ACTOR

Yūsaku Matsuda

1949 - 1989

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Yūsaku Matsuda (松田 優作, Matsuda Yūsaku; September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989) was a Japanese actor. In Japan, he was best known for roles in action films and a variety of television series in the 1970s as well as a switch to a wider range of roles in the 1980s. His final film appearance was as the villain Sato in Ridley Scott's Black Rain. He died in 1989 at the age of 40. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yūsaku Matsuda is the 3,527th most popular actor (down from 2,156th in 2019), the 1,116th most popular biography from Japan (down from 810th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 3,527 out of 13,578Before him are Gustav Knuth, Linda Kozlowski, Chris Elliott, Holt McCallany, Wojciech Bogusławski, and M. G. Ramachandran. After him are Chantal Goya, Al Lewis, Amy Ryan, David Arquette, Clarence Nash, and Paul Herman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 346Before him are Patti LuPone, Alex Higgins, Alfred Riedl, Dutch Mantel, Nené, and Francisco Maturana. After him are John Haglelgam, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Bei Dao, Sam Rainsy, Moussa Koussa, and Edu. Among people deceased in 1989, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 174Before him are Veniamin Kaverin, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Ugo Pignotti, Georges Schehadé, and Huey P. Newton. After him are Anders Rydberg, Carl Dahlhaus, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Lawrence Stevens, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, and Yasuji Miyazaki.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 1,116 out of 6,245Before him are Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), and Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931). After him are Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Hisashi Owada (1932), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Norio Wakamoto (1945), and Shigeru Kayano (1926).

Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 44Before him are Chieko Baisho (1941), Ken Ogata (1937), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Yoko Shimada (1953), Chishū Ryū (1904), and Haruo Nakajima (1929). After him are Norio Wakamoto (1945), Akira Terao (1947), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), and Akira Kamiya (1946).