James Shigeta

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.

Murder, She Wrote

overview: An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

character: John Sukahara

original_name: Murder, She Wrote

Magnum, P.I.

overview: A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

character: Richard Enoka

original_name: Magnum, P.I.

Threat Matrix

overview: Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to counter anyone or anything that threatens our nation. The head of this super-secret team is Special Agent John Kilmer. He reports only to the President and has authority to call upon the technical skills, firepower and the specialist agents of the FBI, CIA and NSA.

character: Kang Sok-Joo

original_name: Threat Matrix

Avatar: The Last Airbender

overview: In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

character: Old Wanderer (voice)

original_name: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Burke's Law

overview: Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

character: Sidney Ying

original_name: Burke's Law

T. J. Hooker

overview: Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.

character: Chow Duc Khan

original_name: T. J. Hooker

Little House on the Prairie

overview: When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

character: Sam Wing

original_name: Little House on the Prairie

Beverly Hills, 90210

overview: Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.

character: Ben Sosna

original_name: Beverly Hills, 90210

seaQuest DSV

overview: In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.

character: Vietnamese President Chi

original_name: seaQuest DSV

Simon & Simon

overview: A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.

original_name: Simon & Simon

Airwolf

overview: As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.

character: Colonel Tranh Van Zung

original_name: Airwolf

Hawaii Five-O

overview: Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

character: Joseph Matsukino

original_name: Hawaii Five-O

The Streets of San Francisco

overview: Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

original_name: The Streets of San Francisco

Naked City

overview:
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format.

In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

character: James Kam

original_name: Naked City

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

overview:
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew.

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.

original_name: The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Babylon 5

overview: Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.

character: Taro Isogi

original_name: Babylon 5

Perry Mason

overview: The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

character: Ward Toyama

original_name: Perry Mason

Mission: Impossible

overview:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin.

The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.

character: Shiki

original_name: Mission: Impossible

Emergency!

overview: The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.

original_name: Emergency!

origin_country: US GB

Ironside

overview: When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

original_name: Ironside

Police Woman

overview: Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.

original_name: Police Woman

S.W.A.T.

overview:
S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976.

Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.

The Hitchhiker

overview: A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

character: Nishi

original_name: The Hitchhiker

origin_country: CA US

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

overview: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

character: Self

original_name: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Ben Casey

original_name: Ben Casey

Ellery Queen

overview: Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.

character: Stephen Yang

original_name: Ellery Queen

The Lieutenant

overview: Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike.

original_name: The Lieutenant

The Bing Crosby Show

overview:
The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby and actress Beverly Garland as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughters during the early 1960s. In the format, Crosby portrayed a former entertainer turned architectural designer with a penchant for singing, and each episode usually contained at least one song. Produced by Crosby's own company, affiliated with Desilu Studios and subsequently CBS Paramount Television, the series aired on ABC from September 14, 1964, to April 19, 1965. Rebroadcasts continued until June 14.

The roles of the daughters Janice and Joyce Collins were played by Carol Faylen and Diane Sherry, respectively. Top Warner Bros. character actor Frank McHugh appeared as Willie Walters, the Collins's live-in handyman. Christopher Riordan and Pamela Austin appeared twice on the program, Riordan as an unnamed "Neighbor" and Austin as Clarissa Roberts.

Guest stars included Herbert Anderson, Frankie Avalon, Jack Benny, Jimmy Boyd, Macdonald Carey, Vikki Carr, Dennis Day, Roger Ewing, Glenda Farrell, Joan Fontaine, Kathy Garver, George Gobel, Kathryn Grant, Pat Harrington, Jr., Phil Harris, Charles Lane, Nobu McCarthy, Gary Morton, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan, Ruth Roman, and James Shigeta.

original_name: The Bing Crosby Show

Dr. Kildare

overview: The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

character: Dr. Roy Shigera

original_name: Dr. Kildare

The Outer Limits

overview: The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

character: Maj. Jong

original_name: The Outer Limits

Kraft Mystery Theatre

overview: Kraft Mystery Theatre is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from June 17, 1961 to September 25, 1963.  A successor to Kraft Television Theater with a change of focus away from straight drama. The high productions remained along with the ability to attract well known talent.

original_name: Kraft Mystery Theatre

Renegade

overview: Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after he testified about police corruption, leading Lt. Donald Dixon to set him up.

original_name: Renegade

Masquerade

overview: Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.

character: Makko

original_name: Masquerade

Jake and the Fatman

overview:
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles.

