James Shigeta

Having escaped capture by the Klingons, a damaged Starfleet reconnaissance probe crashes undetected on the planet Pahl III. Hikaru Sulu, serving as first officer on the retrofitted USS Yorktown, is sent by Admiral Nogura on a secret mission to help locate the missing spy drone.

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

The People I've Slept With - a promiscuous woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and needs to figure out who the baby daddy is...NOW. Angela Yang loves sex. She loves it so much she needs to make baseball cards of her lovers to help her remember where she's been. She doesn't think twice about her lifestyle until she finds out that she's pregnant. Her gay best friend, Gabriel Lugo tells her to "take care of it," but her conservative sister, Juliet persuades Angela to get married to the baby's father and lead a "normal" life like her. Angela listens to her sister, chooses to keep the baby, and goes on a quest to find the identity of the father by any means necessary.

Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues and treasures. It weaves together a wondrous portrait of actors, directors, writers, and movie icons who have defined American feature films, from the silent era to the current new wave of Asian American cinema. At once entertaining and enlightening, Hollywood Chinese reveals long-untold stories behind the Asian faces that have graced the silver screen, and weaves a rich and complicated tapestry, one marked by unforgettable performances and groundbreaking films, but also by a tangled history of race and representation.

From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen examines the portrayal Asian men in film and television, and how new filmmakers are now re-defining age-old stereotypes.

Yamamoto es un yakuza que viaja a Los Ángeles para encontrarse con su hermano pequeño, Ken, al que protege y financia mediante sus ingresos criminales. Pero al llegar allí, descubre que Ken está realizando unas operaciones de tráfico de drogas sin demasiado futuro. Yamamoto decide ayudarle mostrándole cómo tomar los bajos fondos de Los Ángeles al estilo de la mafia japonesa, es decir, usando matones profesionales que basen sus acciones en un estricto código del honor que chocará con la mentalidad criminal norteamericana.

This documentary introduces viewers to qigong, a 5,000-year-old method of cultivating and circulating the life energy called qi. It relates some of the history of qigong, as well as scientific evidence of efficacy. We also see qigong used in various contexts in modern China, and hear from Chinese doctors and qigong practitioners. The film was originally produced for the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Mulán, una joven china hija única de la familia Fa, en lugar de buscar novio, como sus amigas, trata por todos los medios de alistarse en el ejército imperial para evitar que su anciano padre sea llamado a filas para defender al Emperador del acoso de los Hunos. Cuando el emisario imperial lleva a cabo la orden de reclutar a los varones de todas las familias, Mulán se hará pasar por soldado y se someterá a un duro entrenamiento hasta hacerse merecedora de la estima y de la confianza del resto de su escuadrón.

Año 2008. Toby Wong escapa de los hombres de la siniestra corporación Leung. En su huida, Toby acaba por involucrar a un pobre perdedor. Los dos son sometidos a una brutal persecución. Los hombres de Leung van detrás de un prototipo que está en poder de Toby: un artefacto biotecnológico que aumenta la fuerza física de quien lo lleva implantado....

Space pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter explosive and an important official. Space marines, led by Captain Gray, must stop their evil plans.

After being tricked into thinking his best friend, and caretaker is dead, Vietnam Vet, and mentally disabled person has no other choice but to enter The Arena Of Death!

The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or an actual murder plot, until Jonathan finds himself the unsuspecting target of a killer. It begins to look like the culprit behind the plot is an old friend, Frank Crane, but there may be a connection to a corporate takeover of Hart Industries as well.

Drama establecido en los años 50, basado en una historia verdadera, sobre una muchacha joven, Sung Neng Yee, que se trae como parte de una familia china rica. Ella está ansiosa por formar parte de la "nueva sociedad" de Mao Tze Tung, pero pronto se desilusiona por la miseria económica que los cambios traen a su familia. En poco tiempo, las autoridades toman conciencia de los sentimientos de Neng Yee y la llevan a un campo de trabajo, supervisado por el sádico coronel Cheng.

