Chris Tashima
- Profesión
- Actuación
- Nacimiento
- 24 de marzo de 1960
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biografía
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."
Películas con Chris Tashima
- Pesadilla en Elm Street 1984 · ★ 7.4
- Arma letal 1987 · ★ 7.3
- Karate Kid II, la historia continúa 1986 · ★ 6.4
- El terror llama a su puerta 1986 · ★ 6.8
- Mordiscos peligrosos 1985 · ★ 5.8
- Juegos de amor en la universidad 1985 · ★ 6.5
- Arma perfecta 1991 · ★ 6.4
- Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo 1984 · ★ 5.4
- Locademia de conductores 1985 · ★ 5.4
- Amanecer salvaje 1985 · ★ 4.5
- Real Playing Game 2013 · ★ 4.0
- Model Minority 2012 · ★ 4.6
- Visas and Virtue 1997 · ★ 6.6
- Under the Blood-Red Sun 2014 · ★ 6.2
- Killzone 1985 · ★ 4.5
- Overkill 1987 · ★ 4.5
- Scandal Sheet 1985 · ★ 5.8
- Kodama 2023 · ★ 4.8
- Strawberry Fields 1997 · ★ 6.5
- Barrier Device 2002 · ★ 5.8
- Not My Kid 1985 · ★ 7.5
- Americanese 2006 · ★ 4.3
- Generation 1985 · ★ 5.3
- Lani Loa: The Passage 1998 · ★ 6.0
- Day of Independence 2003 · ★ 10.0
- Go for Broke 2017 · ★ 6.0
- Requiem 1995 · ★ 7.0
- Surviving Theater 9 2018
- Lil Tokyo Reporter 2012
- No No Girl 2022
- Half Kenneth 2009
- The Hour of the Ox 1985
- Searching for Anna May Wong 2020
Películas dirigidas por Chris Tashima
- Visas and Virtue 1997 · ★ 6.6
- Day of Independence 2003 · ★ 10.0
- Investigation of Fear 1979
- Chisai Samurai 1986