Toshishiro Obata

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Toshishiro Obata

Born 1948-10-20 Gunma Prefecture, Japan 17 films

Toshishiro Obata is the founder of Shinkendo. He is well known in Japan as a tameshigiri champion for several years in a row and is an authorized shitoka. He studied aikido under Gozo Shioda in the Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo, and studied the sword arts of Nakamura-ryu, Ioriken Battojutsu, Toyama-ryu, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, Kashima Shin-ryu, Ryukyu Kobudo, and others. He moved to America in 1980 to start teaching and to develop his own sword art, based on his extens…

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Filmography

17 films
The Samurai poster

They were the knights of medieval Japan, an elite warrior class that held the reins of power and th…

The Samurai

★ 0.0 2003

The Hunted poster

Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of dang…

The Hunted

★ 5.7 1995

Red Sun Rising poster

Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho.…

Red Sun Rising

★ 4.9 1994

The Shadow poster

Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans t…

The Shadow

★ 6.1 1994

Blue Tiger poster

Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a hal…

Blue Tiger

★ 5.1 1994

Demolition Man poster

In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to de…

Demolition Man

★ 6.8 1993

Rising Sun poster

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporatio…

Rising Sun

★ 6.1 1993

Rage and Honor poster

Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he…

Rage and Honor

★ 5.1 1992