James Shigeta

James Shigeta

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

Смерть : 2014-07-28

История

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.

Профиль

James Shigeta

Фильмы

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.
The People I've Slept With
Charles Yang
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
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.
Азиаты в Голливуде
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.
Брат Якудзы
Sugimoto
После разгрома родного мафиозного клана боевик Аники Ямамото по прозвищу Старший Брат бежит из Японии в Америку. Здесь его встречает чужой, но не менее жестокий мир безжалостной борьбы за власть в преступной среде, в которой Ямамото решительно отвоевывает себе место, следуя древнему кодексу «якудзы».Полагаясь только на свои силы и дорожа верными друзьями, он в одиночку ведет войну с врагами, зная, что в самом конце кровавого пути его ждет триумф или смерть.
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.
Мулан
General Li (voice)
Для великого народа наступили тяжелые времена: на страну напало воинственное племя гуннов. Переодевшись в мужскую одежду, Мулан присоединяется к другим воинам и отправляется в опасный поход к подножию заснеженных гор. Ее сопровождает забавный дракончик Мушу, который больше похож на маленькую собачку, чем на мифическое чудовище.Пытаясь скрыть тайну, они попадают в забавные ситуации и не подозревают, что их секрет вот — вот раскроется!…
Драйв
Mr. Lau
Сан-Франциско. Недалекое будущее. Грузовое судно возвращается из Гонконга с загадочным пассажиром по имени Тоби Уонг. Он сбежал от подпольной корпорации Леунга в поисках свободы на Западе. Однако Тоби попадает в лапы банды хладнокровного Вика Мэдисона. Вырвавшись из банды Мэдисона, он берет в заложники пьяницу Малика Броунди и едет в Лос-Анджелес. В дороге они становятся приятелями, и Тоби даже обучает Малика боевым искусствам. Однажды Малик узнает, что у Тоби имплантирован биомодуль, дающий ему силу и скорость. Это сделал мистер Лау, глава корпорации Леунг, который хочет вернуть беглеца во что бы то ни стало. Сбежавшую парочку преследует и банда Вика Мэдисона и новая жертва мистер Лау с более совершенным биомодулем…
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.
Клетка 2
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.
Клетка
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.
Крепкий орешек
Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
В суперсовременном небоскрёбе Лос-Анджелеса полицейский Джон Макклейн ведёт смертельную схватку с людьми некоего Ганса Грубера, под видом политических террористов взявших в заложники два десятка человек, включая и Холли Дженаро, благоверную Джона. Началось всё с того, что парень прилетел в город к жене, оказался на рождественском приёме, а вылилось — в настоящую войну, в которой он одерживает победу лишь неимоверными усилиями.
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.
Мидуэй
Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
Вторая Мировая война. Крупнейшее сражение войск США и Японии у атолла Мидуэй.
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.
Якудза
Goro
Якудза — это мафия, родившаяся 350 лет назад в Японии, стране, где восходит солнце. О якудзе известно только то, что проникший в ее тайны — обречен. На след якудза вышел американский сыщик, занимающийся делом о похищении дочери миллионера…
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.
Потерянный горизонт
Brother To-Lenn
В 1935 году во время восстания в Китае самолет с пятью англичанами и американцами на борту совершил вынужденную посадку в глухих горах Тибета, там, где еще не ступала нога цивилизованного человека. Бедняги уже готовы были распроститься с жизнью, как вдруг к ним пришло спасение в виде странных буддийских монахов, глава которых, к их удивлению, говорил на английском. Он приводит их в сказочную страну Шангри-Ла, ранее никому не известную. В этой идеальной стране здоровье, мир и долголетие правят людьми в отличие от всего остального, цивилизованного мира. Основной принцип их «идеологии» - отказ от излишеств...
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.
Смерть приходит в Ларидо
Lester Koto
Американец Уитти, японец Лестер и француз Этьен отправляются на поиски золотой жилы. Прибыв на место, они обнаруживают, что все они сыновья хозяина земельного участка, где находиться золотой рудник, некоего Лэнгдона, ныне покойного. Лэнгдон написал письмо, которое Стэнфорд, работавший на него старик пьяница, должен был отправить его троим сыновьям, чтобы сообщить им о наследстве, но тем временем вся земля Лэнгдона перешла в руки экстравагантного местного деспота с манией величия, который живет как римский император и называет себя Юлием Цезарем Фуллером.
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.
Песня цветочного барабана
Wang Ta
Молодая китаянка Мэй Ли вместе со своим отцом нелегально приезжает в Сан-Франциско, чтобы здесь выйти замуж за владельца ночного клуба Сэмми Фонга, который оказывается совершенно не готов к подобному сюрпризу. Дело в том, что мать Сэмми, мадам Фонг, выбирала невесту для своего сына по фотографиям в брачном агентстве, и её прибытие ожидалось не раньше, чем через пять лет. У Сэмми уже есть девушка, певица и танцовщица Линда Ло, выступающая в его заведении, и поэтому он решает познакомить Мэй Ли с юношей из весьма уважаемого китайского семейства Вангом Та в надежде на то, что между молодыми людьми возникнут взаимные чувства.
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.
Кровавое кимоно
Detective Joe Kojaku
Детективы-напарники Чарли и Джо пытаются раскрыть запутанное дело об убийстве стриптизерши. Расследование приводит их в японские кварталы Лос-Анджелеса. Но, когда история с убийством начинает проясняться, оказывается, что оба сыщика влюблены в главную свидетельницу.