The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.

character: Mr. Koso Nakasone

original_name: Jake and the Fatman

The Outer Limits

character: AIO Captain Newa

The Rockford Files

overview: Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

character: Clement Chin

original_name: The Rockford Files

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

overview: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.

character: Inspector Mantjur (voice)

original_name: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Medical Center

overview: Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.

Once an Eagle

overview:
Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S. Fischer and based on the 1968 Anton Myrer novel of the same name.

The first and last installments of the seven-part series were each two-hour broadcasts, while the interim episodes were 60 minutes.

The mini-series concerns the thirty year careers of two military men, from the outbreak of World War I to the aftermath of World War II.

Golden Globe Awards

overview: An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

The Love Boat

overview: Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

Kung Fu

overview: The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

Cybill

overview: Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995, to July 13, 1998. Starring, Cybill Shepherd, the show revolves around the life of Cybill Sheridan, a twice-divorced single mother of two and struggling actress in her 40s, who has never gotten her big show business break.

Matt Houston

overview: Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.

Deutsch

biography:
James Saburo Shigeta (17. Juni 1929 – 28. Juli 2014) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Sänger und Musiker japanischer Abstammung. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Rollen in „The Crimson Kimono“ (1959), „Walk Like a Dragon“ (1960), „Flower Drum Song“ (1961), „Bridge to the Sun“ (1961), „Stirb langsam“ (1988) und „Mulan“ (1998). Im Jahr 1960 gewann er zusammen mit drei weiteren Schauspielern den Golden Globe Award als vielversprechendster Newcomer – männlich.

Zu Beginn seiner Karriere spielte Shigeta häufig romantische Hauptrollen, die für einen Schauspieler asiatischer Herkunft zu seiner Zeit fast nicht existierten, was ihn zu einem Vorreiter für die Darstellung asiatisch-amerikanischer Menschen in den Medien machte. Das Magazin „Goldsea Asian-American Daily“ führte ihn als einen der „inspirierendsten asiatisch-amerikanischen Menschen aller Zeiten“ auf.

Vor seiner Hollywood-Karriere feierte er im Ausland, insbesondere in Japan und Australien, Erfolge als Popsänger und Performer.

普通话

詹姆斯繁田

biography:
日裔美国演员詹姆斯繁田，在美国时间28日过世于洛杉矶家中，享寿81岁。詹姆斯出生于夏威夷，是首批成功打入好莱坞的亚裔影星之一，近年最让人记忆犹新的角色，是在1988年的《终极警探》中，饰演被劫企业的高层，但詹姆斯留名影史的，将会是他如何藉作品改变亚裔在美国主流媒体上的面貌。

詹姆斯以歌手出道，原本不会说日语的他，1950年受日本东宝邀请赴日发展，曾连续参加1957、1958年的《红白歌合战》，当年在日本红极一时。他的首部好莱坞电影是1959年的《血色和服》，当时东方人角色几乎都由西方人饰演，配合夸张化妆与滑稽腔调，「白化」诠释接近歧视。但他饰演的警探操着流利英语，甚至发展出跨种族恋情，对提升亚洲人在美国的形象与地位有不可磨灭的地位。

Català

biography: James Saburo Shigeta (Honolulu, Hawaii, 17 de juny de 1929 - Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 28 de juliol de 2014) va ser un actor i cantant nord-americà d'origen japonès.

普通话

詹姆斯繁田

biography:
日裔美國演員詹姆斯繁田，在美國時間 28 日過世於洛杉磯家中，享壽 81 歲。詹姆斯出生於夏威夷，是首批成功打入好萊塢的亞裔影星之一，近年最讓人記憶猶新的角色，是在 1988 年的《虎膽龍威》中，飾演被劫企業的高層，但詹姆斯留名影史的，將會是他如何藉作品改變亞裔在美國主流媒體上的面貌。

詹姆斯以歌手出道，原本不會説日語的他，1950 年受日本東寶邀請赴日發展，曾聯續參加 1957、1958 年的《紅白歌合戰》，當年在日本紅極一時。他的首部好萊塢電影是 1959 年的《血色和服》，當時東方人角色幾乎都由西方人飾演，配合誇張化妝與滑稽腔調，「白化」詮釋接近歧視。但他飾演的警探操著流利英語，甚至發展出跨種族戀情，對提升亞洲人在美國的形象與地位有不可磨滅的地位。

Italiano

James Shigeta

biography: James Saburo Shigeta è stato un attore, cantante e musicista statunitense di origini giapponesi.

title: Brother

overview: A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

title: Die Hard

overview: High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.

