The best Tadashi Yamashita’s movies

Tadashi Yamashita

Tadashi Yamashita

05/02/1942 (82 años)
We present our ranking of the best Tadashi Yamashita’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Tadashi Yamashita.
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Rising Sun

Rising Sun
6.2/10
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Conner and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Conner has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.

American Ninja

American Ninja
5.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 30/08/1985
  • Character: Black Star Ninja
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.

American Ninja 5

American Ninja 5
3/10
When a scientists daughter is kidnapped, American Ninja, attempts to find her, but this time he teams up with a youngster he has trained in the ways of the ninja.

The Octagon

The Octagon
5/10
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.

Gymkata

Gymkata
4.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1985
  • Character: Eastern Trainer
Johnathan Cabot is a champion gymnast. In the tiny, yet savage, country of Parmistan, there is a perfect spot for a "star wars" site. For the US to get this site, they must compete in the brutal "Game". The government calls on Cabot, the son of a former operative, to win the game. Cabot must combine his gymnastics skills of the west with fighting secrets of the east and form GYMKATA!

Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders

Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
7.2/10
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.

Seven

Seven
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/09/1979
  • Character: Swordsman
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.

Cage II: The Arena of Death

Cage II: The Arena of Death
4.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 14/12/1994
  • Character: Wang
After being tricked into thinking his best friend, and caretaker is dead, Vietnam Vet, and mentally disabled person has no other choice but to enter The Arena Of Death!

The Karate

The Karate
5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 15/06/1974
Hoping to use the prize money to save his grandmother's mid-Western farm, kickboxer Bronson Lee (Tadashi Yamashita) journeys to Japan to compete in a karate tournament in director Yukio Noda's martial arts actioner.

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment
3.4/10
Project K.I.C.K was a drug given to cattle to make them grow quicker, if the meat is eaten from these cattle it has horrible side effects. James is a martial artist hired by the DEA to find to a dealer his former Master who is trying to start selling the drug in an American. But little does James know not is what it seems.

The Karate 2

The Karate 2
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/11/1974
  • Character: Tadashi Yamashita
This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion and must faces dozens of worldwide pretenders, such as the Guillotine Brothers of New Guinea, Killer Samson, Dracula Jack (Bolo) who all want a shot at him at all cost and also to steal the famous Orikirimaru Sword.

Soul of Chiba

Soul of Chiba
5.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 11/02/1977
  • Character: Drug Agent
This mid-1970s martial arts classic stars Sonny Chiba as Mu Yun Tek, a young man trained in the Thai fighting style since childhood to one day avenge his parents' death. When a fellow student kills their teacher, Mu Yun's thirst for vengeance grows. The brutal action never stops as Mu Yun teams up with an Interpol agent (Tadashi Yamashita) to find the culprit, who insists that their former master was a drug dealer who had to be destroyed.

Pocket Ninjas

Pocket Ninjas
1.4/10
Somewhere in New Jersey, a group of masked rollerblading children "save the universe" by training to fight the evil Cobra Khan through a series of action-packed montages. Along the way they hypothesize some slapstick hijinks in a balloon factory, and save the day through a hypothetical Sonic Virtual Reality battle. A real treat!

The Karate 3

The Karate 3
6.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 02/01/1975
This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate schools are not happy that a Chinese master will take over the Japanese karate organization and will do everything they can to prevent it.

Sword of Heaven

Sword of Heaven
6.1/10
  • Release: 06/12/1985
  • Character: Tadashi Kiresowa
A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring.

Young Rebels

Young Rebels
4.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 31/10/1989
  • Character: Genza
From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).

The Shinobi Ninja

The Shinobi Ninja
6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1981
  • Character: Ken
Fighters hired to steal back a secret document that if public could destroy all democracy.

The Game

The Game
5.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1988
  • Character: Chin
To avenge the death of his family, a man infiltrates a group of wealthy killers who take homeless people and use them as prey in a sadistic game of "hunt the man down".

GiAnts

GiAnts
4/10
Immensely successful Professor Jonathan Caine has come out with a new book about his favorite subject, ants. He is known and respected all over the world but to his beautiful daughter, radio personality, Audrey Caine, he is an absentee parent. Nevertheless, Caine tries to heal the break between him and his daughter only to be called away to give another lecture on ants to a secretive multi-national corporation, Niles Industries, hidden in the Colorado wilderness. Meanwhile, his daughter, Audrey, is worried more than she’d like to admit. But when a giant ant escapes so does Caine. The giant ant sends out a sonic signal that travels across the four corners of the world and suddenly giant ants are appearing everywhere!

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