James Shigeta
- Atuação
- 17 de junho de 1929 · Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
- 28 de julho de 2014
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Beam Me Up, Sulu · Em pessoa
- Yorktown: A Time to Heal · Admiral Heilachiro Nogura
- Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood · (archive footage)
- The People I've Slept With · Charles Yang
- Hollywood Chinese · Em pessoa
- The Slanted Screen · Em pessoa
- Avatar: A Lenda de Aang · Old Wanderer (Voz)
- Threat Matrix · Kang Sok-Joo
- Brother - A Máfia Japonesa Yakuza em Los Angeles · Sugimoto
- Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century · Narrator
- Mulan · General Li (Voz)
- Drive: Tensão Máxima · Mr. Lau
- As Incríveis Aventuras do Jonny Quest · Inspector Mantjur (Voz), Dr. Yamashiro (Voz)
- Space Marines · Ambassador Nakamura
- O Vingador da Noite · Mao Mak
- Cybill · Mr. Matsuzaki
- A Arena da Morte II · Tin Lum Yin
- Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die · Det. Whoo
- Babylon 5 · Taro Isogi
- SeaQuest: Missão Submarina · Vietnamese President Chi
- O Renegado · Mr. Ota
- Um Clamor na China · Dr. Sung
- Barrados no Baile · Ben Sosna
- Home from the Eastern Sea · Narrator
- A Arena da Morte · Tin Lum Yin
- Slaying the Dragon
- Duro de Matar · Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
- Jake and the Fatman · Mr. Koso Nakasone
- Assassinato Por Escrito · John Sukahara, Luc Li
- Águia de Fogo · Colonel Tranh Van Zung
- Missão Secreta · Makko
- O Carona · Nishi
- Matt Houston · Lin Ha
- The Renegades · Jimmy Lee
- Tomorrow's Child · Donald Shibura
- Carro Comando · Chow Duc Khan
- Simon & Simon
- Magnum · Richard Enoka, Mr. Obotu
- Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb · Field Marshal Abehata
- Samurai · Takeo Chisato
- O Barco do Amor · Bud's Father
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
- Uma Vez Uma Águia · Lin Tso-Han
- A Batalha de Midway · Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
- The Killer Who Wouldn't Die · David Lao
- Ellery Queen · Stephen Yang
- Matt Helm · Tom McCauley
- S.W.A.T.
- Operação Yakuza · Goro
- Police Woman
- Arquivo Confidencial · Clement Chin
- Os Pioneiros · Sam Wing
- The Questor Tapes · Dr. Chen
- Horizonte Perdido · Brother To-Lenn
- Kung Fu · Master Kwan Li, Col. Lin Pei
- San Francisco Urgente · Prosecutor
- Emergency! · Nathan O'Brien
- The Young Lawyers · Lee Ahn
- Medical Center · Dr. Osaka
- Havaí Cinco-0 · Joseph Matsukino
- Operation Heartbeat · Chief Resident
- Escape to Mindanao · Lt. Takahashi
- Manila, Open City · Captain Murakami
- Nobody's Perfect · Diver Toshi O'Hara
- The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk · George Ti Ming
- The chef
- 3 pistole contro Cesare · Lester Koto
- Missão: Impossível · Shiki
- No Paraíso do Havaí · Danny Kohana
- Carol for Another Christmas · Japanese Doctor
- The Bing Crosby Show
- Burke's Law · Sidney Ying
- Quinta Dimensão · Maj. Jong, AIO Captain Newa
- O Tenente
- Flower Drum Song · Wang Ta
- Bridge to the Sun · Hidenari Terasaki
- Ben Casey · Dr. Harvey Lee
- Dr. Kildare · Dr. Roy Shigera
- Kraft Mystery Theatre
- Cry for Happy · Suzuki