title: Mulan

overview: When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing ruthless invaders, brutal training, and the risk of execution if discovered, she must decide who she truly is— and what she’s willing to fight for.

title: Flower Drum Song

overview: A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

title: Drive

overview: A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

title: The Crimson Kimono

overview: Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

title: The Yakuza

overview: When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

title: The People I've Slept With

overview: A sex-addicted woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and needs to figure out who the baby daddy is.

title: The Questor Tapes

overview: Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who's now under suspect of having stolen the android.

title: Escape to Mindanao

overview: Two American POWs break out of a Japanese jungle prison camp with their captors' secret decoding device and try to reach freedom despite being slowed by an opportunistic sea captain, his pretty daughter, and a black marketeer.

title: Paradise, Hawaiian Style

overview: Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.

title: Home from the Eastern Sea

overview: This documentary covers the story of Chinese-, Japanese-, and Filipino-Americans in Washington state, from their first arrivals, to the discrimination they've faced, to the modern families and communities that thrive today.

title: Matt Helm

overview: In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.

title: Tomorrow's Child

overview: The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.

title: Carol for Another Christmas

overview: Wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist Daniel Grudge, long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.

title: Lost Horizon

overview: While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

title: Death Walks in Laredo

overview: Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.

title: Cry for Happy

overview: Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

title: Bridge to the Sun

overview: Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When World War II breaks out, they encounter animosity and trouble from both sides.

title: Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

overview: A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

original_title: Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

title: Nobody's Perfect

overview: This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing, would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.

title: The Renegades

overview: In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.

title: Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

overview: The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or an actual murder plot, until Jonathan finds himself the unsuspecting target of a killer. It begins to look like the culprit behind the plot is an old friend, Frank Crane, but there may be a connection to a corporate takeover of Hart Industries as well.

title: China Cry

overview: Young Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become part of Mao Tze Tung's "new society", but soon becomes disenchanted by the economic misery the changes bring to her family. Before long, the authorities become aware of Neng Yee's feelings and she is taken to a labour camp, overseen by the sadistic Colonel Cheng.

title: Midway

overview: This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

title: Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century

overview: This documentary introduces viewers to qigong, a 5,000-year-old method of cultivating and circulating the life energy called qi. It relates some of the history of qigong, as well as scientific evidence of efficacy. We also see qigong used in various contexts in modern China, and hear from Chinese doctors and qigong practitioners. The film was originally produced for the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

original_title: Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century

title: The Slanted Screen

overview: From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen examines the portrayal Asian men in film and television, and how new filmmakers are now re-defining age-old stereotypes.

title: Operation Heartbeat

overview: Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and friend. Operation Heartbeat was the pilot movie for the TV series Medical Center.

title: Manila, Open City

overview: War drama set in the closing stages of World War Two. As Allied Forces are nearing the defeat of the Japanese Army in Manila, the Japanese Empire's soldiers begin attacking innocent civilians. A brutal month-long battle ensues.

title: Midnight Man

overview: When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer to fight back.

title: Walk Like a Dragon

overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.

title: Hollywood Chinese

overview: Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues, and treasures. It weaves together a wondrous portrait of actors, directors, writers, and movie icons who have defined American feature films, from the silent era to the current new wave of Asian American cinema. At once entertaining and enlightening, Hollywood Chinese reveals long-untold stories behind the Asian faces that have graced the silver screen, and weaves a rich and complicated tapestry, one marked by unforgettable performances and groundbreaking films, but also by a tangled history of race and representation.

title: The Young Lawyers

overview: Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver.  TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.

title: Slaying the Dragon

overview: A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films, such as "The Thief of Bagdad," "The Good Earth" and "The World of Suzie Wong," interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.

title: Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

overview: The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.

original_title: Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

title: Cage II: The Arena of Death

overview: After being tricked into thinking his best friend, and caretaker is dead, Vietnam Vet, and mentally disabled person has no other choice but to enter The Arena Of Death!

title: Space Marines

overview: Space pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter explosive and an important official. Space marines, led by Captain Gray, must stop their evil plans.

title: Samurai

overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.

title: Cage

overview: A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two open up a bar together, but some local gangsters make things tough for them after they refuse to take part in brutal "cage" matches where fighters battle to the point of serious injury and/or death.

title: The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

overview: After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.

title: Yorktown: A Time to Heal

overview:
Having escaped capture by the Klingons, a damaged Starfleet reconnaissance probe crashes undetected on the planet Pahl III. Hikaru Sulu, serving as first officer on the retrofitted USS Yorktown, is sent by Admiral Nogura on a secret mission to help locate the missing spy drone.
 The rediscovered and completed student fan film made with George Takei.

