
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 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.…
Filmography

Day of Independence
2003 · 10.0

The Mechanical Universe
1985 · 8.6

Sara
1985 · 8.3

The Shield
2002 · 8.2

Unsolved Mysteries
1988 · 7.7

The Fall Guy
1981 · 7.7

Not My Kid
1985 · 7.5

Highway to Heaven
1984 · 7.4

A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · 7.4

Lethal Weapon
1987 · 7.3

Requiem
1995 · 7.0

Night of the Creeps
1986 · 6.8

Visas and Virtue
1997 · 6.6

The Sure Thing
1985 · 6.5

Strawberry Fields
1997 · 6.5

The Perfect Weapon
1991 · 6.4

The Karate Kid Part II
1986 · 6.4

1st & Ten
1984 · 6.3

Under the Blood-Red Sun
2014 · 6.2
Vital Signs
1997 · 6.0
Lani Loa: The Passage
1998 · 6.0

Go for Broke
2017 · 6.0

Once Bitten
1985 · 5.8

Barrier Device
2002 · 5.8

St. Elsewhere
1982 · 5.7

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984 · 5.4

Moving Violations
1985 · 5.4

Generation
1985 · 5.3

Kodama
2023 · 4.8

Model Minority
2012 · 4.6

Overkill
1987 · 4.5

Savage Dawn
1985 · 4.5

Killzone
1985 · 4.5

Americanese
2006 · 4.3

Real Playing Game
2013 · 4.0

No No Girl
2022 · 0.0

The Hour of the Ox
1985 · 0.0

Surviving Theater 9
2018 · 0.0

Lil Tokyo Reporter
2012 · 0.0

Half Kenneth
2009 · 0.0