---
name: "Yōichi Matsue"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yoichi-matsue"
fi1m_id: "yoichi-matsue"
imdb_id: "nm0559452"
tmdb_id: 63966
wikidata_id: "Q11531707"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "26 October 1930"
died: "9 March 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:50:58.828309+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yōichi Matsue

## Identity

Yōichi Matsue

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yoichi-matsue
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yoichi-matsue
- **IMDb ID:** nm0559452
- **TMDB ID:** 63966
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11531707
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11531707, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63966

Producer. Born 26 October 1930 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Died 9 March 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 26 October 1930, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
- **Died:** 9 March 2019
- **Active:** 1963–1975
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 90 (1), 1970s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11531707, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63966

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Dersu Uzala* (1975), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/dersu-uzala.md)

### Crew (1)

- *High and Low* (1963), Fi1m 90, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/high-and-low.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Tale of Africa* (1980), Producer
- *Dersu Uzala* (1975), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/dersu-uzala.md)
- *Dodes'ka-den* (1970), Producer
- *Song of the Horse* (1970), Producer
- *Hell in the Pacific* (1968), Assistant Director
- *The Mad Atlantic* (1966), Assistant Director
- *Red Beard* (1965), Assistant Director
- *High and Low* (1963), Assistant Director — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/high-and-low.md)
- *Ginza Tomboy* (1960), Assistant Director
- *The Hidden Fortress* (1958), Assistant Director
- *The Wind Cannot Read* (1958), as Corporal Mori

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