Chris Tashima
出生 : 1960-03-24, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
略歴
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."
Uncle Bob
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. 80 years later, a clue is discovered and what begins as a mystery soon turns criminal as a family of different minds try to come together to discover the truth of their past.
Professor Cambro
From the survivors of the Aurora Colorado Batman Movie Theater and Columbine mass shootings, a powerful and inspirational movie about the events and about hope.
Shigeo Yoshida
During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.
Papa Nakaji
December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when Japan launches a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. As Tomi looks up at the sky and recognizes the Blood-Red Sun emblem on the fighter planes, he knows that his life has changed forever. Based on actual events, Under the Blood-Red Sun is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage and survival.
Mr. Chan
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 for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.
Sei Fujii
1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the face of his deteriorating community and confronting the issues head on through his newspaper. Based on a true story.
Ken Tanaka
Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug dealer.
Masamichi
1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become complicated, however, when Kens little brother, Jo, joins him at the last minute.
Raymond Ding
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other
The Umpire
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.
Co-Writer
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.
Director
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.
Bong
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 returns as a ghost, taking vengeance on her killers, the Lono Gang.
Co-Writer
1940年夏、ソ連に併合されかけている小国リトアニアの各国大使館や領事館は、相次いで閉鎖されつつあった。同時にナチスの侵略も迫っていた。そんな時期に、命の危険を感じた大量のユダヤ難民が、安全な第三国へ逃れようと日本領事館に殺到する。ビザを発行してくれるのはもはや日本領事館しか残っていないのだ。領事代理の杉原千畝は本国外務省にビザ発行の許可を求める。本省からは「発給は不許可」との返信電報が届くが…。
Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara
1940年夏、ソ連に併合されかけている小国リトアニアの各国大使館や領事館は、相次いで閉鎖されつつあった。同時にナチスの侵略も迫っていた。そんな時期に、命の危険を感じた大量のユダヤ難民が、安全な第三国へ逃れようと日本領事館に殺到する。ビザを発行してくれるのはもはや日本領事館しか残っていないのだ。領事代理の杉原千畝は本国外務省にビザ発行の許可を求める。本省からは「発給は不許可」との返信電報が届くが…。
Director
1940年夏、ソ連に併合されかけている小国リトアニアの各国大使館や領事館は、相次いで閉鎖されつつあった。同時にナチスの侵略も迫っていた。そんな時期に、命の危険を感じた大量のユダヤ難民が、安全な第三国へ逃れようと日本領事館に殺到する。ビザを発行してくれるのはもはや日本領事館しか残っていないのだ。領事代理の杉原千畝は本国外務省にビザ発行の許可を求める。本省からは「発給は不許可」との返信電報が届くが…。
Mark
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 life. Hooking up with activist friends along the way, she comes to an important realization about her past: that her parents were incarcerated in an internment camp during World War II. She detours her road trip, ditches her boyfriend and drives off into the Arizona desert in a determined search for the truth that will set her free.
Philip
A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.
Bag Man
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 mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
Nagumo Jr.
A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza ring operating in the city.
Carpenter
田舎町の農場で暮らすカウボーイの青年ケイレブ(エイドリアン・パスダー)は、ある月夜の晩、道端で佇むメイと名乗る美しい少女(ジェニー・ライト)と出会う。彼女の怪しげな魅力に虜となるケイレブだったが、実はメイは吸血鬼だった。メイに首筋を噛まれたことで吸血鬼へと変貌してしまったケイレブは、正体不明の一団に拉致され止む無くメイたち吸血鬼の首領ジェシー(ランス・ヘンリクセン)率いる一味に加わるのだが...。
Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
ある夜、ロサンゼルスの高級アパートメントから売春婦が飛び降り自殺する。LA市警察本部捜査第一課のロジャー・マータフ部長刑事が現場の捜査を始めた矢先に新しい相棒、マーティン・リッグス刑事が異動してくる。リッグスはマータフよりかなり若いがベトナム戦争では陸軍特殊部隊員として死線をくぐりぬけた経験があり、拳銃射撃と格闘の力量は極めて高い。ただ、3年前に愛妻を事故で亡くして以来、自暴自棄になることが多く市警察本部でも問題になっていた。マータフはこの新しい相棒に困惑しながらも自宅に招くなどして次第に打ち解けるようになっていく。そしてリッグスと共に売春婦飛び降り自殺事件を捜査していくと、背景にCIA特殊部隊のOBたちによるヘロイン密輸組織が浮かび上がってくる。
The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
ダニエル少年とミヤギ老人が空手を通して友情を育む姿を描く「ベスト・キッド」シリーズの第2弾。今回は舞台をミヤギの故郷、沖縄に移してミヤギに復讐を目論むグループとの対立を描く。ミヤギのもとに父親の危篤を知らせる手紙が届いた。彼は弟子のダニエル（マッチオ）を連れて、故郷の沖縄に戻る。だがそこには、かつて同じ女性を愛したがために宿敵となった男が、復讐のために待ちかまえていた……。
Crawford's Men
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 staff members who he thinks are Vietcong. The other participants set out to track him down and capture him before he hurts or kills anyone else. However, the camp's owner, who knows he'll be in trouble if word of this incident gets out, has no intention of capturing the man; he plans on killing him.
Kid (uncredited)
毎夜殺人鬼フレディに追いつめられる悪夢を見ていた少女ナンシー。危機一髪のところで目を覚ますのだがホッとする間もなくまたフレディが現れる。二重三重の悪夢と闘うナンシーの運命は果たして……。
Hiro
An fantasy/action short about a SWAT Samurai team entering a spirit world to rescue a lost captain.
