Chris Tashima
Known for Acting · 42 credits
- Born
- 1960-03-24 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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."
Known For
The Shield
2002
as Chris Yamamoto (scenes deleted)
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Technician (uncredited)
Highway to Heaven
1984
as Camper's Dad (uncredited)
The Fall Guy
1981
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
as Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)
Unsolved Mysteries
1988
as Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
TV Shows (9)
The Shield
2002
as Chris Yamamoto (scenes deleted)
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Technician (uncredited)
Highway to Heaven
1984
as Camper's Dad (uncredited)
The Fall Guy
1981
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
Unsolved Mysteries
1988
as Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
1st & Ten
1984
as Reporter (uncredited)
Sara
1985
as Concert Goer (uncredited)
The Mechanical Universe
1985
as Freefall Rider (segment "Magic Mountain")
Vital Signs
1997
as Surgeon
Movies (33)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
as Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)
Lethal Weapon
1987
as Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
The Karate Kid Part II
1986
as The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
Once Bitten
1985
as Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)
The Perfect Weapon
1991
as Bag Man
The Sure Thing
1985
as Frat Guy at Punch Bowl (uncredited)
Night of the Creeps
1986
as Extra (uncredited)
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984
as Club Patron (uncredited)
Moving Violations
1985
as Parade Extra (uncredited)
Savage Dawn
1985
as Extra (uncredited)
Model Minority
2012
as Ken Tanaka
Scandal Sheet
1985
as (uncredited)
Not My Kid
1985
as Student (uncredited)
Americanese
2006
as Raymond Ding
Generation
1985
as Gang Extra (uncredited)
Requiem
1995
as Philip
Real Playing Game
2013
as Mr. Chan
Barrier Device
2002
as Actor in Diamond Jeweler Commercial (uncredited)
Surviving Theater 9
2018
as Professor Cambro
Lani Loa: The Passage
1998
as Bong
Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014
as Papa Nakaji
Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012
as Sei Fujii
Kodama
2023
as Hiro
Strawberry Fields
1997
as Mark
Half Kenneth
2009
as Masamichi
Day of Independence
2003
as The Umpire
Overkill
1987
as Nagumo Jr.
Visas and Virtue
1997
as Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara
Killzone
1985
as Crawford's Men
Go for Broke
2017
as Shigeo Yoshida
No No Girl
2022
as Uncle Bob
Searching for Anna May Wong
2020
as Self
The Hour of the Ox
1985
as James
About 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 portr… With 42 credits spanning from 1981 to 2023, Chris Tashima has appeared in 33 films and 9 TV shows.
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- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — as Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)
- Lethal Weapon (1987) — as Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
- The Karate Kid Part II (1986) — as The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
- Once Bitten (1985) — as Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)
- The Perfect Weapon (1991) — as Bag Man
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