 Shunsui Matsuda

Born in 1925 in Tokyo, Shunsui Matsuda performed as child "Benshi" but it was only after the Pacific War, when the post-war shortages created a demand in films that Matsuda really began his vocation as a "Benshi".In 1947 he found himself part of a troupe of itinerant "benshi" travelling around Kyūshū, whose burgeoning coal mining industry had attracted a lot of workers to the region.