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person_profile-Chris Tashima

Chris Tashima Age: 64

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Chris Tashima

Date of Birth:

Mar 24, 1960

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

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."

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Filmography of

Chris Tashima

Found 14 Movies in total

No No Girl

Uncle Bob ( Actor )

... 2022

Surviving Theater 9

Professor Cambro ( Actor )

... 2018

Go for Broke

Shigeo Yoshida ( Actor )

... 2017

Under the Blood-Red Sun

Papa Nakaji ( Actor )

... 2014

Real Playing Game

Mr. Chan ( Actor )

... 2013

Model Minority

Ken Tanaka ( Actor )

... 2012

Americanese

Raymond Ding ( Actor )

... 2006

Strawberry Fields

Mark ( Actor )

... 1997

The Perfect Weapon

Bag Man ( Actor )

... 1991

Overkill

Nagumo Jr. ( Actor )

... 1987

Lethal Weapon

Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1987

The Karate Kid Part II

The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1986

Killzone

Crawford's Men ( Actor )

... 1985

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Kid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1984