Yuya Uchida

Acting

Yuya Uchida

Born 1939-11-17 · 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.

Acting credits

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence poster
7.3

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.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

1983

Black Rain poster
6.6

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.

Black Rain

1989

Labyrinth Romanesque poster
5.0

A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

Labyrinth Romanesque

1988

Izo poster
6.1

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.

Izo

2004

Johnen: Love of Sada poster
5.6

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

Johnen: Love of Sada

2008

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.5

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.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

A Pool Without Water poster
5.4

After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep and gets carried away into a new, violent world of ideas.

A Pool Without Water

1982

Pink Tush Girl poster
4.6

As two Japanese high school students, Rena and Yuko, navigate their first uncertain sexual experiences, they travel across Japan, discovering how choices they face can both separate and unite them.

Pink Tush Girl

1978

The Heartbreak Yakuza poster
5.0

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.

The Heartbreak Yakuza

1987

Campus A Go-Go poster
8.0

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football.

Campus A Go-Go

1965

Path of the Beast poster
4.5

17 year old Saki lives in a run-down shack 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, Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys.

Path of the Beast

1980

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka poster
6.6

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.

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

2002

Yokohama BJ Blues poster
7.8

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.

Yokohama BJ Blues

1981

Erotic Liaisons poster
4.6

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists.

Erotic Liaisons

1992

No More Comics! poster
6.4

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.

No More Comics!

1986

Rolling on the Road poster
4.8

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.

Rolling on the Road

1981

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor poster
6.6

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.

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

1983

The Young Animals poster
5.3

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.

The Young Animals

1978

Akame 48 Waterfalls poster
6.1

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.

Akame 48 Waterfalls

2003

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers poster
2.0

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.

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

2018

Confessions of a Teenage Mother poster
6.7

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.

Confessions of a Teenage Mother

1977

A Message for Maggie poster
NR

Banmei Takahashi's first original video. Mako danced, Rocky ran, Haruna floated, and Yuya was there...

A Message for Maggie

1985

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex poster
2.5

Rachi has aspirations of becoming a punk rocker. But his tendency towards self-sabotage and a budding sexual addiction makes matters increasingly difficult for him and his band mates to make it big.

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

1982

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82 poster
6.0

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...

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82

1979

Behind the camera