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The Slanted Screen
''The Slanted Screen'' is a 2006 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Jeff Adachi which examines the stereotypical portrayals and absence of East Asian males in the cinema of the United States. The film analyzes Hollywood from the silent era to the 21st century. Synopsis ''The Slanted Screen'' features interviews of variety of Asian American filmmakers, critics, producers, and actors, along with several film clips. It observes stereotypical portrayals of Asian American men in Hollywood such as Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan. The film also discusses the importance of influential Asian actors in Hollywood, such as Sessue Hayakawa and Bruce Lee. The film is organized in chronological order, examining the portrayal of Asian Americans in Hollywood from around the 1920s to the 21st century and the future of Asian Americans in film. In order to have more inclusive representation, the film highlights the importance of having more roles that are designed for Asian Americans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Adachi
Jeffrey Gordon Adachi (August 29, 1959 – February 22, 2019) was an American attorney, pension reform advocate, and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019. Early life and education Adachi was the son of a Sacramento auto mechanic and a laboratory assistant. His parents and grandparents spent part of World War II in the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arkansas. Adachi was a notably poor student at C. K. McClatchy High School accruing numerous absences due to the many hours he spent working at his part-time jobs. He attended Sacramento City College before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley where, in 1981, he received his bachelor’s degree. Adachi received his Juris Doctor from the Hastings College of the Law in 1985. Career Adachi began his career as a deputy public defender with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office where he worked for thirty-two years. He ultimately rose to the rank of chief attorney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Chang
Terence Chang Chia-Chen () is a Hong Kong and American film producer. Life and career Chang was born in Hong Kong in 1949. In 1968, he took architecture courses at the University of Oregon; he then went on to study film at New York University in 1974. By 1977, Chang had gone back to Hong Kong to join Golden Harvest. On ''Itchy Fingers'' (1979), where he worked as an assistant producer, Chang met John Woo, whom he would develop a longtime friendship and business partnership with. Chang left Golden Harvest in 1979 to join Rediffusion Television, where he oversaw the station's television production. During his tenure, Chang would befriend writer and producer Johnny Mak, and would join Mak's newly-formed production company in 1981. He is credited as an associate producer on ''Lonely Fifteen'' (1982), '' Dragon Force'' (1982), and '' Everlasting Love'' (1984). ''Everlasting Love'' would be screened at the Directors' Fortnight section during the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cheat (1915 Film)
''The Cheat'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean, Ward's real-life husband. Plot Edith Hardy is a spoiled society woman who continues to buy expensive clothes even when her husband, Richard, tells her all his money is sunk into a stock speculation and he can't pay her bills until the stock goes up. She even delays paying her maid her wages, and the embarrassed Richard must do so. Edith is also the treasurer of the local Red Cross fund drive for Belgian refugees, which holds a gala dance at the home of Hishuru Tori, a rich Japanese ivory merchant (or, in the 1918 re-release, Haka Arakau, a rich Burmese ivory merchant). He is an elegant and dangerously sexy man, to whom Edith seems somewhat drawn; he shows her his roomful of treasures, and stamps one of them with a heated brand to show that it belongs to him. A society friend of the Hardys tells Edith that Richard's speculation will not be pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrell Hamamoto
Darrell Y. Hamamoto is an American writer, academic, and specialist in U.S. media and ethnic studies. He was a scholar of Asian American media and professor for almost 23 years at the University of California, Davis before retiring in 2018. Education Hamamoto received his education at CSU Long Beach, Bowling Green State University and UC Irvine. Influential works He created a 50-minute erotic film named ''Skin on Skin'', which starred Asian American actors and actresses and addresses the desexualization of Asian American males. Hamamoto created another piece called ''Yellowcaust: A Patriot Act'', which includes clips from ''Skin on Skin'' and information regarding atrocities committed against Asian Americans in the U.S.'s history. His work has generated controversy for producing porn movies as research. Hamamoto was featured in both ''The Daily Show'' and ''Masters of the Pillow'', which is a documentary about ''Skin on Skin''. Conspiracy Theories Professor Hamamoto has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (; born September 27, 1950) is a Japanese-American actor and producer. Often cast as villains, he is known for his film roles in: ''The Last Emperor'' (1987), the James Bond film ''Licence to Kill'' (1989), '' Showdown in Little Tokyo'' (1991), '' American Me'' (1992), '' Rising Sun'' (1993), ''Mortal Kombat'' (1995), ''The Phantom'' (1996), '' Snow Falling on Cedars'' (1999), ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001), ''Planet of the Apes'' (also 2001), ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005), ''Tekken'' (2009), ''47 Ronin'' (2013), '' Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge'' (2014), and ''Kubo and the Two Strings'' (2017). He starred as Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi on the Amazon Prime television series '' The Man in the High Castle'' (2015–2018) and Hiroki Watanabe on the Netflix series ''Lost in Space'' (2018–2021). Tagawa is known for his role as the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Shigeta
James Saburo Shigeta (; June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor and singer. He was known for his roles in ''The Crimson Kimono'' (1959), ''Walk Like a Dragon'' (1960), ''Flower Drum Song (film), Flower Drum Song'' (1961), ''Bridge to the Sun'' (1961), ''Midway (1976 film), Midway'' (1976), ''Die Hard'' (1988), and ''Mulan (1998 film), Mulan'' (1998). In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, 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 Americans, 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 Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Rhee
