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Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in for Sayonara (1957).
George Takei and Pat Morita became famous for supporting roles in Star Trek and Happy Days. In 1976, Morita starred on the first American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent, Mr. T and Tina and went on to become widely known as the mentor Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid movies of the 1980s. Other Asian Americans from this period include Jack Soo of Barney Miller.
Amy Hill has since been a mainstay of U.S. television for years as a recurring/character actress, some of her most notable roles include, Mrs. DePaulo on That's So Raven, Mama Tohru on Jackie Chan Adventures, Mrs. Hasagawa on Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Ah-Mah Jasmine Lee on The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Judy Harvey on Enlightened, Mah Mah on American Dad!, Dr. Wagerstein on UnREAL, and now Lourdes Chan on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Sho Kosugi the third lead and villain in Enter the Ninja (1981), he was given the solo lead starring role as the hero in the follow-up film Revenge of the Ninja (1983).
Mako Iwamatsu was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Sand Pebbles (1966). He also starred in other noted films Conan the Barbarian (1982) and its sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Bird People in China (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001). Pat Morita was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film The Karate Kid (1984).
Sessue Hayakawa the first leading Asian male actor in the United States
Gregg Araki is an influential American independent filmmaker of Japanese ancestry, who is especially noted for his often playful, punk-influenced work dealing with young, often gay, members of generation X trying to define themselves in the wake of the AIDS epidemic, rampant consumerism, and childhood trauma. His films such as The Doom Generation, The Living End and Nowhere were seen to exemplify the alienation and hedonistic abandon of their times, while his 2004 film Mysterious Skin, featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a dramatic role, was highly acclaimed for a dark and realistic portrait of the effects of child sexual abuse.
Kazu Hiro (born Kazuhiro Tsuji 辻 一弘 Tsuji Kazuhiro; May 26, 1969) is a Japanese-born American special make-up effects artist and visual artist.
Allegiance, which ran on Broadway from October 2015 to February 2016, is set during the Japanese American internment of World War II (with a framing story set in the present day), and was inspired by the personal experiences of George Takei, who stars in the musical along with Lea Salonga.
Music
James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins, Japanese-born Satomi Matsuzaki, bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Deerhoof, Kazu Makino the Japanese-American singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Blonde Redhead, Japanese bassist and singer Toko Yasuda of Enon; half-Japanese Miki Berenyi of Lush
Comics
Larry Hama (/ˈhæmə/; born June 7, 1949) is an American comic-book writer, artist, actor, and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro toyline. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He co-created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
Lingo
In The New York Times Magazine in January 1966, Success Story, Japanese-American Style, the term "model minority" was coined by sociologist William Petersen. It was used in order to describe Japanese Americans as ethnic minorities who, despite marginalization, have achieved success in the United States.
Best Supporting Actor
| Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Template:Nowrap | Template:Flagicon | Template:Nowrap | Colonel Saito | Template:Nom | Japanese descent.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> First Asian nominated for Supporting Actor. |
| 1966 | Mako Iwamatsu | Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon |
The Sand Pebbles | Po-Han | Template:Nom | Japanese descent.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Pat Morita | Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon |
The Karate Kid | Mr. Miyagi | Template:Nom | Japanese descent. | |
| 2003 | Ken Watanabe | Template:Flagicon | The Last Samurai | Template:Nowrap | Template:Nom | Japanese.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
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Japanese Characters in the DC Comic Universe or characters in the Marvel Universe.
We are also all very curious about the Oriental riff. We should investigate. The Japanese 70s film genre Pinky Violence s either problematic, cathartic or cool. We should do a big section on Usagi Yojimbo: 165 issues. Published by Dark Horse Comics. Started in 1996.
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