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Chris Tashima
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Chris Tashima
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1960-03-24,Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
Male
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."

Filmography

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Kodama
2023-03-11

2.6

Overkill
1987-12-16

Real Playing Game

4.2

Real Playing Game
2013-08-28

Surviving Theater 9

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Surviving Theater 9
2018-04-22

Lil Tokyo Reporter

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Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012-09-14

4.3

Model Minority
2012-05-11

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No No Girl
2022-09-09

Visas and Virtue

5.8

Visas and Virtue
1997-05-01

Day of Independence

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Day of Independence
2003-09-26

Strawberry Fields

5.7

Strawberry Fields
1997-03-09

The Perfect Weapon

6.1

The Perfect Weapon
1991-03-15

Under the Blood-Red Sun

6.7

Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014-09-14

2

Americanese
2006-03-15

Lani Loa: The Passage

3

Lani Loa: The Passage
1998-09-25

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Half Kenneth
2009-04-18

3.7

Killzone
1985-05-01

A Nightmare on Elm Street

7.3

A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984-10-31

6

Go for Broke
2017-10-14

The Karate Kid Part II

6.283

The Karate Kid Part II
1986-06-18

7.29

Lethal Weapon
1987-03-06

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Requiem
1995-11-07

The Hour of the Ox

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The Hour of the Ox
1985-01-01