Yukari Ôshima

Acting

Yukari Ôshima

Born 1963-12-31 · Fukuoka, Japan

The female martial artist and action actress better known to Western audiences as Yukari Oshima has so far appeared in over 60 Chinese and Filipino films released between 1986 and 1999. Despite being a Japanese national, Yukari has acted in only one Japanese movie, cast as a radio reporter in a special guest appearance. After living and working in the Philippines for a number of years, Yukari returned to Japan and began working in tourism. Her screen legacy of fight scenes are among the most spectacular of all of Asian action cinema. Yukari performed her own action scenes without doubles and actively sought out the forceful reality of full-contact Hong Kong movies as a showcase for her own physical skill.

Acting credits

Millionaires' Express poster
6.7

What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Millionaires' Express

1986

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky poster
6.9

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

1991

Legendary Amazons poster
5.8

In 11th century China, the Emperor Renzong reigns his country poorly, neglecting state affairs while the government sinks into corruption and war rages at his borders, whose only protection left is the famous Yang clan. However, when the last man of the family falls, leaving the country open to its invaders, the clan’s formidable women take up arms to lead the army to victory and seek vengeance against corrupt officials.

Legendary Amazons

2011

Leopard Hunting poster
5.0

A late 90s action vehicle with several Girls with Guns ambitions seen in its casting, most obviously Yukari Oshima.

Leopard Hunting

1998

1/3 Lover poster
6.7

Everyone seems to be chasing Mona Hsia-Hwang. The opening scene has her being pursued a cornered by a cop, who molests her with his pistol. She gives into his attentions, then shoots him, establishing her credentials as a femme fatale. We then meet Mona's young cousin May, being picked up by Mona's husband's adopted son Li Wai Wai. Wai is the smouldering sullen type, whom May fancies almost immediately. Trouble is, Wai is secretly in love with Mona. Mona tends to the bodily functions of her sick and elderly husband Hwang Fei Hung. Fei Hung has a heart condition, and is under medical orders to avoid excitement. But, with a wife as luscious as Rena M, how is this possible?

1/3 Lover

1993

Gambling Ghost Are Ready poster
9.0

The ghost of a gambling master (Wu Ma) returns to earth to help his granddaughter (Yuraki Oshima) to win the annual competition organized by the gambling master of the current year who is the killer of her parents and grandfather.

Gambling Ghost Are Ready

1991

Supercop 2 poster
5.7

As a crime wave sweeps through Hong Kong, the police call Jessica Yang, a rising star in the ranks, to help stop a notorious gang of thieves! What Jessica doesn't realize is that her boyfriend – recently discharged from the force – is the leader of this ruthless crime ring!

Supercop 2

1993

Iron Angels poster
6.7

Yeung’s poppy fields are torched by a law enforcement task force, she retaliates by ordering police officials assassinated. The Angels break into Yeung’s corporate offices, eventually tracing her headquarters. After Alex Fong’s character is captured and held by Yeung, the Angels mount an assault to rescue him. A complex sub-plot involving an armored car bullion robbery eventually leads the Angels to a final showdown with Yeung and her men.

Iron Angels

1987

Ghost's Love poster
6.0

A young woman, Sin Yun, dates Wu Tian - a gangster. He drugs her and has intercourse, then turns her over to his gang. When she resists, they beat her to death and dump her body in Lake Tian. Her spirit returns to haunt Wu Tian. The ghost also contacts her sister and enters the body of another young woman who has been killed.

Ghost's Love

1993

The Avenging Quartet poster
6.6

A female Chinese cop teams up with a lady kung-fu master to stop two female Japanese gangsters from stealing a valuable painting.

The Avenging Quartet

1993

Double Sin poster
NR

After serving time for beating a copy by mistake, Ho has the misfortune of being set up to manage a company that went bankrupt. Ho runs away to avoid a possible second jail term, now only a radio disc jockey and a sympathetic inspector can prove Ho innocent of both crime.

Double Sin

1999

Lethal Panther 2 poster
6.0

An Interpol agent and a Chinese cop team up to track down a murderous gangster.

Lethal Panther 2

1993

Choudenshi Bioman: The Movie poster
6.2

Bioman must rescue two boys who possess an ancient treasure map that leads to Biobase, making them targeted by Gear.

Choudenshi Bioman: The Movie

1984

Angel Terminators 2 poster
6.3

When teens help a friend who's been forced into prostitution they upset some very dangerous people. With the help of a renegade cop a bloody war ensues with tragic consequences.

Angel Terminators 2

1992

Dreaming the Reality poster
7.2

An expert assassin - trained since childhood to be the perfect killer - loses her memory during a mission in Thailand, and ends up in the care of a wry ex-policewoman and her boxing cohort. The equally lethal sister of the assassin pursues her, uncertain of her intentions and whether to kill her.

Dreaming the Reality

1991

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call poster
7.0

The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada's best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call

1995

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NR

A newly married bride's blissful life is suddenly shattered when her home is invaded by a group of thieves who murder her husband and take turns sexually assaulting her. As the years pass and the police come up with no leads, she decides to turn herself into a living weapon and track down the men who destroyed her happiness.

Vengeance Is Mine

1997

Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1 poster
9.0

Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1 is a Documentary on Hong Kong cinema.

Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1

1995

Angel of Vengeance poster
4.0

In the vein of HARD BOILED and NAKED KILLER comes this action-crime thriller in which two young women caught in a power struggle among a trio of mobsters must struggle to survive in a world run by vice and corruption.

Angel of Vengeance

1993

A Serious Shock! Yes Madam! poster
6.0

In this action packed Hong Kong Yes Madam installment two friends in the police force are in love with the same man. After a certain incident one of them goes crazy and does everything she can to kill her former friend.

A Serious Shock! Yes Madam!

1993

Framed poster
7.3

Simon Yam plays a cop that has just been released from jail after serving some years there. He claims he is innocent of all charges, and was in fact "framed".

Framed

1989

A Book of Heroes poster
6.8

When a crime lord moves in on Hong Kong territory, conflicts ensues. Soon a shipment of gold bars disappears, and many go for the gold. Three women use their martial arts skills to take down the baddies. Super cool fights, kicks, shapes and mad stunts.

A Book of Heroes

1986

Burning Ambition poster
6.9

This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.

Burning Ambition

1989

Brave Young Girls poster
4.9

Yukari Oshima stars as a Japanese Interpol officer investigating the triads for drug smuggling and recruits some young girls coerced into prostitution by the gangs to gather incriminating evidence. However, when the girls are caught for selling out their bosses, Yukari Oshima hatches a plan to get them out which culminates in an exhilarating extended fight sequence.

Brave Young Girls

1990

Behind the camera