title: The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk

overview: The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.

original_title: The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk

title: Beam Me Up, Sulu

overview: In 1985, Star Trek's George Takei joined a group of dedicated fans to make a student film deep in the California forest—only for the footage to mysteriously vanish. Nearly 40 years later, Beam Me Up, Sulu unearths this lost film, revealing not just a piece of fan history but a broader story of representation, resilience, and the ongoing fight for inclusion in media and society. The film was released as Yorktown: A Time to Heal (2022)

title: Brother

title: Die Hard

title: Mulan

title: Flower Drum Song

title: Drive

title: The Crimson Kimono

title: The Yakuza

title: The People I've Slept With

title: The Questor Tapes

title: Escape to Mindanao

title: Paradise, Hawaiian Style

title: Home from the Eastern Sea

title: Matt Helm

title: Tomorrow's Child

title: Carol for Another Christmas

title: Lost Horizon

title: Death Walks in Laredo

title: Cry for Happy

title: Bridge to the Sun

title: Nobody's Perfect

title: The Renegades

title: Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

title: China Cry

title: Midway

title: The Slanted Screen

title: Operation Heartbeat

title: Manila, Open City

title: Midnight Man

title: Walk Like a Dragon

title: Hollywood Chinese

title: The Young Lawyers

title: Slaying the Dragon

title: Cage II: The Arena of Death

title: Space Marines

title: Samurai

title: Cage

title: The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

title: Yorktown: A Time to Heal

title: Beam Me Up, Sulu


Katsumi Yanagijima

biography:
Katsumi Yanagishima (柳島 克巳, Yanagishima Katsumi; born 1950, Gifu Prefecture), also credited as Katsumi Yanagijima, is a Japanese cinematographer.

Yanagishima has worked with Takeshi Kitano in many of his films, including A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine, Zatoichi, Kids Return, Kikujiro and Dolls. He won the Japan Academy Prize for best cinematography for Go! in 2002 and for Zatoichi in 2004. Battle Royale and The Grudge 2 are some of his other known films.

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Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

original_name: 太宰治短編小説集

original_language: ja

Haha no Matsu Sato

job: Camera Technician

overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Jirō Asada.  Three adult children visit their mother living in the countryside, each at separate times, but things aren't really what they seem to be.

original_name: 母の待つ里

Tokyo Vice

overview: A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

original_name: Tokyo Vice

original_language: en

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

Slovenčina

iso_639_1: sk

iso_3166_1: SK

english_name: Slovak

普通话

iso_3166_1: CN

also_known_as:
柳島 克巳
やなぎじま かつみ

title: Zatoichi

overview: Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

original_title: 座頭市

title: Brother

overview: A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

original_title: Brother

title: Dolls

overview: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

original_title: ドールズ

title: The Grudge 2

overview: A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.

original_title: The Grudge 2

title: Kikujiro

overview: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

original_title: 菊次郎の夏

title: Shutter

overview: A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

original_title: Shutter

title: Samurai Resurrection

overview: Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. To do this , he resurrects an army of living dead swordsmen. Between him and his goal, only Yagyu Jubei stands...

original_title: 魔界転生

title: Maki

overview: Story of displacement, power, and vulnerability told through the relationship between a hostess, the bartender she loves, and the boss who controls them. The story is set in the underworld of the New York City's Japanese Diaspora.

original_title: Maki

title: Eating Women

overview: Follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds through what they eat and whom they date.

original_title: 食べる女

title: God's Puzzle

overview: A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own.

original_title: 神様のパズル

title: GO

overview: Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

original_title: GO

title: Dreams for Sale

overview: After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.

original_title: 夢売るふたり

title: Suicide Bus

overview: A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite sombre), but Mitsuki learns its true purpose: the other passengers and the tour manager have a suicide pact to send the bus over a cliff so their families can collect the insurance money.

original_title: 生きない

title: Like Someone in Love

overview: An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.

original_title: Like Someone in Love

title: Takeshis'

overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

original_title: Takeshis'

title: Beyond Outrage

overview: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.

original_title: アウトレイジ ビヨンド

title: Glory to the Filmmaker!

overview: Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

original_title: ばんざい! / 監督・ばんざい!

title: Tokyo Capsule

original_title: トーキョーカプセル

title: Kinpira

overview: A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.

