Biography
Yōichi Matsue (1930–2019) was a Japanese film producer and assistant director. He worked extensively with Akira Kurosawa, serving as assistant director on several of the director's films, including The Hidden Fortress (1958), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), High and Low (1963), Red Beard (1965) and Hell in the Pacific (1968).
As a producer, Matsue was involved in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970) and the Soviet–Japanese co-production Dersu Uzala (1975). He helped secure the international agreement for the latter film and was credited as one of its producers alongside Nikolai Sizov. Dersu Uzala won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
