Best James Shigeta movies
We present our ranking of the best James Shigeta movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about James Shigeta.
TOP 10: Paradise, Hawaiian Style
James Shigeta as: Danny Kohana
Genre: Music, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1966
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
TOP 9: Lost Horizon
James Shigeta as: Brother To-Lenn
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Release: 1973
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
TOP 8: Drive
James Shigeta as: Mr. Lau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy
Release: 1997
A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
TOP 7: Flower Drum Song
James Shigeta as: Wang Ta
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 1961
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
TOP 6: Midway
James Shigeta as: Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 1976
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
TOP 5: The Crimson Kimono
James Shigeta as: Detective Joe Kojaku
Genre: Romance, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1959
A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.
TOP 4: The Yakuza
James Shigeta as: Goro
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1974
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
TOP 3: Brother
James Shigeta as: Sugimoto
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2000
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
TOP 2: Die Hard
James Shigeta as: Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 1988
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
TOP 1: Mulan
James Shigeta as: General Li (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure
Release: 1998
To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.