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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yūsaku Matsuda has received more than 396,674 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yūsaku Matsuda is the 2,158th most popular actor (up from 2,255th in 2019), the 810th most popular biography from Japan (up from 816th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Actor.

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  • 400k

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  • 53.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 2,158 out of 13,578. Before him are Scott Bakula, Lesley Manville, Gig Young, Sonny Landham, Lau Kar-leung, and Teresa Wright. After him are Vijay, Robert Donat, Étienne Decroux, Haluk Bilginer, Stuart Wilson, and Brenda Vaccaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 210. Before him are Ric Ocasek, Francis Rossi, Michel Djotodia, Philip Michael Thomas, Leslie Easterbrook, and Dick Nanninga. After him are Bill Bruford, Alice Walton, Edu, Michio Yasuda, Valentin Inzko, and Tadashi Yanai. Among people deceased in 1989, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 112. Before him are Gilbert Simondon, Elisaveta Bykova, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Harry Andrews, and Richie Ginther. After him are Gerhard Schröder, Arnaldo Ochoa, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Riccardo Morandi, Joe Spinell, and Mouloud Mammeri.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 810 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiraga Gennai (1728), Megumu Tamura (1927), Akira Matsunaga (1914), Shojiro Sugimura (1905), Minoru Kobata (1946), and Kujō Yoritsugu (1239). After him are Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Motobu Chōki (1870), Shūji Terayama (1935), Shigeru Kayano (1926), Yoshiki (1965), and Teruki Miyamoto (1940).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Yūsaku Matsuda ranks 29. Before him are Mayumi Tanaka (1955), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Mie Hama (1943), Meiko Kaji (1947), Sho Kosugi (1948), and Chishū Ryū (1904). After him are Akihiro Miwa (1935), Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896), Tetsurō Tamba (1922), Kirin Kiki (1943), Sayuri Yoshinaga (1945), and Haruo Nakajima (1929).

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Television and Movie Roles

Black Rain
Sato
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Sep 22nd 19896.589 / 10
Kagero-za
Shungo Matsuzaki
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Aug 21st 19816.604 / 10
The Family Game
Yoshimoto
A sendup of the stereotypical 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 a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
May 4th 19836.7 / 10