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
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