Chris Tashima
- Recitazione
- 24 marzo 1960 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biografia
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."
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Filmografia
- Kodama · Hiro
- No No Girl · Uncle Bob
- Searching for Anna May Wong · In persona
- Surviving Theater 9 · Professor Cambro
- Go for Broke · Shigeo Yoshida
- Under the Blood-Red Sun · Papa Nakaji
- Real Playing Game · Mr. Chan
- Lil Tokyo Reporter · Sei Fujii
- Model Minority · Ken Tanaka
- Half Kenneth · Masamichi
- Americanese · Raymond Ding
- Day of Independence · The Umpire, Regia
- Barrier Device · Actor in Diamond Jeweler Commercial (uncredited)
- The Shield · Chris Yamamoto (scenes deleted)
- Independent Lens · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Lani Loa: The Passage · Bong
- Visas and Virtue · Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara, Regia
- Strawberry Fields · Mark
- Vital Signs · Surgeon
- Requiem · Philip
- Arma perfetta · Bag Man
- Liberace: Behind the Music · Carpenter
- Unsolved Mysteries · Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
- Fun House · Carpenter
- Barry Manilow: Big Fun on Swing Street · Carpenter
- Good Morning, Vietnam · Carpenter
- Overkill · Nagumo Jr.
- Il buio si avvicina · Carpenter
- Arma letale · Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
- Pee-wee's Playhouse · Carpenter
- Dimensione terrore · Extra (uncredited)
- Karate Kid II - La storia continua... · The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
- Chisai Samurai · Regia
- Savage Dawn · Extra (uncredited)
- Se ti mordo... sei mio · Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)
- Generation · Gang Extra (uncredited)
- Killzone · Crawford's Men
- Scuola guida · Parade Extra (uncredited)
- Sacco a pelo a tre piazze · Frat Guy at Punch Bowl (uncredited)
- Sara · Concert Goer (uncredited)
- Scandal Sheet · (uncredited)
- Not My Kid · Student (uncredited)
- The Hour of the Ox · James
- The Mechanical Universe · Freefall Rider (segment "Magic Mountain")
- Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo · Club Patron (uncredited)
- Scuola di football · Reporter (uncredited)
- Nightmare - Dal profondo della notte · Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)
- Autostop per il cielo · Camper's Dad (uncredited)
- A cuore aperto · Technician (uncredited)
- Professione pericolo · Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Investigation of Fear · Regia, Sceneggiatura