctor stop (TV Series) as
Seiji Aizawa
- Episode #1.5 (1982) - Seiji Aizawa
- Episode #1.4 (1982) - Seiji Aizawa
- Episode #1.3 (1982) - Seiji Aizawa
- Episode #1.2 (1982) - Seiji Aizawa
- Episode #1.1 (1982) - Seiji Aizawa
1982
Home Sweet Home (TV Series)
1982
Shi no dangai (TV Movie)
1982
Haru ga kita (TV Movie)
1981
Kagero-za as
Shungo Matsuzaki
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues as
BJ
1980
Yajû shisubeshi as
Kunihiko Date
1980
Bara no hyôteki as
Hotel guest
1979
The Detective Story (TV Series) as
Shunsaku Kudô
- Downtown Blues (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- A Medaof Honor for the Stray Dog (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Illegal Police Force (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Diamond Panic (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Blood to the Sunset! (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Burû satsujin jiken (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- The Maze of the Desire (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Fugitive (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- The Man Without Shadow (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Mean Streets (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Black Cat (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Betrayal (1980) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Intimidator (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- The Melody of the Revenge (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- It Happened One Night (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Abduction (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Chained Town (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Mask of the Night (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- A Boy from a Planet (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Violent Ritual (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Backstreet Woman (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Shissousha No Kage (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Yogisha de kita aitsu (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Organized Crime (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Kiken wo kau otoko (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Surf City Blues (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
- Seijo ga machi ni yattekita (1979) - Shunsaku Kudô
1980
Rape Hunter: Target Woman as
Insurance Salesman. (uncredited)
1979
The Execution Game as
Shohei Narumi
1979
Yomigaeru kinrô as
Tetsuya Asakura (as Yuusaku Matsuda)
1979
Oretachi ni haka wa nai as
Katsuo Shima
1979
Midare karakuri
1979
Ameyuki san (TV Movie) as
Shinzaburô
1978
The Killing Game as
Shohei Narumi
1978
Daitsuiseki (TV Series)
- Episode #1.26 (1978)
1978
The Most Dangerous Game as
Shouhei Narumi
1976
Daitokai - Tatakai no hibi (TV Series) as
Isao tokuyoshi
1977
Fushoku no kôzô (TV Series)
1977
Proof of the Man as
Detective Koichiro Munesue
1976
Bôryoku kyôshitsu
1976
Hito goroshi as
Futago Rokube
1976
Fûfu tabi nikki saraba ronin (TV Series)
1975
Oretachi no kunshô (TV Series) as
Yuji
1974
Abayo dachikô
1974
Akai meiro (TV Series) as
Jun
- Episode #1.1 (1974) - Jun
1974
The Assassination of Ryoma as
Yûta
1974
Tomodachi as
Komatsu
1973
Taiyô ni hoero! (TV Series) as
Jeans / Social Worker
- Umi wo ute jiipan (1973)
- Episode #1.53 (1973) - Jeans
- Aisuru mono no sakebi (1973) - Social Worker
1973
Horror of the Wolf as
Dô Haguro
1972
Gensei hanaen anrakoro no uta (TV Series) as
Rickshaw
1969
Jûdô itchokusen (TV Series)(1969)
Director
1986
A-hômansu
Writer
1986
A-hômansu
Thanks
1989
Black Rain (in memory of)
Self
1989
Osharé 30/30 (TV Series) as
Self
- Yusaku Matsuda (1989) - Self
1986
The 9th Annual Japan Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1980
Tetsuko no heya (TV Series) as
Self
- Yusaku Matsuda (1980) - Self
1978
Okinawa retsuden daiichi: Shimaguwa (Documentary) as
Narration
Archive Footage
2012
Hero tachi no sôzetsu jinsei (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Yûsaku Matsuda (2012) - Self
2012
SmaSTATION (TV Series) as
Self
- Ken Takakura (2012) - Self
2011
Nonfix (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 23 March 2011 (2011) - Self
2010
Last Days (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 22 December 2010 (2010) - Self
2009
Soul Red: Matsuda Yûsaku (Documentary) as
Self
2009
Matsuda yusaku wa ikiteiru (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2006
Shiru wo tanoshimu (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Yusaku Matsuda (2006) - Self
2002
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (Video Game) as
Jubei Yagyu

References

Yusaku Matsuda Wikipedia


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