
September 21, 1949 · 77 years old
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 televisio…

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.

Japanese parents hire a tutor for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City. There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime.

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.

Hitman Narumi is asked to rescue a kidnapped businessman who is involved in an air defense project. Narumi nearly succeeds but a stray shot kills the hostage. Nevertheless the person who hired Narumi now has another mission for him.

Narumi, after a 5-year hiatus, returns to encounter two previously spared women and faces rival yakuza bosses who hire him to kill another, posing a threat to his chivalry.

The story of Kaze; where he comes from and where he is going, nobody knows. A man without a real name and past, and without memory.

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.

Toko, who after a miscarriage, was left to the lust of a young man she met, but she escaped due to the robbery of Sarakin Company. Before Toko, who stood in a dead end, she no longer had "home, " "love, " and even "freedom."

When Takeo Natsuki with his two sidekick troublemakers meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.