Chris Tashima

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."
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1960-03-24
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Movies List of Chris Tashima

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Kodama

2023 Movie
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Overkill

1987 Movie
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Real Playing Game

2013 Movie
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Surviving Theater 9

2018 Movie
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Lil Tokyo Reporter

2012 Movie
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Model Minority

2012 Movie
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No No Girl

2022 Movie
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Visas and Virtue

1997 Movie
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Day of Independence

2003 Movie
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Strawberry Fields

1997 Movie
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The Perfect Weapon

1991 Movie
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Americanese

2006 Movie
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Lani Loa: The Passage

1998 Movie
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Half Kenneth

2009 Movie
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Killzone

1985 Movie
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Go for Broke

2017 Movie
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Lethal Weapon

1987 Movie
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Requiem

1995 Movie
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The Hour of the Ox

1985 Movie