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James Shigeta
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.
Como intérprete
Beam Me Up, Sulu
Yorktown: A Time to Heal
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
The People I've Slept With
Hollywood Chinese
The Slanted Screen
Brother
Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century
Mulán
Fuerza máxima
Space Marines
Rivales de sangre
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
Cage II
Home from the Eastern Sea
China Cry
Cage
Jungla de cristal
Slaying the Dragon
Tomorrow's Child
The Renegades
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Samurai
La batalla de Midway
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Matt Helm
Yakuza
Proyecto Androide
Horizontes perdidos
Operation Heartbeat