Cast: Yusaku Matsuda

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Yusaku Matsuda. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Family Game

1983 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jūzō Itami · Saori Yuki · Ichirôta Miyakawa

Synopsis A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom...

6.9

45 votes

6.9

45 votes

Heat-Haze Theatre

1981 · Movie · 139 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Synopsis The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding countryside of 1926 Tokyo.

6.6

34 votes

6.6

34 votes

Arashi ga oka (Wuthering Heights)

1988 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Yûko Tanaka · Tatsuro Nadaka · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis Japanese filmmaker Yoshishige Yoshida, in his film Arashi-ga-Oka, interprets Wuthering Heights in a medieval Japanese folklore context. A fearful stranger, Onimaru (Heathcliff), tries to intrude into the central community with a tabooed and profane woman, Kinu (Catherine). Influenced by George...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

Black Rain

1989 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Michael Douglas · Andy García · Ken Takakura · Kate Capshaw

Synopsis In Black Rain (1989), two New York detectives, Nick and Charlie, apprehend a ruthless Yakuza member in Osaka, Japan. After the criminal escapes their custody, they partner with local law enforcement to track him down. As Nick delves deeper into...

6.2

11K votes

6.2

11K votes

Murderer

1976 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Hitoshi Ôsu

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Yôko Takahashi · Tetsurô Tanba · Shin Kishida

Synopsis 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.

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A Homance

1986 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Yusaku Matsuda

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Ryo Ishibashi · Satomi Tezuka · Ryûji Katagiri

Synopsis 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.

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The Execution Game

1979 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

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Fûfu tabi nikki saraba ronin (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Eiichi Kudo · Kazuo Kuroki · Kazuo Mori

Cast Yoshio Harada · Yusaku Matsuda · Makoto Fujita · Masumi Harukawa

Synopsis TV series (1976).

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Proof of the Man

1977 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan

Direction Junya Sato

Cast George Kennedy · Mariko Okada · Yusaku Matsuda · Broderick Crawford

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

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Yokohama BJ bûrusu

1981 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis 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.

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And Then

1985 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

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The Assassination of Ryoma

1974 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Renji Ishibashi · Rie Nakagawa · Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868). A samurai film in an ironic almost...

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Target

1980 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Hiroshi Tachi · Yutaka Nakajima · Yuji Honma · Kazumi Sawada

Synopsis Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.

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The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

1979 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jun Fubuki · Kei Sato · Mikio Narita

Synopsis Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who 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 with no...

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Detective Story

1983 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard his daughter until she leaves. Shuichi finds the job annoying and wants...

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The Classroom of Terror

1976 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Akihisa Okamoto

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Hiroshi Tachi · Maria Anzai · Gôzô Sôma

Synopsis Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.

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The Beast Must Die

1980 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Asami Kobayashi · Yoshio Aoki · Kai Ato

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

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Jûdô itchokusen (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi · Itaru Orita · Katsuhiko Taguchi · Yoshihiro Tomita

Cast Kenichi Sakuragi · Kazuko Aoki · Sonny Chiba · Nobuyuki Ishida

Synopsis TV series (1969-1971). 92 episodes.

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The Most Dangerous Game

1978 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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