Toshishiro Obata

Toshishiro Obata (b. 1948) is a Japanese martial artist and actor who played Tatsu, Shredder's second-in-command, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. 
Obata studied aikido and other disciplines. In the 1970s, he joined Tokyo Wakakoma, a group of martial artists who did stuntwork and fight choreography for films. He moved to America in 1980, teaching (as chief instructor for the Battodo Federation) as well as acting and doing stunt work. He appeared in and was fight consultant for Ghost Warrior (1984). During the boom of martial arts and swordplay themed action movies in the 1980s and '90s, Obata worked on Black Rain (with John Spencer), China O'Brien and its sequel, Rage and Honor (with Catherine Bach), Showdown in Little Tokyo (with Philip Tan), The Sword of Bushido, The Shadow, Demolition Man (with Sylvester Stallone), and Blue Tiger (with Virginia Madsen). He appeared in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger as a karate instructor and was interviewed in installments of Fight Science and Modern Marvels (about the sharpest swords).
Obata founded his own martial arts discipline, shinkendo.
==External links==
*IMDb
*Biography on official Shinkendo site
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