Chris Tashima
Рождение : 1960-03-24, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
История
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
В не слишком далеком будущем, престарелый мультимиллионер Стив Баттьер, который, к тому же, неизлечимо болен, принял предложение компании RPG, которое состояло в том, что группа клиентов получает возможность «обрести молодое тело». В течении 10 часов 10 миллионеров со всего мира окажутся снова молодыми и здоровыми. Но у этой «игры» есть вполне реальные правила - каждый час кто-то из них может умереть. В возрасте 23 лет, Стив готов пойти на все, чтобы сохранить эту вечную молодость...
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
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
Director
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
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
Молодого Джеффа отец отдает с школу Кенпо в надежде, что тот научится самодисциплине. Годами позже наставника Джеффа мастера Ким начинает преследовать корейская мафия. Джефф пытается помочь, но наставник погибает от рук неизвестного наемного убийцы. Полный желания отомстить, Джефф начинает кровавую войну с корейской мафией, применяя все свои знания боевых искусств.
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
Молодой парень знакомится с очаровательной девушкой, которая при ближайшем рассмотрении оказывается вампиршей. «Вампиризм» — болезнь заразная, и после страстного поцелуя парень постепенно тоже должен стать вампиром. Девушка же, как оказалось, входит в целый вампирный клан, который разъезжает на стареньком фургончике по дорогам Техаса. Днем вампиры отсыпаются в мотелях, а по ночам выходят на «тихую охоту». Полиция против них бессильна, т. к. пуля их не берет: они боятся лишь солнечного света. Вампиры готовы принять парня в свой клан, но для этого он должен сам убить свою первую жертву…
Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
Обаяние этого вечного приключенческого сюжета о паре полицейских — в великолепной игре Гибсона и Гловера.
Первый — слегка чокнутый смельчак Риггз, которому из-за его легендарного вьетнамского прошлого и не менее легендарного настоящего дали уважительную кличку «смертельное оружие». Его чернокожий напарник Мертаф — человек куда более земной, обременённый семьёй и предрассудками.
The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
Господин Мияги, учитель карате Дэниэла, получает печальное известие о том, что его отец находится при смерти. Быстро собравшись, он покидает Лос-Анджелес и отправляется в Японию. Дэниэл решает сопровождать его в этом путешествии. На Окинаве Мияги неожиданно встречает своего старого врага и давнюю возлюбленную, а Дэниэл обретает новую любовь, а заодно — и нового врага.
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)
Старшеклассников одной из школ Спрингвуда, преследует один и тот же кошмарный сон в котором за ними гонится и кромсает на куски изуродованный человек в шляпе и с ножами на своей перчатке. И тот, кого убили во сне — умирает в реальности… Оказывается много лет назад, герой сна — Фредди Крюгер был маньяком, совершившим несколько зверских убийств детей. Их родители, не дожидаясь суда, линчевали Фредди, спалив заживо в котельной. И теперь Фредди пришел отомстить…
Hiro
An fantasy/action short about a SWAT Samurai team entering a spirit world to rescue a lost captain.
