James Shigeta
Acting
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.
Beam Me Up, Sulu
Self
Yorktown: A Time to Heal
Admiral Heilachiro Nogura
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive footage)
The People I've Slept With
Charles Yang
Hollywood Chinese
Self
The Slanted Screen
Himself
Brother
Sugimoto
Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
Narrator
Mulan
General Li (voice)
Drive
Mr. Lau
Space Marines
Ambassador Nakamura
Midnight Man
Mao Mak
Cage II: The Arena of Death
Tin Lum Yin
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
Det. Whoo
China Cry
Dr. Sung
Home from the Eastern Sea
Narrator
Cage
Tin Lum Yin
Slaying the Dragon
Die Hard
Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
The Renegades
Jimmy Lee
Tomorrow's Child
Donald Shibura
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Field Marshal Abehata
Samurai
Takeo Chisato
Midway
Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
David Lao
Matt Helm
Tom McCauley
The Yakuza
Goro
The Questor Tapes
Dr. Chen
Lost Horizon
Brother To-Lenn
The Young Lawyers
Lee Ahn
Operation Heartbeat
Chief Resident
Escape to Mindanao
Lt. Takahashi
Manila, Open City
Captain Murakami
Nobody's Perfect
Diver Toshi O'Hara
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
George Ti Ming
Death Walks in Laredo
Lester Koto
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Danny Kohana
Carol for Another Christmas
Japanese Doctor
Flower Drum Song
Wang Ta
Bridge to the Sun
Hidenari Terasaki
Cry for Happy
Suzuki
Walk Like a Dragon
Cheng Lu
The Crimson Kimono
Detective Joe Kojaku