Chinese stowaway Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong (Jack Soo) Read More »
Tag Archives: James Shigeta
Walk Like a Dragon (1960) James Clavell, Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln ‘Linc’ Bartlett finds out there’s a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco Read More »
Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) Michael D. Moore, Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta
Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii — along the way he makes some friends Read More »
Manila, Open City (1968) Eddie Romero, Charito Solis, James Shigeta, Alex Nicol, Drama, War
In early February 1945 as Allied Forces slowly closed the net around the Japanese army entrenched within the city ruins of Manila, the defeated Empire’s soldiers adopted a brutal and savage operation of persecution against the citizens. Read More »
The Crimson Kimono (1959) Samuel Fuller, Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Classic, hard-to-find Sam Fuller pic is intriguing noir about two detective partners, one caucasian and one Japanese, who try to solve a complicated murder case. Unfortunately, trouble arises when along the way, both of them fall in love with the key witness!
Read More »