Chris Tashima
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."
Fotos
Películas (39)
Kodama
2023 · Hiro
No No Girl
2022 · Uncle Bob
Searching for Anna May Wong
2020 · Self
Surviving Theater 9
2018 · Professor Cambro
Go for Broke
2017 · Shigeo Yoshida
Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014 · Papa Nakaji
Real Playing Game
2013 · Mr. Chan
Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012 · Sei Fujii
Model Minority
2012 · Ken Tanaka
Half Kenneth
2009 · Masamichi
Americanese
2006 · Raymond Ding
Day of Independence
2003 · The Umpire, Co-Writer, Director
Barrier Device
2002 · Actor in Diamond Jeweler Commercial (uncredited)
Lani Loa: The Passage
1998 · Bong
Visas and Virtue
1997 · Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara, Director, Co-Writer
Strawberry Fields
1997 · Mark
Requiem
1995 · Philip
The Perfect Weapon
1991 · Bag Man
Liberace: Behind the Music
1988 · Carpenter
Barry Manilow: Big Fun on Swing Street
1988 · Carpenter
Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · Carpenter
Overkill
1987 · Nagumo Jr.
Near Dark
1987 · Carpenter
Lethal Weapon
1987 · Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
Night of the Creeps
1986 · Extra (uncredited)
The Karate Kid Part II
1986 · The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
Chisai Samurai
1986 · Director
Savage Dawn
1985 · Extra (uncredited)
Once Bitten
1985 · Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)
Generation
1985 · Gang Extra (uncredited)
Killzone
1985 · Crawford's Men
Moving Violations
1985 · Parade Extra (uncredited)
The Sure Thing
1985 · Frat Guy at Punch Bowl (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet
1985 · (uncredited)
Not My Kid
1985 · Student (uncredited)
The Hour of the Ox
1985 · James
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984 · Club Patron (uncredited)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)
Investigation of Fear
1979 · Editor, Cinematography, Director, Writer, Producer
Series (12)
The Shield
2002 · Chris Yamamoto (scenes deleted)
Independent Lens
1999 · Director, Writer
Vital Signs
1997 · Surgeon
Unsolved Mysteries
1988 · Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
Fun House
1988 · Carpenter
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1986 · Carpenter
Sara
1985 · Concert Goer (uncredited)
The Mechanical Universe
1985 · Freefall Rider (segment "Magic Mountain")
1st & Ten
1984 · Reporter (uncredited)
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Camper's Dad (uncredited)
St. Elsewhere
1982 · Technician (uncredited)
The Fall Guy
1981 · Bar Patron (uncredited)