James Shigeta
- Profesión
- Actuación
- Nacimiento
- 17 de junio de 1929
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
- Fallecimiento
- 28 de julio de 2014
Biografía
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.
Películas con James Shigeta
- Jungla de cristal 1988 · ★ 7.8
- Mulán 1998 · ★ 7.9
- Brother 2000 · ★ 7.1
- La batalla de Midway 1976 · ★ 6.6
- Yakuza 1974 · ★ 7.1
- Fuerza máxima 1997 · ★ 6.2
- El kimono rojo 1959 · ★ 6.6
- Paraíso hawaiano 1966 · ★ 5.1
- Horizontes perdidos 1973 · ★ 5.4
- Flower Drum Song 1961 · ★ 6.3
- Canción para otra Navidad 1964 · ★ 5.9
- Proyecto Androide 1974 · ★ 5.9
- The People I've Slept With 2010 · ★ 4.4
- Puente al sol 1961 · ★ 6.9
- Space Marines 1996 · ★ 3.5
- Cage 1989 · ★ 3.9
- Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die 1994 · ★ 6.8
- Rivales de sangre 1995 · ★ 5.1
- Cage II 1994 · ★ 3.5
- La casa de las tres geishas 1961 · ★ 5.4
- China Cry 1990 · ★ 6.4
- Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood 2019 · ★ 5.7
- The Renegades 1982 · ★ 6.6
- 3 pistole contro Cesare 1967 · ★ 7.2
- Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb 1980 · ★ 6.0
- The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk 1967 · ★ 6.2
- Tomorrow's Child 1982 · ★ 4.3
- Nobody's Perfect 1968 · ★ 6.3
- Manila, Open City 1968 · ★ 8.5
- Walk Like a Dragon 1960 · ★ 6.3
- Beam Me Up, Sulu 2025 · ★ 6.0
- Escape to Mindanao 1968 · ★ 9.0
- The Slanted Screen 2006 · ★ 10.0
- Operation Heartbeat 1969 · ★ 8.0
- The Young Lawyers 1969 · ★ 10.0
- Slaying the Dragon 1988 · ★ 8.0
- Samurai 1979 · ★ 9.0
- The Killer Who Wouldn't Die 1976 · ★ 7.0
- Home from the Eastern Sea 1990
- Matt Helm 1975