Phillip Rhee (born September 7, 1960) is a South Korean martial artist, actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his role as Tommy Lee in the 1989 American martial arts film '' Best of the Best'', and its sequels '' Best of the Best 2'' (1993), '' Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back'' (1995), and '' Best of the Best 4: Without Warning'' (1998). Rhee's 1980 representation of the United States' Taekwondo Team against the South Korean team in the championships of the Asia Games formed the basis of his screenplay for the film ''Best of the Best''. Rhee is trained in various martial arts such as Taekwondo (where he is a 6th dan black belt), Hapkido (where he is a 3rd dan black belt), Wing Chun and Boxing. Life and career Rhee was born in South Korea and raised in San Francisco, California. He is a martial artist, actor, director and film producer who has created, produced and starred in numerous films, including the ''Best of the Best'' film series. The first ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Nguyen
Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyễn Xuân Trí) (September 17, 1962) is a Vietnamese– American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Harry Truman Ioki on '' 21 Jump Street'' and as Johnny Loh on '' V.I.P.'' Recently, he starred as Zing in the Cinemax/ Max martial arts crime drama series ''Warrior''. In film, he is known for starring in '' Little Fish'', ''The Doom Generation'' and '' The Rebel''. Early life Nguyen was born Nguyễn Xuân Trí in Saigon, South Vietnam, and was one of two sons in his family. His mother, My Le, was an actress and dancer, and his father, Xuân Phát, was an actor, comedian, writer, and producer in Vietnam. The family left Vietnam in April 1975 during the fall of Saigon. In his teens, his family arrived in Guam as refugees, and then the family was moved to a refugee camp in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Finally with the assistance of a Methodist church they relocated to Des Peres, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The ''21 Jump Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mako (actor)
was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ), pronounced "MAH-ko". His career in film, on television, and on stage spanned five decades and 165 productions. He was an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and Tony Award nominee. Born and raised in Kobe, Mako moved to the United States after the Second World War, where his dissident parents had moved to escape political persecution. After serving with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he trained in acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and later co-founded the East West Players. His role as Po-Han (his second credited role on film) in the 1966 film '' The Sand Pebbles'' saw him nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other various roles included Kichijiro in the 1971 film adaptation of ''Silence'', Oomiak "The Fearless One" in '' The Island at the Top of the World'' (1974), Akiro the Wizard in ''Conan the Barbarian'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzi Ma
Tzi Ma (;) is a Hong Kong-American actor. He has appeared in television shows including '' The Man in the High Castle'' and '' 24'', and films including ''Dante's Peak'', ''Rush Hour'', ''Rush Hour 3'', '' Arrival'', '' The Farewell'', ''Tigertail'', and ''Mulan''. From 2021 to 2023, he starred in the American martial arts television series ''Kung Fu'' on The CW. Early life and education Ma was born in Hong Kong, the youngest of seven children. In 1949, Ma's father moved to Hong Kong following the Chinese Communist Revolution, and then to the United States when Ma was five years old, following political turmoil in Hong Kong. Ma grew up in New York, where his parents ran an American Chinese restaurant, Ho Wah, in Staten Island. According to Ma, immigration activist Lau Sing Kee previously operated the restaurant. Ma found his love for acting when he played Buffalo Bill in an elementary school production of ''Annie Get Your Gun''. Career Ma has deep ties to theatre. He cites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Lin
Justin Lin (, born October 11, 1971) is a Taiwanese Americans, Taiwanese-American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. His films have grossed over $3 billion USD worldwide . He is best known for his directorial work on ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' (2002), the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise from ''The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'' (2006) to ''Fast & Furious 6'' (2013) and ''F9 (film), F9'' (2021), and ''Star Trek Beyond'' (2016). He is also known for his work on television programs like ''Community (TV series), Community'', and ''True Detective''. Early life and education Lin was born on October 11, 1971, in Taipei, Taiwan. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of eight and grew up in Buena Park, California. He graduated from nearby Cypress High School. Lin earned the rank of Eagle Scout in March 1989 while a member of Boy Scout Troop 670. Lin attended the University of California, San Diego, for two years before transferring to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Yun Lee
William Yun Lee (born March 22, 1971) is an American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Danny Woo in the supernatural drama ''Witchblade (2001 TV series), Witchblade'' and Jae Kim in the sci-fi series ''Bionic Woman (2007 TV series), Bionic Woman''. He has also appeared in the films ''Die Another Day'' (2002), ''Elektra (2005 film), Elektra'' (2005) and ''The Wolverine (film), The Wolverine'' (2013). He had a recurring role as Sang Min in ''Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'', played the original body of series protagonist Takeshi Kovacs in ''Altered Carbon (TV series), Altered Carbon'', appeared as Marvelous Man in ''The Guardians of Justice'' (2022) and voiced Wei Shen in the game ''Sleeping Dogs (video game), Sleeping Dogs'' (2012). From 2018 to 2024, he has appeared on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC medical drama ''The Good Doctor (American TV series), The Good Doctor'' playing Dr. Alex Park. Early life Lee was born in Arlington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
