James Shigeta

James Shigeta

출생 : 1929-06-17, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

사망 : 2014-07-28

약력

James Saburo Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor, singer, and musician of Japanese descent. He was noted for his roles in The Crimson Kimono (1959), Walk Like a Dragon (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Bridge to the Sun (1961), Die Hard (1988), and Mulan (1998). In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, along with three other actors. In his early career, Shigeta often played romantic male lead roles, which were almost nonexistent for an actor of Asian descent during his time, making him a trailblazer in Asian American representation in media. The Goldsea Asian-American Daily magazine listed him as one of the "Most Inspiring Asian-Americans Of All Time". Before his Hollywood career he found success as a pop singer and performer abroad, especially in Japan and Australia.

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Yorktown: A Time to Heal
Admiral Heilachiro Nogura
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.
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive)
A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
더 피플 아이브 슬렙 위드
Charles Yang
성적으로 자유분방한 여자주인공 안젤라는 어느날 관계를 가지는 도중 임신 사실을 알게된다. 갑자기 찾아온 임신으로 처음에는 많이 혼란스러워 하지만 이내 정신을 차리고 아기의 아빠이자 자신의 남편을 찾아 나서게 된다. 그동안 하룻밤을 즐기던 상대를 만나면서 겪었던 감정과 진정한 사랑을 찾는 자신의 모습을 발견하며 새로운 삶을 꿈꾸는 안젤라.. 과연 안젤라는 자신의 진정한 사랑과 뱃속의 아기아빠를 찾을 수 있을까?
Hollywood Chinese
Self
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.
The Slanted Screen
Himself
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.
브라더
Sugimoto
그는 배 다른 형제인 켄을 찾기 위해LA로 향한다. 새로운 신분증을 갖고 홀로 LA에 들어선 야마모토는 말이 통하지 않는 이방인으로서의 새로운 삶에 좌절한다. 야마모토는 마약을 팔고 있는 켄을 가까스로 찾게 되지만 장소만 바뀌었을 뿐 도쿄에서와 똑같은 폭력배 생활을 계속해간다. 켄의 잔챙이 조직을 시카고 최고의 갱으로 키운 야마모토의 세력은 점점 커지고 사업이 번창하며 돈이 흘러들어 온다. 하지만 이내 야마모토는 젊은 일본인 갱 두목인 시라세와 대면하게 된다. 마피아 세계에서 시라세와 세력을 규합하지 않는다면 결론은 전쟁 뿐인데...
Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
Narrator
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.
뮬란
General Li (voice)
파씨 가문의 말썽꾸러기 외동딸 뮬란은 선머슴 같은 성격에 강한 자아를 가지고 있어, 가문의 명예를 걸고 중매쟁이를 만나러 가서도 거듭되는 실수로 퇴짜를 맞게 된다. 뮬란은 나름대로는 부모님과 가문의 자랑이 되려고 노력하지만 그것이 그녀에게는 쉬운 일은 아니다. 한편, 훈족이 국경을 침략하자 황제는 가문에 한 사람씩 전쟁터로 나가라는 징집 명령을 내린다. 파씨 가문 역시 징집 명령을 받게 되고, 충성심이 강한 아버지는 전쟁에 나갈 준비를 한다. 그러나 뮬란은 지병이 있는 아버지가 전쟁에 나가도록 할 순 없다고 결심하고, 마침내 아버지 대신 갑옷을 입고 전쟁터로 향하게 된다.
드라이브
Mr. Lau
홍콩의 정보 요원인 토비(Toby Wong: 마크 다카스코스 분). 그는 가슴 속에 바이오 엔진을 장착, 몸동작과 신경을 두배 이상으로 올릴 수 있는 살인 무기로 훈련 받았다. 그러나 정부의 계략으로 사랑하는 여인마저 죽음을 당하자 추적자들을 따돌리기 위해 미국으로 건너온다. 그가 맨 처음 들른 곳은 허름한 술집. 그곳에서 3류 작곡가인 윌리(Malik Brody: 카딤 하디슨 분)를 만난 그는 뒤쫓아 온 추적자 메디슨(Vic Madison: 존 파이퍼-페구슨 분)을 피해 월리를 인질로 하여 다시 도주를 시작한다. 토비는 윌리에게 자신의 처지를 설명해 주지만 생전 처음으로 총격전을 눈앞에서 지켜본 윌리는 정신을 못차리며 도망갈 궁리만 한다. 자신의 몸속에 있는 바이오 엔진을 칼테크사에 팔기로 한 토비는 그들을 만나기 위해 방향을 LA로 돌린라. 낭자한 피의 살인극이 계속되자 윌리는 토비를 공항에 내려주고 재빨리 공포의 시간에서 벗어나고자 한다. 그러나 토비의 뒤를 쫓는 일당들을 발견한 그는 툴툴거리며 토비를 구해낸다. 어쩔 수 없이 토비를 구해주기는 했으나 자신이 한 행동에 화를 내는 윌리. 그 모습을 본 토비는 자신과 함께 LA로 가자며 금액의 반을 주겠다고 설득하는데...
Space Marines
Ambassador Nakamura
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.
Cage II: The Arena of Death
Tin Lum Yin
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!
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
Det. Whoo
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.
China Cry: A True Story
Dr. Sung
