Yoshirō Uchida

Yoshirō Uchida

Born: December 14, 1953
in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Yoshirō Uchida...

Nezura 1964
Title: Nezura 1964
Character: Takiyama
Released: December 19, 2020
Type: Movie
A biopic based on the production of Daiei's Giant Horde Beast Nezura, the scrapped precursor to Gamera.
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The Great Buddha: Arrival
Title: The Great Buddha: Arrival
Released: December 15, 2018
Type: Movie
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson. From Japan, a modern kaiju story based on what may be the first kaiju film.
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Title: Kumokiri Nizaemon
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: TV
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.
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The Moon Mask Rider
Title: The Moon Mask Rider
Released: March 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion
Title: The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
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Stray Dog
Title: Stray Dog
Released: September 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
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The Forbidden Fruit
Title: The Forbidden Fruit
Character: Shiina
Released: December 25, 1970
Type: Movie
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Gakuen-sai no yoru: Amai taiken
Title: Gakuen-sai no yoru: Amai taiken
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She befriends one of the school's misfits, Yoshiyuki Mizuno, which starts to change her life. The film follows the way Makiko Hayashi's life changes throughout the time, from a model student with high ambitions, to someone who is uncertain enough about her future, that she feels the only way out is to start anew.
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High School Affair
Title: High School Affair
Character: Noboru Kato
Released: August 22, 1970
Type: Movie
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Portrait of Hell
Title: Portrait of Hell
Released: November 18, 1969
Type: Movie
The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Gamera vs. Guiron
Title: Gamera vs. Guiron
Character: Toshio Sakurai (archive footage)
Released: March 21, 1969
Type: Movie
Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.
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The House of Wooden Blocks
Title: The House of Wooden Blocks
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of immoral behaviour.
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Pomegranate Time
Title: Pomegranate Time
Character: Rokusuke Kuwata
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
Title: Gamera, the Giant Monster
Character: Toshio Sakurai
Released: November 27, 1965
Type: Movie
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.