1960-03-24 ( 65 years old ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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."
Movies
Kodama
2023-03-11
No No Girl
2022-09-09
Surviving Theater 9
2018-04-22
Go for Broke
2017-10-14
Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014-09-14
Real Playing Game
2013-08-28
Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012-09-14
Model Minority
2012-05-11
Half Kenneth
2009-04-18
Americanese
2006-03-15
Day of Independence
2003-09-26
Barrier Device
2002-05-11
Lani Loa: The Passage
1998-09-25
Visas and Virtue
1997-05-01
Strawberry Fields
1997-03-09
Requiem
1995-11-07
The Perfect Weapon
1991-03-15
Overkill
1987-12-16
Lethal Weapon
1987-03-06
Night of the Creeps
1986-08-21
The Karate Kid Part II
1986-06-18
Savage Dawn
1986-05-22
Once Bitten
1985-11-15
Generation
1985-05-24
Killzone
1985-05-01
Moving Violations
1985-04-19
The Sure Thing
1985-03-01
Scandal Sheet
1985-01-21
Not My Kid
1985-01-15
The Hour of the Ox
1985-01-01
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984-12-21
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984-11-09
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