Drama set in the 1950s, based on a true story, about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become part of Mao Tze Tung's "new society", but soon becomes disenchanted by the economic misery the changes bring to her family. Before long, the authorities become aware of Neng Yee's feelings and she is taken to a labour camp, overseen by the sadistic Colonel Cheng.
Cage
Tin Lum Yin
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.
Slaying the Dragon
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.
다이 하드
Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
뉴욕 경찰관 존 맥클레인(브루스 윌리스)은 떨어져 사는 아내 홀리 (보니 델리아)를 만나기 위해 LA의 나카도미 빌딩으로 찾아간다. 그러나 파티가 한창 무르익을 무렵, 한스 그루버(알란 릭맨)가 이끄는 일단의 테러리스트들이 침입, 사장을 비롯한 파티 참석자 30여 명을 인질로 삼고 건물 금고에 소장하고 있는 돈과 보물을 손에 넣으려 한다. 최첨단 하이테크에 의해 관리되던 34층짜리 나카토미 빌딩은 통채로 테러리스트들의 수중으로 넘어가 폐쇄되고 고층 빌딩은 살벌한 생존 게임의 전쟁터로 변해가는데...
The Renegades
Jimmy Lee
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.
Tomorrow's Child
Donald Shibura
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.
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Field Marshal Abehata
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.
Samurai
Takeo Chisato
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.
미드웨이
Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
영화는 미군의 두리틀 공습으로 시작된다. 일본의 진주만 공격이 있은 지 6개월 후인 1942년 6월. 미드웨이 대 해전이 발발했다. 일본 해군의 미드웨이 침공작전을 알아내 미 해군은 전격적인 대비를 펼치지만, 목숨을 바치며 항고모함에 달려드는 일본 해군비행단의 공격앞에 미군은 큰 피해를 입는데.
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
David Lao
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.
Matt Helm
Tom McCauley
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.
암흑가의 결투
Goro
일본에는 350년이라는 역사를 가지고 있으면서도 드러나지 않는 세계가 있다. 신비한 의식과 칼이 지배하는 세계. 일부 무사도로 통하면서도 상당히 두려운 세계. 야쿠자라고 불리는 세계이다. 이 세계에 싸움을 각오하고 진입한 미국인이 있다. 그 이름하여 해리 킬머. 어느날 친구인 타나가 일본의 야쿠자 동조직과의 무기 판매 약속을 지키지 않아 딸을 유괴당하고 길머에게 중계를 의뢰해 온다. 그러나 자신이 살아 남기 위해서는 의리를 중요시 하는 일본인의 심리를 이해하지 않으면 안 된다.
The Questor Tapes
Dr. Chen
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who's now under suspect of having stolen the android.
잃어버린 지평선
Brother To-Lenn
전쟁에 휩싸인 세상을 등지고 히말라야 깊은 산속에 자리 잡은 유토피아 '샹그라아'에 대한 이야기
The Young Lawyers
Lee Ahn
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.
Operation Heartbeat
Chief Resident
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.
Escape to Mindanao
Lt. Takahashi
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.
Manila, Open City
Captain Murakami
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.
Nobody's Perfect
Diver Toshi O'Hara
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: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
George Ti Ming
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.
Death Walks in Laredo
Lester Koto
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
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Danny Kohana
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
Carol for Another Christmas
Japanese Doctor
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.
플라워 드럼 송
Wang Ta
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.
Bridge to the Sun
Hidenari Terasaki
Tells the true story of Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When war breaks out they find animosity and trouble from both sides.
Cry for Happy
Harue
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Walk Like a Dragon
Cheng Lu
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.
진홍색 기모노
Detective Joe Kojaku
A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.