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: 28
Box Office Since 2001: $16.4k
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2010 27% The People I've Slept With
  • Charles Yang
$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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2001 Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
  • Actor
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2000 47% Brother
  • Susimoto
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1998 Drive
  • Actor
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1998 86% Mulan
  • General Li
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1996 Space Marines
  • Actor
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1994 Blood for Blood
  • Actor
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1994 Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
  • 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 50% 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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1969 Operation Heartbeat
  • Actor
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1966 Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  • Danny Kohana
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1964 Carol for Another Christmas
  • Japanese Doctor
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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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Tre Pistole Contro Cesare
  • Actor
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Quotes from James Shigeta's Characters

    1. Takagi: You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?
    2. Hans Gruber: Who said we were terrorists?
    From Die Hard. Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
    1. Takagi: What kind of terrorists are you?
    2. Hans Gruber: Mr.Takagi, who ever said we were terrorists?
    From Die Hard. Submitted by Jack P (13 months ago)
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