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)
Unsolved Mysteries
1988
as Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
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)
TV Shows (9)
The Shield
2002
as Chris Yamamoto (scenes deleted)
Unsolved Mysteries
1988
as Stunt Coordinator (segment "Brandon Lee")
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Technician (uncredited)
Highway to Heaven
1984
as Camper's Dad (uncredited)
The Fall Guy
1981
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
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)
Kodama
2023
as Hiro
Lethal Weapon
1987
as Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
The Karate Kid Part II
1986
as The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
Night of the Creeps
1986
as Extra (uncredited)
The Perfect Weapon
1991
as Bag Man
Once Bitten
1985
as Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)
The Sure Thing
1985
as Frat Guy at Punch Bowl (uncredited)
Moving Violations
1985
as Parade Extra (uncredited)
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984
as Club Patron (uncredited)
Searching for Anna May Wong
2020
as Self
Requiem
1995
as Philip
Savage Dawn
1985
as Extra (uncredited)
Overkill
1987
as Nagumo Jr.
Model Minority
2012
as Ken Tanaka
Visas and Virtue
1997
as Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara
Real Playing Game
2013
as Mr. Chan
Not My Kid
1985
as Student (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet
1985
as (uncredited)
Killzone
1985
as Crawford's Men
Lani Loa: The Passage
1998
as Bong
Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014
as Papa Nakaji
Americanese
2006
as Raymond Ding
No No Girl
2022
as Uncle Bob
The Hour of the Ox
1985
as James
Strawberry Fields
1997
as Mark
Barrier Device
2002
as Actor in Diamond Jeweler Commercial (uncredited)
Generation
1985
as Gang Extra (uncredited)
Surviving Theater 9
2018
as Professor Cambro
Day of Independence
2003
as The Umpire
Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012
as Sei Fujii
Half Kenneth
2009
as Masamichi
Go for Broke
2017
as Shigeo Yoshida
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)
- Kodama (2023) — as Hiro
- Lethal Weapon (1987) — as Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)
- The Karate Kid Part II (1986) — as The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)
- Night of the Creeps (1986) — as Extra (uncredited)
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