Highest rated movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Lowest rated movie: Savage Dawn (1985)
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Looking for reviews of Chris Tashima movies? Cinafilm has a total of 3,206 reviews across 13 movies.
Movies starring Chris Tashima have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
A Nightmare on Elm Street - released in 1984 - is Chris Tashima's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 859 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Chris Tashima is Savage Dawn - released in 1985 - with a score of 37% based on 5 reviews.
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" (2006), 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" (2014), from producer Dana Satler Hankins. Other recent roles include real-life educator/activist Shigeo Yoshida in "Go For Broke" (2018), from producer/screenwriter Stacey Hayashi, and the alcoholic father in Lily Mariye's feature directorial debut, "Model Minority" (2012).
Tashima received an Academy Award® for directing the dramatic short film, "Visas and Virtue" (1997), a re-telling of the heroic actions of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara. He also co-wrote the screenplay, adapted from a one-act play by Tim Toyama, and starred as the Humanitarian diplomat Sugihara. He directed, co-wrote and starred, as well, in the WWII Japanese American internment short film, "Day of Independence" (2003), which was nominated for a NATAS Northern California Area Emmy®. These two directorial works from Tashima came out of his own Cedar Grove Productions, an indie entertainment house aiming to "Boldly defy mainstream Hollywood by giving Asian Americans the close-up onscreen." Cedar Grove Productions currently has two feature films in development, with Tashima slated to return to the director's chair on both.
Chris Tashima has acted in films with Tom Atkins, Al Leong, Takayo Fischer and Kevin Thompson.
Chris Tashima has worked with these film directors: Rob Reiner, Richard Donner, Wes Craven and John G. Avildsen.
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