Chris Tashima [45329] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.2421 Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Birthday: 1960-03-24 Age: 65 years Movies: 32 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: 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." Kodama2023-03-11 No No Girl2022-09-09 Surviving Theate2018-04-22 Go for Broke2017-10-14 Under the Blood-2014-09-14 Real Playing Gam2013-08-28 Lil Tokyo Report2012-09-14 Model Minority2012-05-11 Half Kenneth2009-04-18 Americanese2006-03-15 Day of Independe2003-09-26 Barrier Device2002-05-11 Lani Loa: The Pa1998-09-25 Visas and Virtue1997-05-01 Strawberry Field1997-03-09 Requiem1995-11-07 The Perfect Weap1991-03-15 Overkill1987-12-16 Lethal Weapon1987-03-06 Night of the Cre1986-08-21 The Karate Kid P1986-06-18 Once Bitten1985-11-15 Generation1985-05-24 Savage Dawn1985-12-21 Killzone1985-05-01 Moving Violation1985-04-19 The Sure Thing1985-03-01 Scandal Sheet1985-01-21 Not My Kid1985-01-15 The Hour of the 1985-01-01 Breakin' 2: Elec1984-12-21 A Nightmare on E1984-11-09