Tadashi Yamashita

Tadashi Yamashita

Nascimento : 1942-02-05, Japan

História

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

Perfil

Tadashi Yamashita

Filmes

A Fighting Chance
Grandmaster Tadashi
"Lutamos por apenas uma chance de chegar ao Rio 2016." - Miller/Linline (Dupla de vôlei de praia de Vanuatu). Curta-metragem que aborda a luta de atletas profissionais que lutam diariamente para treinar e chegar ao lugar mais alto do pódio. Uma história de inspiração. Curta-metragem dirigido por Morgan Neville e patrocinado por Samsumg.
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.
A Arena da Morte II
Wang
Lutador é tomado como refém por perigosa gangue e forçado a brigar até a morte com invencíveis mestres de artes marciais.
Surfistas Ninjas
Stunts
A vida de dois irmãos surfistas no sul da Califórnia muda completamente quando eles descobrem que são os herdeiros do trono de Patu San, uma desconhecida ilha localizada no Oceano Pacífico. Porém, o poder em Patu San foi tomado pelo coronel Chi, um maligno e incompetente guerreiro, que manda um grupo de mercenários para eliminar a dupla.
Sol Nascente
Nakamoto Yakuza
Um poderoso conglomerado japonês inaugura, em plena Los Angeles, a Torre Nakamoto. Na festa de lançamento uma série de empresários americanos são convidados, por estarem em negociações com os japoneses. Entretanto misteriosamente a garota de um dos executivos orientais aparece assassinada, durante a festa. Para investigar o caso são chamados o agente Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) e John Connor (Sean Connery), que viveu durante muito tempo no Japão. Enquanto Connor ensina a Smith aspectos da cultura nipônica, ambos investigam o assassinato.
American Ninja 5: O Pequeno Ninja
Tadashi
Joe Kastle (David Bradley), um exímio lutador faixa preta nas artes marciais, se une a Hiro (Lee Reyes) um órfão ninja de 12 anos numa sensacional luta para libertar um cientista e sua filha das garras de um industrial que quer roubar a fórmula de um produto químico, capaz de liquidar a humanidade. O Garoto e seu mestre contam somente com eles mesmos para enfrentar os bandidos e suas incontáveis armas.
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.
American Ninja: Guerreiro Americano
Black Star Ninja
Americano mestre em uma luta oriental poderosa está servindo nas Filipinas, quando o comboio de suprimentos que lidera é atacado por rebeldes. Ele reconhece um dos bandidos como um ninja negro e acaba tendo de combater toda a organização.
Gymkata
Eastern Trainer
U.S. agents send a gymnastic martial artist to secure a missile-base site in the savage country of Parmistan.
The Shinobi Ninja
Ken
Fighters hired to steal back a secret document that if public could destroy all democracy.
Octagon: Escola para Assassinos
Seikura
Nesta emocionante história de vingança, Scott James (Chuck Norris), um campeão de artes marciais, é levado a um perigoso campo de treinamento de terroristas conhecido como "Octagon". Atormentado por dolorosas lembranças de quando lutava, ele procura não se envolver mais em combates. Porém, quando uma rica herdeira a procura de vingança o contrata para se infiltrar em uma operação de terrorismo chefiada por seu irmão adotivo, Scott não pode imaginar o horror que vai enfrentar. Empurrado cada vez mais para dentro do "Octagon", Scott descobre que seu irmão usa suas habilidades para matar, treinando homens no estilo letal dos ninjas. Agora, para impedir que seu irmão continue seu caminho de sangue, ele terá que enfrentá-lo em um confronto final.
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
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.
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.
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
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.