James Shigeta
James Saburo Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor, singer, and musician of Japanese descent. He was noted for his roles in The Crimson Kimono (1959), Walk Like a Dragon (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Bridge to the Sun (1961), Die Hard (1988), and Mulan (1998). In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, along with three other actors. In his early career, Shigeta often played romantic male lead roles, which were almost nonexistent for an actor of Asian descent during his time, making him a trailblazer in Asian American representation in media. The Goldsea Asian-American Daily magazine listed him as one of the "Most Inspiring Asian-Americans Of All Time". Before his Hollywood career he found success as a pop singer and performer abroad, especially in Japan and Australia.
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Mulan
as General Li (voice)To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place...
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Midway
as Vice Admiral Chuichi NagumoThis war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became...
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Brother
as SugimotoA Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles,...
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The Yakuza
as GoroAmerican private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from...
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Drive
as Mr. LauA prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked...
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
as Danny KohanaBlacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards...
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Lost Horizon
as Brother To-LennWhile escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are...
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Flower Drum Song
as Wang TaA young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying...
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Bridge to the Sun
as Hidenari TerasakiTells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese...
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Carol for Another Christmas
as Japanese DoctorDaniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of...
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Cry for Happy
as HarueArmy photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
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Cage
as Tin Lum YinA GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury...
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The People I've Slept With
as Charles YangThe People I've Slept With - a promiscuous woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy...
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The Crimson Kimono
as Detective Joe KojakuA Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
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Space Marines
as Ambassador NakamuraSpace pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter...
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Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
as Det. WhooThe Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the...
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Samurai
as Takeo ChisatoLee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and...
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
as Field Marshal AbehataThe story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the...
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Cage II: The Arena of Death
as Tin Lum YinAfter being tricked into thinking his best friend, and caretaker is dead, Vietnam Vet, and...
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Tomorrow's Child
as Donald ShiburaThe wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by...
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China Cry
as Dr. SungYoung Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become...
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Walk Like a Dragon
as Cheng LuCalifornia, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of...
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Death Walks in Laredo
as Lester KotoWhitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are...
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Midnight Man
as Mao MakWhen the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing...
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The Questor Tapes
as Dr. ChenProject Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android...
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Operation Heartbeat
as Chief ResidentLawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart...
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Nobody's Perfect
as Diver Toshi O'HaraThis military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The...
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Yorktown: A Time to Heal
as Admiral Heilachiro NoguraHaving escaped capture by the Klingons, a damaged Starfleet reconnaissance probe crashes...
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Escape to Mindanao
as Lt. TakahashiTwo American POWs break out of a Japanese jungle prison camp with their captors' secret decoding...
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The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
as David LaoAfter his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts...
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Hollywood Chinese
as SelfHollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese...
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The Slanted Screen
as HimselfFrom silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen...
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The Young Lawyers
as Lee AhnAttorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law...
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Matt Helm
as Tom McCauleyIn this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is...
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Manila, Open City
as Captain MurakamiWar drama set in the closing stages of World War Two. As Allied Forces are nearing the defeat of...
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The Renegades
as Jimmy LeeIn this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers...
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Slaying the Dragon
as uncreditedA highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood....
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Babylon 5
as Taro IsogiBabylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth...
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Perry Mason
as Ward ToyamaThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Magnum, P.I.
as Dr. Richard EnokaA private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a...
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Beverly Hills, 90210
as uncreditedFollow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of...
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Murder, She Wrote
as John SukaharaAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
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Murder, She Wrote
as Luc LiAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
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Renegade
as uncreditedFramed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while...
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Renegade
as Mr. OtaFramed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while...
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Ironside
as uncreditedWhen an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...
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The Rockford Files
as Clement ChinCranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...
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Mission: Impossible
as ShikiMission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...
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Ben Casey
as uncreditedBen Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...
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Little House on the Prairie
as uncreditedLittle House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...
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Airwolf
as Colonel Tranh Van ZungAs part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot...
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Burke's Law
as Sidney YingBurke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...
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The Outer Limits
as Maj. JongThe Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...
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The Outer Limits
as AIO Captain NewaThe Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...
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Hawaii Five-O
as Joseph MatsukinoHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
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Police Woman
as uncreditedSergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los...
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
as uncreditedIn a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic...
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Simon & Simon
as uncreditedSimon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...
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Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience MemberAn annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...
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Emergency!
as uncreditedThe crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...
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Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Roy ShigeraThe story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...
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seaQuest DSV
as Vietnamese President ChiIn the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans...
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T. J. Hooker
as Chow Duc KhanSergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who...
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Medical Center
as Dr. OsakaMedical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced...
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Naked City
as James KamNaked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....
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Matt Houston
as uncreditedMatt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...
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The Hitchhiker
as NishiA young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes...
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The Streets of San Francisco
as uncreditedTwo police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...
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The Streets of San Francisco
as ProsecutorTwo police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
as uncreditedThe Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC....
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Jake and the Fatman
as Mr. Koso NakasoneJake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L....
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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as SelfThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on...
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Ellery Queen
as Stephen YangEllery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character...
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The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
as Inspector Mantjur (voice)The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.
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The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
as Dr. Yamashiro (voice)The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.
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Threat Matrix
as Kang Sok-JooAgainst the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite...
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The Lieutenant
as uncreditedThe Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired...
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S.W.A.T.
as uncreditedS.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And...
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Masquerade
as MakkoMasquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the...
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The Bing Crosby Show
as uncreditedThe Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film...
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Once an Eagle
as Lin Tso-HanOnce An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels...
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Kung Fu
as uncreditedThe adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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