Tadashi Yamashita

AKA:
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1942-02-05

Japan

Biography

Tadashi Yamashita (山下忠, Yamashita Tadashi, born February 5, 1942) is a Japanese American martial artist and actor.

Crew Roles

Sword of Heaven
Martial Arts Choreographer
Surf Ninjas
Stunts
American Ninja 5
Fight Choreographer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {24}

Seikura

1980-08-14 5

The Octagon

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 arc ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

Tadashi

1993-04-02 4.8

American Ninja 5

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. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Black Star Ninja

1985-08-30 5.97

American 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 pri ...
Genre :Action

Eastern Trainer

1985-05-03 5.356

Gymkata

U.S. agents send a gymnastic martial artist to secure a missile-base site in the savage country of Parmistan. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Kenji Nakata

1991-12-21 3.1

Capital Punishment

Underground fighter James Thayer's loyalties are tested when he is recruited by a secretive agency to take down a drug trafficking ring operated by the man who trained him. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Motai

1974-12-29 0

Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders

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 forme ...
Genre :Mystery, TV Movie

Ninja

2005-09-10 0

Transformed

Set in a city rotting from within, the film follows the explosive fallout of a corrupt local government that secretly turns an innocent neighbourhood into its drug-distribution hub, funnelling the pro ...
Genre :Thriller, Action

Tadashi Kiresowa

1985-12-06 5

Sword of Heaven

A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring. ...
Genre :Action

Grandmaster Tadashi

2016-09-02 0.5

A Fighting Chance

In order to get his family back, Frank must transform internally and overcome his fear instilled in him by his father since childhood. And in the process of his turbulent spiritual journey and self-di ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama, Family

Genza

1989-10-31 3.7

Young Rebels

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 lead ...
Genre :Action

Tadashi Yamashita

1974-11-01 0

The Karate 2

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 ...
Genre :Action

Tadashi Yamashita

1975-01-15 3

The Karate 3

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 ...
Genre :Action

Chin

1988-01-01 6

The Game

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". ...
Genre :Action, Drama

American painter

1980-05-16 4.5

The Magnificent 3

After getting into a brawl in a Discotech in Dominica, three strangers; a Japanese tourist (Yasuaki Kurata), a Chinese restaurant worker (Tony Poon) and an American (!) painter (Tadashi Yamashita) fi ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Drug Agent

1977-02-11 6

Soul of Chiba

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 th ...
Genre :Action

Joe Williamson

2007-01-01 1

GiAnts

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 personali ...
Genre :Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Bronson Lee

1974-06-15 0

The Karate

Bronson Lee, a Japanese-American raised by his grandma in the harsh, poverty-stricken desert Southwest, returns to Japan to demonstrate his mastery of karate by entering the tournament that will deter ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Ken

1981-01-01 3.7

The Shinobi Ninja

Fighters are hired to steal back a secret document, which if made public, could destroy all democracy. ...
Genre :Action

Lee's Uncle

1996-01-01 6

Carjack

Story of a Chinese-American growing up in L.A. ...
Genre :

Wang

1994-12-14 2.889

Cage II: The Arena of Death

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! ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Swordsman

1979-09-07 5.739

Seven

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. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

(uncredited)

1997-03-25 2.8

Pocket Ninjas

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 hypothesi ...
Genre :Action, Family, Comedy

Nakamoto Yakuza

1993-07-30 6.14

Rising Sun

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous ex ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Self

2015-04-20 0

Ninja Gaijin: Remembering a Classic Cannon Franchise

Feature length documentary on the AMERICAN NINJA series with interviews from director Sam Firstenberg, actors Michael Dudikoff, Phillip Brock and Tadashi Yamashita, leading lady Judie Aronson, writer ...
Genre :Documentary