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James Shigeta

Highest Rated:
100% The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Lowest Rated:
27% The People I've Slept With (2010)
Birthday:
Jun 17, 1933
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Hawaii-born leading man James Shigeta made his first film appearance in 1959. Generally cast as everything but Hawaiian--Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan--Shigeta has alternated between heroes and villains, depending on the requirements of the script (e.g. whether or not the plot is set during…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 27% - 100%
Number of Movies: 25
Box Office Since 2001: $16.4k
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2010 27% The People I've Slept With
  • Actor
$16.4k
2007 100% Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films
  • Actor
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2006 The Slanted Screen
  • Actor
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2006 Slanted Screen: Asian Men In Film & Television
  • Actor
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2002 86% Mulan
  • General Li
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2001 Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
  • Actor
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2000 46% Brother
  • Susimoto
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1998 Drive
  • Actor
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1996 Space Marines
  • Actor
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1995 Blood for Blood
  • Actor
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1994 Cage II (The Arena of Death)
  • Tim Yum Lin
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1991 China Cry
  • Dr. Sung
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1989 Cage
  • Tim Lum Yin
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1988 94% Die Hard
  • Takagi
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1982 Tomorrow's Child
  • Actor
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1980 Enola Gay - The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
  • Field Marshal Abehata
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1976 55% Midway (The Battle of Midway)
  • Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo
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1974 50% The Yakuza
  • Goro
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1973 Lost Horizon
  • Brother To-Lenn
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1966 Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  • Danny Kohana
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1963 Outer Limits - "Nightmare"
  • Actor
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1961 Flower Drum Song
  • Wang Ta
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1960 Walk Like a Dragon
  • Cheng Lu
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1960 Bridge to the Sun (Pont vers le soleil)
  • Hidenari Terasaki
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1959 100% The Crimson Kimono
  • Detective Joe Kojaku
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