A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two open up a bar together, but some local gangsters make things tough for them after they refuse to take part in brutal "cage" matches where fighters battle to the point of serious injury and/or death.

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films such as "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Good Earth", and "The World of Suzie Wong", interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.

John MacClane, un duro policía neoyorquino, acude a Los Angeles para pasar unos días de vacaciones con sus hijos y su esposa Holly. En el transcurso de la fiesta navideña que la empresa de Holly da en el moderno edificio Nakatoni, éste es asaltado por un supuesto grupo terrorista liderado por un megalomano llamado Hans Gruber.

In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.

The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.

The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.

Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1942 empezó la guerra naval, en la que norteamericanos y japoneses se enfrentaron por el dominio del Pacífico. Mientras la flota de portaaviones japoneses luchaba para tomar Midway y destruir las naves enemigas, las fuerzas estadounidenses, formadas por tres portaaviones y numerosos barcos de apoyo, intentaban resistir el envite.

After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.

In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.

La Yakuza es una mafia japonesa cuyo origen se remonta al siglo XVII. Utiliza los mismos métodos que las mafias occidentales y, como ellas, controla los negocios más turbios: la prostitución, el blanqueo de dinero, el contrabando, etc. Después de la Revolución Meijí (1868), que supuso la occidentalización del Japón, muchos samuráis pasaron a engrosar las filas de esta organización. Harry Kilman, un hombre que formó parte de las tropas de ocupación estadounidenses en Japón, vuelve a este país para ayudar a un amigo cuya hija ha sido secuestrada.

Varios países con recursos financian el Proyecto Questor, la idea es llegar más allá en el arte androide con la fabricación de un super-humano, partiendo del material dejado por el desaparecido creador principal del proyecto el profesor Vaslovik. En ausencia del Dr. Vaslovik, sus antiguos colegas intentan descifrar las cintas de programación para asegurarse de que no haya nada malicioso y destruir parte de ellas en el proceso.

Un grupo de personajes extranjeros, se encuentra en la ciudad de Baskula y tratando de huir de la guerra, consiguen un avión que se espera les lleve hasta Hong Kong. Pero el avión es secuestrado y un accidente mecánico les obligará a aterrizar en lo alto del Himalaya donde, curiosamente, los pasajeros son rescatados y llevados a un sitio paradisíaco, donde no hay enfermedad y donde se puede vivir muchos años en paz y en armonía. El lugar es conocido como Shangri-La… Pero también allí hay alguien que ansía marcharse.

TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.

Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and friend. Operation Heartbeat was the pilot movie for the TV series Medical Center.

Two American POWs break out of a Japanese jungle prison camp with their captors' secret decoding device and try to reach freedom despite being slowed by an opportunistic sea captain, his pretty daughter, and a black marketeer.

War drama set in the closing stages of World War Two. As Allied Forces are nearing the defeat of the Japanese Army in Manila, the Japanese Empire's soldiers begin attacking innocent civilians. A brutal month-long battle ensues.

This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.

The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.

Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father. Source: SWDB http://www.spaghetti-western.net

Rick Richards es un piloto de helicópteros que se ha quedado sin trabajo. Entonces, pretende abrir una empresa de servicios de transporte en Hawai con su amigo Danny Kohana. En Hawai conocerá a hermosas chicas y se enamorará de Judy Hudson.

Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

Basada en hechos reales. En los días anteriores al ataque de Pearl Harbor, una joven norteamericana y un muchacho japonés se casan locamente enamorados, poco después de conocerse en la embajada nipona de Washington. Ambos viajan a Japón en pleno estallido del conflicto, y allí las diferencias mentales y culturales unidas a las hostilidades entre sus respectivos países provocarán problemas en la relación de la pareja.

Andy Cyphers es un fotógrafo de la marina estadounidense, que acaba estableciéndose con sus hombres en la residencia de un grupo de geishas.

California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.

Dos agentes de Los Ángeles, uno americano y otro japonés, que fueron compañeros en la guerra de Corea, deben investigar el asesinato de una bailarina de streaptease. Su amistad se verá puesta a prueba por culpa de una pintora implicada en el caso. (FILMAFFINITY)