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Chris Tashima

Chris Tashima

Actor · b. 1960 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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."

Movies24

  • Movie7.4

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    1984 · 5.9K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Lethal Weapon

    1987 · 5.2K votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Karate Kid Part II

    1986 · 2.6K votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Sure Thing

    1985 · 339 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Once Bitten

    1985 · 382 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Night of the Creeps

    1986 · 607 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Moving Violations

    1985 · 76 votes

  • Movie5.4
  • Movie6.4

    The Perfect Weapon

    1991 · 138 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Kodama

    2023 · 4 votes

  • Movie4.4

    Savage Dawn

    1985 · 27 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Requiem

    1995 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Overkill

    1987 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Scandal Sheet

    1985 · 5 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Not My Kid

    1985 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Barrier Device

    2002 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie5.3

    Generation

    1985 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Lani Loa: The Passage

    1998 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie4.3

    Americanese

    2006 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.0

    Real Playing Game

    2013 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Killzone

    1985 · 5 votes

  • Movie

Series9

  • TV8.2

    The Shield

    2002 · 902 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV7.4

    Highway to Heaven

    1984 · 207 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Fall Guy

    1981 · 182 votes

  • TV7.7

    Unsolved Mysteries

    1988 · 154 votes

  • TV6.3

    1st & Ten

    1984 · 12 votes

  • TV8.3

    Sara

    1985 · 3 votes

  • TV8.6
  • TV6.0

    Vital Signs

    1997 · 6 votes