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Yusaku Matsuda (松田 優作, Matsuda Yūsaku, September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989) was a Japanese actor. He began acting after graduating from high school, moving through several theatre companies before joining the Bungakuza theatre group at the same time as Kaori Momoi. His career as a screen actor started in 1973 with a role as a rookie 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... MORE

Yusaku Matsuda (松田 優作, Matsuda Yūsaku, September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989) was a Japanese actor. He began acting after graduating from high school, moving through several theatre companies before joining the Bungakuza theatre group at the same time as Kaori Momoi. His career as a screen actor started in 1973 with a role as a rookie 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 Shohei Narumi in the Yugi (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 Kagero-za. In 1983, he won the award for best actor at the 8th Hochi Film Award LESS