title: Roppongi Banana Boys

overview: A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who are still growing up. It is based on the light novel of the same name written by Takashi Kitajima

title: Outrage

overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

title: Achilles and the Tortoise

overview: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

title: A Scene at the Sea

overview: A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.

original_title: あの夏、いちばん静かな海。

title: Outrage Coda

overview: Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

title: Jingi

title: Sonatine

overview: Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

title: Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

overview: Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.

title: Girls' Compass

overview: Four high school girls, who are part of the legendary theatrical group known as "Rashinban," stops performing due to the sudden death of one member. Four years later the explanation of the girl's death is revealed and the other girls start a plan for revenge...

title: Sea Without Exit

overview: Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National High School Baseball Championships. Shortly after entering college, however, Namiki's athletic career is called into question after he suffers a severe elbow injury. But despite a disheartening diagnosis, Namiki is determined to make a comeback. With a little help from his teammates it appears that he is getting back on track, too. Recently, he's even developed a new slow ball that he and his teammates have christened "the magic pitch".  Fate can be a cruel mistress though, and when World War II breaks out Namiki the entire team join the navy and begin a training regiment specifically designed to prepare them for the ultimate darkness, an submarine attack method also known as "The Human Torpedo".

title: Ashura

overview: Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought.  Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.

title: Battle Royale

overview: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

title: Kids Return

overview: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

title: Getting Any?

overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

title: Boiling Point

overview: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

title: Midsummer's Equation

overview: Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.

title: Gold Boy

overview: It was supposed to be a perfect crime... until it was witnessed. Based on a Chinese drama series with two billion total views, the film depicts a psychological battle between a murderer and three kids.

title: Run Ichiro Run

overview: Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true.

title: Let's Go Karaoke!

overview: Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.

title: Ito

overview: A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.

title: Dear Doctor

overview: Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.

title: The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn

overview: Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the inn's elder proprietress, who is still resentful of her ex-husband that deserted his wife and family.

title: Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

overview: At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to keep her under surveillance. In spite of his mission, he falls in love with Nami and tries to convince her not to get involved in other people’s affairs. She is being monitored as a state-level security risk, and the bureau is unwilling to tolerate any more trouble from her. However, to save a friend, Nami runs out of the house and risks everything she has to confront the enemy. When she comes home, she finds her husband pointing a gun at her! A gunshot echoes through the quiet, upscale neighborhood…The movie picks up where the controversial ending of the drama series left off!!

original_title: 劇場版 奥様は、取り扱い注意

title: Black Widow Business

overview: Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.

title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

overview: Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.

title: Buy Bling, Get One Free

overview: Dumped by his girlfriend, Kamono gets really down. 'What's wrong with my fashion?' he wonders a she's told off for being embarrassingly over-the-top with an odd fashion that nobody understands. One day though, a strange man offers him to become a fashion leader, a dreamlike opportunity. In a trance, Kamono follows this man to enter a strange and unimaginable world...

title: Robo-G

overview: Three engineers cannot make a robot work in time for a science show, and hire a man to inhabit the robot's shell to save their jobs. The robot's performance at the show attracts media attention and scrutiny from a science student.

title: 18-Year-old Call Girl

overview: Mitsuhiko, an assistant director, has an experience with a young call girl at a hotel one day. He enters into a "relationship" with the girl he meets there for 30,000 yen per intimate encounter, but gradually finds himself being manipulated by her.

title: Zatoichi

title: Brother

title: Dolls

title: The Grudge 2

title: Kikujiro

title: Shutter

title: Samurai Resurrection

title: Maki

title: Eating Women

title: God's Puzzle

title: GO

title: Dreams for Sale

title: Suicide Bus

title: Like Someone in Love

title: Takeshis'

title: Beyond Outrage

title: Glory to the Filmmaker!

original_title: ばんざい! / 監督・ばんざい!

title: Tokyo Capsule

title: Kinpira

title: Roppongi Banana Boys

title: Outrage

title: Achilles and the Tortoise

title: A Scene at the Sea

original_title: あの夏、いちばん静かな海。

title: Outrage Coda

title: Jingi

title: Sonatine

title: Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

title: Girls' Compass

title: Sea Without Exit

title: Ashura

title: Battle Royale

title: Kids Return

title: Getting Any?

title: Boiling Point

title: Midsummer's Equation

title: Gold Boy

title: Run Ichiro Run

title: Let's Go Karaoke!

title: Ito

title: Dear Doctor

title: The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn

title: Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

original_title: 劇場版 奥様は、取り扱い注意

title: Black Widow Business

title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

title: Buy Bling, Get One Free

title: Robo-G

title: 18-Year-old Call Girl