Yuya Uchida

Yuya Uchida

Born: November 17, 1939
Died: March 17, 2019
in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Yuya Uchida was a Japanese singer, record producer, and actor. With a career spanning six decades, he was a major figure in Japanese popular music. He appeared in numerous films, such as Nagisa Ōshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and won two best acting awards. He also starred in the American film Black Rain.

Movies for Yuya Uchida...

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Title: The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Released: January 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.
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Protect the President
Title: Protect the President
Released: August 20, 2010
Type: Movie
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Johnen: Love of Sada
Title: Johnen: Love of Sada
Released: May 31, 2008
Type: Movie
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
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Released: September 29, 2007
Type: Movie
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
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Izo
Title: Izo
Character: Second Man
Released: September 7, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
Title: Akame 48 Waterfalls
Released: October 25, 2003
Type: Movie
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Title: Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Character: Yoshikatsu Sanada
Released: September 21, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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The Accomplice
Title: The Accomplice
Released: April 10, 1999
Type: Movie
This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
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Erotic Liaisons
Title: Erotic Liaisons
Character: Kishin
Released: October 17, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Dioxin from Fish!
Title: Dioxin from Fish!
Released: February 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
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Black Rain
Title: Black Rain
Character: Nashida
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Title: Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Character: Boss Akabei
Released: February 4, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Labyrinth Romanesque
Title: Labyrinth Romanesque
Character: Shosuke Mitani
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
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The Heartbreak Yakuza
Title: The Heartbreak Yakuza
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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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No More Comics!
Title: No More Comics!
Character: Toshiaki Kinameri
Released: March 24, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Title: The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Character: Hero
Released: July 2, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Title: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Character: Commandant of Military Prison
Released: May 28, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Title: So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Character: Komatsu
Released: November 20, 1982
Type: Movie
First production by Directors’ Company. The film depicts the lives of a young man with dreams of becoming a rock superstar and his two friends.
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Call Girl
Title: Call Girl
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior.
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A Pool Without Water
Title: A Pool Without Water
Character: Man
Released: February 20, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Rolling on the Road
Title: Rolling on the Road
Character: Jyoji(ジョージ)
Released: October 23, 1981
Type: Movie
George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.
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Yokohama BJ Blues
Title: Yokohama BJ Blues
Character: Keisuke
Released: April 25, 1981
Type: Movie
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.
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Path of the Beast
Title: Path of the Beast
Character: Ataru
Released: March 29, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Red Violation
Title: Red Violation
Character: Yuya
Released: January 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The film follows the rock band "Devils" on stage and off, including the various amorous adventures of the members.
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Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
Title: Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
Released: August 18, 1979
Type: Movie
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
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Prey
Title: Prey
Released: June 23, 1979
Type: Movie
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.
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The Rivals
Title: The Rivals
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Young Animals
Title: The Young Animals
Released: December 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Shinji, a leather jacket man on a Harley Davidson, meets Megu, who is a queen bee with followers while stopping the fight between two female groups. Megu fell in love with Shinji, but he has his eye on cute Mayo.
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Erotic Liaisons
Title: Erotic Liaisons
Character: Kôtarô Higaki
Released: July 8, 1978
Type: Movie
The story of a second rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man.
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Pink Tush Girl
Title: Pink Tush Girl
Character: Sen'ichi Yamada
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Yuko's boyfriend dumps her just after they have her first sexual experience, so she runs away from her Tokyo home to the western coast of Japan in order to straighten out her feelings. Following behind her on her journey is her friend Rena, who is trying to track Yuko down and find out if she is all right. As Rena traces Yuko's steps, always missing her by a day or two, she discovers that her friend has decided to drop her inhibitions and begin enjoying herself with every man she encounters.
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Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
Title: Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
Released: September 17, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.
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Confessions of a Teenage Mother
Title: Confessions of a Teenage Mother
Character: Tokio
Released: July 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
Title: Case of the Disjointed Murder
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
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...
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Statue in Fire
Title: Statue in Fire
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
Title: Yabanjin no Nekutai
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
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Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
Title: Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
Character: Hisao Kayama
Released: November 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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Campus A Go-Go
Title: Campus A Go-Go
Character: Host
Released: December 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.