Chris Tashima

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."

  • Title: Chris Tashima
  • Popularity: 0.918
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1960-03-24
  • Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Chris Tashima Movies

  • 2023
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    Kodama

    Kodama

    1 2023 HD

    An fantasy/action short about a SWAT Samurai team entering a spirit world to rescue a lost captain.

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  • 1987
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    Overkill

    Overkill

    2.6 1987 HD

    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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  • 2013
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    Real Playing Game

    Real Playing Game

    4.2 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Surviving Theater 9

    Surviving Theater 9

    1 2018 HD

    From the survivors of the Aurora Colorado Batman Movie Theater and Columbine mass shootings, a powerful and inspirational movie about the events and...

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  • 2012
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    Lil Tokyo Reporter

    Lil Tokyo Reporter

    1 2012 HD

    1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the...

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  • 2012
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    Model Minority

    Model Minority

    4.3 2012 HD

    Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug...

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  • 2022
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    No No Girl

    No No Girl

    1 2022 HD

    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....

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  • 1997
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    Visas and Virtue

    Visas and Virtue

    5.8 1997 HD

    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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  • 2003
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    Day of Independence

    Day of Independence

    1 2003 HD

    Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of...

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  • 1997
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    Strawberry Fields

    Strawberry Fields

    5.7 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    The Perfect Weapon

    The Perfect Weapon

    6.1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Under the Blood-Red Sun

    Under the Blood-Red Sun

    6.7 2014 HD

    December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a...

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  • 2006
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    Americanese

    Americanese

    2 2006 HD

    Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling...

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  • 1998
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    Lani Loa: The Passage

    Lani Loa: The Passage

    3 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

    1 2009 HD

    1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become...

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  • 1985
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    Killzone

    Killzone

    3.7 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    7.3 1984 HD

    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,...

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  • 2017
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    Go for Broke

    Go for Broke

    6 2017 HD

    During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight...

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  • 1986
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    The Karate Kid Part II

    The Karate Kid Part II

    6.3 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Lethal Weapon

    Lethal Weapon

    7.3 1987 HD

    Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a...

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  • 1995
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    Requiem

    Requiem

    1 1995 HD

    A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.

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  • 1985
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    The Hour of the Ox

    The Hour of the Ox

    1 1985 HD

    An unexpected visit from a jealous ex-girlfriend accidentally turns bloody, but a deadlier fate awaits when the clock reaches the hour of the ox.

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  • 1997
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    Visas and Virtue

    Visas and Virtue

    5.8 1997 HD

    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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  • 2003
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    Day of Independence

    Day of Independence

    1 2003 HD

    Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of...

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  • 2003
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    Day of Independence

    Day of Independence

    1 2003 HD

    Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of...

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  • 1997
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    Visas and Virtue

    Visas and Virtue

    5.8 1997 HD

    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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  • 1987
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    Near Dark

    Near Dark

    6.9 1987 HD

    A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen...

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  • 1979
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    Investigation of Fear

    Investigation of Fear

    1 1979 HD

    A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.

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  • 1979
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    Investigation of Fear

    Investigation of Fear

    1 1979 HD

    A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.

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  • 1979
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    Investigation of Fear

    Investigation of Fear

    1 1979 HD

    A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.

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  • 1979
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    Investigation of Fear

    Investigation of Fear

    1 1979 HD

    A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.

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  • 1979
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    Investigation of Fear

    Investigation of Fear

    1 1979 HD

    A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.

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