Name
Chris Tashima
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1960-03-24 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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
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Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria...
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A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences asi...
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A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes...
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In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze...
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A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep the...
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Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of tea...
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Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both...
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Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck t...
- 2023 Kodama as Hiro
- 1987 Overkill as Nagumo Jr.
- 2013 Real Playing Game as Mr. Chan
- 2018 Surviving Theater 9 as Professor Cambro
- 2012 Lil Tokyo Reporter as Sei Fujii
- 2012 Model Minority as Ken Tanaka
- 2022 No No Girl as Uncle Bob
- 1997 Visas and Virtue as Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara
- 2014 Under the Blood-Red Sun as Papa Nakaji
- 2003 Day of Independence as The Umpire
- 1997 Strawberry Fields as Mark
- 2006 Americanese as Raymond Ding
- 2009 Half Kenneth as Masamichi
- 1998 Lani Loa: The Passage as Bong
- 1991 The Perfect Weapon as Bag Man
- 1985 Killzone as Crawford's Men
- 2017 Go for Broke as Shigeo Yoshida
- 1986 The Karate Kid Part II as The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
- 1987 Lethal Weapon as Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
- 1995 Requiem as Philip
- 1985 The Hour of the Ox as James
- 1985 Scandal Sheet as (uncredited)
- 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street as Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)
- 1984 Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo as Club Patron (uncredited)
- 1985 The Sure Thing as Frat Guy at Punch Bowl (uncredited)
- 1985 Moving Violations as Parade Extra (uncredited)
- 1985 Generation as Gang Extra (uncredited)
- 1985 Once Bitten as Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)
- 1985 Savage Dawn as Extra (uncredited)
- 1986 Night of the Creeps as Extra (uncredited)
- 2002 Barrier Device as Actor in Diamond Jeweler Commercial (uncredited)
- 1985 Not My Kid as Student (uncredited)
- 2020 Searching for Anna May Wong as Self
- 1985 Sara ( 1 episode ) as Concert Goer (uncredited)
- 1984 Highway to Heaven ( 1 episode ) as Camper's Dad (uncredited)
- 1985 The Mechanical Universe ( 1 episode ) as Freefall Rider (segment "Magic Mountain")
- 1981 The Fall Guy ( 1 episode ) as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- 1984 1st & Ten ( 1 episode ) as Reporter (uncredited)
- 1982 St. Elsewhere ( 1 episode ) as Technician (uncredited)
- 1988 Unsolved Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
- 1997 Vital Signs ( 1 episode ) as Surgeon
- 2002 The Shield ( 1 episode ) as Chris Yamamoto (scenes deleted)
