Cast: Yusaku Matsuda
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Yusaku Matsuda. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 20
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
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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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
Direction Toru Murakawa
Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Aiko Morishita · Lily · Yoshio Aoki
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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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Direction Yoshimitsu Morita
Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Miwako Fujitani · Kaoru Kobayashi · Morio Kazama
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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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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 Killing Game (The Murder Game)
1978 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan
Direction Toru Murakawa
Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Yutaka Nakajima · Kei Sato · Kaori Takeda
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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
Direction Toru Murakawa
Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Keiko Tasaka · Ichirô Araki · Asao Uchida
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