Saren Sakurai
A collection of clips from the 70s and 80s of Japanese and Japanese American actors and actresses, and their appearances on television and movies.
The original Japanese badass on American TV, still to this day an icon in the JA community.
Goro Suzuki had to change his name to get work but once you knew he was a brother, his character Jack Soo was a favorite.
Ah, what?
Character actor with appearances on MASH; Taxi; All in the Family; Hello, Larry
Pat Morita's full interview at http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/pat-morita
A clip of a running gag from Sid & Marty Kroffts' worst show ever. Not surprisingly, the network forced this to be a running gag simply because they kept wanting to see Pink Lady in bikinis. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff)
The show didn't last long, but Marilyn went on to Xanadu, Hill Street Blues, Magnum P.I. and she is currently Arts Education Director of the nation's premier Asian American theatre organization, East West Players, located in the "Little Tokyo" area of Los Angeles.
A spin-off of Welcome Back Kotter
Pat Morita is Ohara
In San Francisco, David meets Li Sung, a Chinese philosopher who suggests that controlling the autonomic nervous system may be a way to subdue the Hulk.
This is probably the most influential Japanese character from the 80s. Sorry Gedde, but you were a distant runner up.
Mr. Miyagi wasn't the only Japanese in the Karate Kid series.
He's not Japanese, obviously, but in the middle of Indiana, in the 70's, it was close enough for me to emulate.
Wow. They just don't get off the english as a second language thing, do they?
Lenn Sakata of the Baltimore Orioles breaks an impressive 0 for 66 streak against the Chicago White Sox.
Oh, the little tiny injustices that come from stereotypes in film. Who is the Flava Flav of the Japanese?
Japanese playing a Korean, but whatever. Would have kicked Connery's ass in the real world.
Chinese? Japanese? Ugh. But Watanabe is still the king. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedde_Watanabe)
Steamboat is so much better than Ric Flair.
Masa began his career as a professional wrestler at the 1964 Summer Olympics and he wrestled professionally from 1965 to 1999. He won two pair titles in the very early eighties with Mr. Fuji.
Mr. Fuji was a wrestler and then a manager, and had a very long career in the WWF. If you want a short study on the American stereotypes of Japanese, Mr. Fuji pretty much ticked off everything on the list.
Sean Connery stars as James Bond in the 5th 007 film. The movie takes place in Japan.
I spend countless Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching every Godzilla movie ever made.
Maybe we should just pretend Toshiro Mifune was even in this thing.
Crazy Japanese businessmen loose in America.
Half Japanese and Half from Ohio. Hyper since diapers; a digital original since the Mac SE.
