Chris Tashima
Acting
Born 1960-03-24
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
51 credits
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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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Filmography
Acting
49 credits
The Shield
St. Elsewhere
Highway to Heaven
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Fall Guy
Unsolved Mysteries
Lethal Weapon
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1st & Ten
The Karate Kid Part II
Near Dark
Kodama
Good Morning, Vietnam
Fun House
The Sure Thing
Once Bitten
Sara
Night of the Creeps
The Perfect Weapon
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Moving Violations
Savage Dawn
The Mechanical Universe
Vital Signs
Requiem
Overkill
Not My Kid
Under the Blood-Red Sun
Scandal Sheet
Barrier Device
Liberace: Behind the Music
Generation
Searching for Anna May Wong
Model Minority
Half Kenneth
Real Playing Game
Day of Independence
Go for Broke
No No Girl
Surviving Theater 9
Americanese
Visas and Virtue
Killzone
Lani Loa: The Passage
Lil Tokyo Reporter
Strawberry Fields
Investigation of Fear
Barry Manilow: Big Fun on Swing Street
The Hour of the Ox
Directing
5 credits
Writing
2 credits
Other credits
1 credit
Producing
1 credit
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