Chris Tashima

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-03-24 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Chris Tashima

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 prod...

Acting

2023

Kodama

as Hiro

1987

Overkill

as Nagumo Jr.

2013

2018

Surviving Theater 9

as Professor Cambro

2012

Lil Tokyo Reporter

as Sei Fujii

2012

Model Minority

as Ken Tanaka

2022

No No Girl

as Uncle Bob

1997

Visas and Virtue

as Chiune 'Sempo' Sugihara

2014

2003

Day of Independence

as The Umpire

2006

Americanese

as Raymond Ding

2009

Half Kenneth

as Masamichi

1991

1985

Killzone

as Crawford's Men

2017

Go for Broke

as Shigeo Yoshida

1986

The Karate Kid Part II

as The Rockabilly Club Dancer (uncredited)

1987

Lethal Weapon

as Fire Rescue Attendant (uncredited)

1995

Requiem

as Philip

1985

1985

Scandal Sheet

as (uncredited)

1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

as Boy in Nancy's English Class (uncredited)

1984

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

as Club Patron (uncredited)

1985

The Sure Thing

as Frat Guy at Punch Bowl (uncredited)

1985

Moving Violations

as Parade Extra (uncredited)

1985

Generation

as Gang Extra (uncredited)

1985

Once Bitten

as Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)

1985

Savage Dawn

as Extra (uncredited)

1986

Night of the Creeps

as Extra (uncredited)

2002

Barrier Device

as Actor in Diamond Jeweler Commercial (uncredited)

1985

Not My Kid

as Student (uncredited)

Production

1997

Visas and Virtue

as Director

2003

2003

1997

Visas and Virtue

as Co-Writer

1987

Near Dark

as Carpenter

1979

1979

1979

Investigation of Fear

as Cinematography

1987

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