During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.
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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 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 produced by Dana Satler Hankins. He portrayed real-life educator/activist Shigeo Yoshida in the 442nd RCT origin story Go For Broke from producer/screenwriter Stacey Hayashi. Most recently, he played the hard-nosed Uncle Bob in the generational family comedy No No Girl from writer/director Paul Daisuke Goodman--for which he received two nominations at the Austin Revolution Film Festival, and he plays Hiro in Brian M. Tang's action/fantasy short Kodama, receiving its world premiere at SXSW 2023. Tashima received an Academy Award® for directing the dramatic short film Visas and Virtue, a re-telling of the heroic actions of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara. In addition he co-wrote the screenplay adapting a one-act play by Tim Toyama, and starred as the Humanitarian diplomat Sugihara. He also directed, co-wrote and starred in the WWII Japanese American internment short film Day of Independence which was nominated for a NATAS Northern California Area Emmy®. These two directorial works came from Tashima's own Cedar Grove Productions, an indie entertainment house aiming to "Boldly defy mainstream Hollywood by giving Asian Americans the close-up onscreen."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Shinkoda (born March 25, 1971) is a Canadian film and television actor who stars as Dai on the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies from Steven Spielberg and as Sektor in the Warner Bros. web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy directed by Kevin Tancharoen. Shinkoda also starred as recurring villain Nobu Yoshioka on Seasons 1 and 2 of Marvel's Daredevil, which is distributed and viewable via Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Shinkoda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Arlene Newman is an American actress and producer. She has performed in many roles in both television and film including the hit television shows Lost, Marker, Fantasy Island and movies such as 10 Minutes, Poison Sky, Alice, and the faith based films Soul Surfer, My First Miracle and Romans Road. She has worked with a number of recognizable faces including academy award winning actor Lou Gossett Jr, Dennis Quaid, Quinton Aaron, Kevin Sorbo, Sean Patrick Flanery, Carrie Underwood, Jimmy Borges, Stephen Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Kent Faulcon, Glenn Plummer, Jeremy Sumpter, John Philbin, Emilie De Ravin, Branscombe Richmond, Kenny Lofton, Chris Carmack, Bethany Hamilton, Matt Rauch, Jason London, Craig T. Nelson and AnnaSophia Robb. She was very close to her mentor Mr. Radio "Joe Franklin" calling him her adopted grandfather. Arlene grew up in New Hampshire, and spent some of her childhood in Alaska and Canada. As an adult, She has lived and worked in Italy and Japan. Her father is from Newfoundland Canada and her mother from New Hampshire. Growing up in a musical Scotch/Irish home, Arlene did her first TV appearance at the age of 5 on a show called "The Uncle Guss Show" filmed in New Hampshire. Her father is a bagpiper/minister and her mother a teacher. She started dance at a very young age and competed in many pageants, including winning the Miss Interline pageant and Mrs. Hawaii America pageant. Arlene found her passion for acting as a child. She started acting with a group of kids that would get together during the summer months. They would write plays, make costumes, then dance, sing and perform on a beach for all summer vacationers. She would also spend a lot of time working with the children's ministry performing in the church. She started taking acting acting classes in grammar school and had the lead in several plays in high school. Her high school drama coach as well as her dance instructor encouraged her to continue acting after high school. She uses many of the personal experiences of working with foster children, prevent child abuse, and crisis pregnancy center to develop her characters. She works with several charities that are dear to her heart. She was the spokes person for "Prevent Child Abuse in 2005. She works with Heart Gallery, St. Charles Home, Cards for Kids in Hospitals, and Aloha Pregnancy Center.
Dann Seki was born as Dennis T. Sekine. He is known for his work on The Informant! (2009), Under the Blood-Red Sun (2014) and So Close Shig (2017).
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