Chris Tashima
Chris Tashima is an award-winning American actor and director. He has starred in numerous independent feature films, most notably as the romantic lead opposite Joan Chen, Allison Sie, Kelly Hu and Autumn Reeser, in Eric Byler's Americanese which won a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Cast at SXSW. He was awarded Best Actor in a Supporting Role, at the inaugural Love International Film Festival, for his portrayal of Papa Nakaji in Tim Savage's World War II family drama Under the Blood Red Sun produced by Dana Satler Hankins. He portrayed real-life educator/activist Shigeo Yoshida in the 442nd RCT origin story Go For Broke from producer/screenwriter Stacey Hayashi. Most recently, he played the hard-nosed Uncle Bob in the generational family comedy No No Girl from writer/director Paul Daisuke Goodman--for which he received two nominations at the Austin Revolution Film Festival, and he plays Hiro in Brian M. Tang's action/fantasy short Kodama, receiving its world premiere at SXSW 2023.
Tashima received an Academy Award® for directing the dramatic short film Visas and Virtue, a re-telling of the heroic actions of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara. In addition he co-wrote the screenplay adapting a one-act play by Tim Toyama, and starred as the Humanitarian diplomat Sugihara. He also directed, co-wrote and starred in the WWII Japanese American internment short film Day of Independence which was nominated for a NATAS Northern California Area Emmy®. These two directorial works came from Tashima's own Cedar Grove Productions, an indie entertainment house aiming to "Boldly defy mainstream Hollywood by giving Asian Americans the close-up onscreen."
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.96 |
Birthday | 1960-03-24 |
Place of Birth | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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1987
Overkill
2.8/3
A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza ring operating in the city.
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Overkill
2013
Real Playing Game
4.3/22
In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for...
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Real Playing Game
2012
Lil Tokyo Reporter
0/0
1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the f...
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Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012
Model Minority
4.3/6
Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug de...
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Model Minority
1997
Strawberry Fields
5.7/3
After a visit from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16 year old Japanese American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better lif...
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Strawberry Fields
1998
Lani Loa: The Passage
3/1
A Hawaii cop becomes the suspect in a series of killings after his would-be bride is murdered on their wedding day by a gang of bank robbers, and retu...
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Lani Loa: The Passage
2009
Half Kenneth
0/0
1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become compl...
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Half Kenneth
2003
Day of Independence
0/0
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,...
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Day of Independence
2006
Americanese
2/1
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling frien...
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Americanese
1985
Killzone
2.5/2
A troubled Vietnam vet snaps during a training exercise at a survivalist-type military camp and thinks he's back in Vietnam. He kills several of the s...
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Killzone
1991
The Perfect Weapon
6.1/104
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's ment...
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The Perfect Weapon
2014
Under the Blood-Red Sun
6.7/5
December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near th...
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
1997
Visas and Virtue
5.8/4
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
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Visas and Virtue
1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
7.3/4881
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, t...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2017
Go for Broke
6/1
During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimin...
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Go for Broke
1986
The Karate Kid Part II
6.268/2080
After discovering that his father is at death's door, Mr. Miyagi sets out to Japan, to see him with Daniel. Upon arriving, Miyagi must confront an old...
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The Karate Kid Part II
1987
Lethal Weapon
7.29/4363
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a dea...
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Lethal Weapon
1995
Requiem
0/0
A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.
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Requiem
2018
Surviving Theater 9
0/0
From the survivors of the Aurora Colorado Batman Movie Theater and Columbine mass shootings, a powerful and inspirational movie about the events and a...
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Surviving Theater 9
2022
No No Girl
0/0
In the middle of the night, before they are to be sent to a Japanese American Internment Camp, one family buries a secret in their backyard garden. 80...
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No No Girl
2023
Kodama
0/0
An fantasy/action short about a SWAT Samurai team entering a spirit world to rescue a lost captain.
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