The best Yūya Uchida’s drama movies

Yūya Uchida

Yūya Uchida

17/11/1939- 17/03/2019
Today we present the best Yūya Uchida’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Yūya Uchida’s movies.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 28/05/1983
  • Character: Commandant of Military Prison
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

Izo

Izo
6/10
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

Zatoichi

Zatoichi
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 04/02/1989
  • Character: Boss Akabei
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Johnen: Love of Sada

Johnen: Love of Sada
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/05/2008
When photographer Ishida first sees Sada, the wife of a new acquaintance, his photo shoot with Sada turns quickly into a steamy affair of mind-blowing proportions

A Pool Without Water

A Pool Without Water
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1982
  • Character: Man
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums. A few days later, he sneaks into her house but gets discovered. Later, as he watches his son subdue an insect with a chemical, the man gets an idea to subdue women while they're sleeping so he won't be discovered sneaking into their home. His new hobby spirals out of control as his confidence grows.

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
6.7/10
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..

No More Comics!

No More Comics!
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/02/1986
  • Character: Toshiaki Kinameri
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.

Path of the Beast

Path of the Beast
5.1/10
17 year old Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life (she doesn't want to grow up like her mother), Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys. The sizzling Japanese Tatsumi Kumashiro’s erotic drama 'Shoujo Shofu: Kemonomichi' (aka 'Whore Girl - the Animal Trail' distributed internationally as 'Path of the Beast'), offers a venue for sex kitten Ayako Yoshimura to reveal choice areas of her nubile frame.

Erotic Liaisons

Erotic Liaisons
5.3/10
A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Case of the Disjointed Murder
5.9/10
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/07/1983
  • Character: Hero
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.

Yokohama BJ Blues

Yokohama BJ Blues
7.1/10
Former blues singer turned private eye, BJ becomes involved in a dangerous gang business.

Statue in Fire

Statue in Fire
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/12/1974
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).

Confessions of a Teenage Mother

Confessions of a Teenage Mother
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/07/1977
  • Character: Tokio
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.

The Heartbreak Yakuza

The Heartbreak Yakuza
6.2/10
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

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