Tadashi Yamashita

Tadashi Yamashita

Nacimiento : 1942-02-05, Japan

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

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Tadashi Yamashita

Películas

A Fighting Chance
Grandmaster Tadashi
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-discovery, he creates a Martial Arts "Transformational Training Method: H.I.G.H. K.E.Y. F.I.T.N.E.S.S. which in turn he utilizes to lead and metamorphosize an inner-city High School Karate team from last place to first place in the state. These teenagers get to realize their unlimited God-given potential to overcome barriers and break down their limited beliefs and become positive contributors to society.
Ninja Gaijin: Remembering a Classic Cannon Franchise
Self
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 Paul De Mielche, stunt co-ordinator Steven Lambert, Debi James, daughter of the late Steve James and AMERICAN NINJA 2 stuntman BJ Davis.
GiAnts
Joe Williamson
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!
Transformed
Ninja
Kung fu fightin' vs. city corruption. Plus, Fred Williamson!
Pocket Ninjas
(uncredited)
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!
Carjack
Lee's Uncle
Story of a Chinese-American growing up in L.A.
Cage II: The Arena of Death
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!
Surf Ninjas
Stunts
Un grupo de ninjas intenta acabar con la vida de dos chicos. Un luchador oriental les protegerá y desvelará la verdad de su origen. Son príncipes de un lejano reino invadido por mercenarios que derrocaron y mataron a su padre el rey. Dados en adopción para protegerles, una profecía habla de que liberarán a su patria del yugo extranjero.
Sol naciente
Nakamoto Yakuza
Una joven y bella modelo muere asesinada durante una recepción organizada en Los Ángeles por la corporación japonesa Nakamoto. Le encargan el caso al teniente Smith, un rudo policía del departamento de homicidios al que ayuda en las pesquisas el capitán John Connor, un agente retirado con un profundo conocimiento de la cultura nipona. Adaptación al cine de una controvertida novela de Michael Crichton que, bajo la apariencia de un thriller, esconde una crítica a la cada vez mayor influencia japonesa en la economía estadounidense y a las prácticas agresivas y racistas de las grandes empresas niponas.
El guerrero americano 5
Tadashi
Intentando liberar a las hijas de un científico, el Ninja Americano se infiltra en un colegio en donde quizás encuentre las pistas suficientes para poder liberarlas de sus secuestradores.
Capital Punishment
Kenji Nakata
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.
Young Rebels
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 Game
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".
Sword of Heaven
Martial Arts Choreographer
A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring.
Sword of Heaven
Tadashi Kiresowa
A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring.
El guerrero americano
Black Star Ninja
En Filipinas, Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff), un soldado americano de la Armada, cae en una emboscada tendida por unos rebeldes. Pero con su supremo dominio de las artes marciales consigue defenderse y, de paso, descubrir una horrible conspiración en el seno del ejército americano...
Gymkata
Eastern Trainer
Jonathan Cabot es un laureado gimnasta que será elegido para luchar en una brutal competición que se llevará a cabo en Parmistán, un minúsculo y recóndito pais de Oriente. Para alzarse con el triunfo, Cabot deberá encontrar el punto de equilibrio entre sus conocimientos de gimnasia occidental y los secretos de la lucha oriental.
The Shinobi Ninja
Ken
Fighters hired to steal back a secret document that if public could destroy all democracy.
Duelo final
Seikura
Scott James (Chuck Norris), campeón de artes marciales retirado, se ve involucrado en una peligrosa aventura internacional cuando la mujer con la que sale, Nancy (Kim Lankford) es asesinada por una banda de matones Ninja. James se entera de que la familia de Nancy también ha sido asesinada, al igual que un importante magnate europeo de la prensa, y decidido a saber el por qué de estos sucesos, se pone en contacto con McCarn (Lee Van Cleef), un experto mercenario.
The Magnificent 3
American painter
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) find themselves thrown in jail together and left to rot there. Just when things seem their grimmest, the three are released, their bonds posted by an ex Army General. His intention is to put their supreme fighting skills to use against his family's black sheep, a powerful mafioso who employs top fighters from all over the world as protection.
Seven
Swordsman
Un agente del gobierno descubre un complot de un cartel de siete gángsteres para hacerse cargo del estado de Hawai. Contrata a un equipo de siete sicarios para detenerlos.
Soul of Chiba
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.
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 over the Japanese karate organization and will do everything they can to prevent it.
El monasterio de la muerte
Motai
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.
The Karate 2
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.
The Karate
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.