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The People I've Slept With

as Charles Yang

2009
The Slanted Screen

as Himself

2006
Brother

as Sugimoto

2001
Cage II: The Arena of Death

as Tin Lum Yin

1994
Die Hard

as Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi

1988
The Renegades

as Jimmy Lee

1982
The Yakuza

as Goro

1975
The Questor Tapes

as Dr. Chen

1974
Lost Horizon

as Brother To-Lenn

1973
Manila, Open City

as Captain Murakami

1968
Paradise, Hawaiian Style

as Danny Kohana

1966
Carol for Another Christmas

as Japanese Doctor

1964
Flower Drum Song

as Wang Ta

1961
Bridge to the Sun

as Hidenari Terasaki

1961
Cry for Happy

as Harue

1961
Walk Like a Dragon

as Cheng Lu

1960
The Crimson Kimono

as Detective Joe Kojaku

1959
James Shigeta James Shigeta

Birthday

1929-06-17

Place of Birth

Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

Biography

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.
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