Personal Info
Known Credits
42
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1929-06-17 (96 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
Also Known For
James Saburo Shigeta繁田三郎
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2022 --
Yorktown: A Time to Heal
| Admiral Heilachiro Nogura
2019 --
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
| (archive footage)
2009 --
The People I've Slept With
| Charles Yang
2007 --
Hollywood Chinese
| Self
2006 --
The Slanted Screen
| Himself
2000 --
Brother
| Sugimoto
1999 --
Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
| Narrator
1998 --
Mulan
| General Li (voice)
1997 --
Drive
| Mr. Lau
1996 --
Space Marines
| Ambassador Nakamura
1995 --
Midnight Man
| Mao Mak
1994 --
Cage II: The Arena of Death
| Tin Lum Yin
1994 --
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
| Det. Whoo
1990 --
China Cry
| Dr. Sung
1990 --
Home from the Eastern Sea
| Narrator
1989 --
Cage
| Tin Lum Yin
1988 --
Slaying the Dragon
|
1988 --
Die Hard
| Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
1982 --
The Renegades
| Jimmy Lee
1982 --
Tomorrow's Child
| Donald Shibura
1980 --
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
| Field Marshal Abehata
1979 --
Samurai
| Takeo Chisato
1976 --
Midway
| Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
1976 --
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
| David Lao
1975 --
Matt Helm
| Tom McCauley
1974 --
The Yakuza
| Goro
1974 --
The Questor Tapes
| Dr. Chen
1973 --
Lost Horizon
| Brother To-Lenn
1969 --
The Young Lawyers
| Lee Ahn
1969 --
Operation Heartbeat
| Chief Resident
1968 --
Escape to Mindanao
| Lt. Takahashi
1968 --
Manila, Open City
| Captain Murakami
1968 --
Nobody's Perfect
| Diver Toshi O'Hara
1967 --
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
| George Ti Ming
1967 --
Death Walks in Laredo
| Lester Koto
1966 --
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
| Danny Kohana
1964 --
Carol for Another Christmas
| Japanese Doctor
1961 --
Flower Drum Song
| Wang Ta
1961 --
Bridge to the Sun
| Hidenari Terasaki
1961 --
Cry for Happy
| Harue
1960 --
Walk Like a Dragon
| Cheng Lu
1959 --
The Crimson Kimono
| Detective Joe Kojaku