Tzi Ma
Also Known As: 馬志, Τζι Μα, 馬泰, Ци Ма , Тзи Ма, 马泰
Biography: Tzi Ma (Chinese: 馬泰;) is a Hong Kong-American actor. He is well known for his roles in television shows, such as The Man in the High Castle and 24, and films, such as Dante's Peak, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 3, Arrival, The Farewell, Tigertail, and Mulan. In 2021, he starred in the American martial arts television series Kung Fu on The CW.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Birthday: June 10, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Rush Hour
Overview: When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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The Ladykillers
Overview: An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-25
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RoboCop 2
Overview: After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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Long Story Short
Overview: Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter, actress Jodi Long.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-02
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Rush Hour 3
Overview: After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must fight their way through dangerous gangsters; however, this time, the past has come back to haunt Lee. Will the boys get the job done once and for all?
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-08
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The Forgotten
Overview: Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-26
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The Quiet American
Overview: Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Cocaine Cowboys
Overview: A rock band is on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they've juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians and their manager wish to sever ties with organized-crime, leave the drug world behind and concentrate on music. They are coerced into doing one last job for the Mob. They lose the $2 million of cocaine and find themselves marked men unless they can fulfill their obligations.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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Red Corner
Overview: An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Dante's Peak
Overview: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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Battle in Seattle
Overview: Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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Different Than Before
Overview: An Asian family celebrating at a Chinese restaurant for their daughter's engagement joyfully sing karaoke on stage when suddenly a group of racist hecklers shout at them. The head of the family, usually quiet and reserved, gets up on stage to sing next.Through a dreamscape fantasy and a montage of childhood flashbacks, the father is transformed into mega pop star "Baba", and finds his courage to be the force needed for good. He snaps back to reality, back to the restaurant, and back to the hecklers in the room. With a newfound sense of urgency, the father confronts the hecklers and rallies the entire restaurant of onlookers to boot them out.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-13
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A Shot Through the Wall
Overview: A young Chinese-American cop unravels after accidentally shooting an innocent African-American man through a wall.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-21
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Red Doors
Overview: The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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Hawaiian Gardens
Overview: A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-12-06
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An American Girl Story - Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance
Overview: In 1976 San Francisco, 10-year-old Ivy is a girl who must learn the balance between her two cultural identities — being Chinese, but still wishing to be just like her all-American friend, Julie.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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Baby
Overview: A tragic tale of an Asian youth's gang life in South East Los Angeles, set during the mid 80's to the early 90s.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Someone I Used to Know
Overview: When three childhood friends reunite on one midsummer night, their delirious abandon and reminiscence explodes into a daring search for hope and deliverance from the burden of their dreams.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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#1 Serial Killer
Overview: Chink is about an Asian American man who has internalized the racism he felt as a child and turned it into a hatred of all Asians – including himself. His anger and his desire to be like his hero (Ted Bundy) leads him to violence and ultimately to his dream of becoming the greatest serial killer in history.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-04
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Million Dollar Arm
Overview: In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Believer 2
Overview: A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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A Good Man
Overview: After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with an old foe, and giving him one more chance to reconcile his past.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-19
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The Slanted Screen
Overview: From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen examines the portrayal Asian men in film and television, and how new filmmakers are now re-defining age-old stereotypes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-03
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Five Blind Dates
Overview: More focused on her business than finding love, Lia is forced to go on five blind dates set up by her family and best friend after she is told by a fortune teller that her love life and the success of her tea shop are intertwined.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-12
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A Father's Son
Overview: A Father’s Son is story-spinoff based on author Henry Chang’s crime novel series featuring NYPD Detective Jack Yu. Set in the early '90s when local street gangs terrorized Manhattan’s Chinatown, our story centers on Detective Jack Yu investigating the murder of a teenage boy involved in a turf war. Amidst the broad distrust and racial divide between the Chinatown community and NYPD, our lone lawman searches for a nondescript immigrant family to deliver a shattering message that also brings forth his own conflicted relationship with Jack’s father.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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The Sensei
Overview: Lonely gay teenager, McClain, struggles to fit in with his classmates in a small, conservative Colorado town. After he's severely beaten at school, Karen O'Neil, a martial arts Sensei, secretly trains him to defend himself. When the town discovers their secret, a series of catastrophic events unfolds.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-04
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Chain Reaction
Overview: At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Baby Steps
Overview: Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, and his partner Tate want to have a baby, but the complex world of international surrogacy is further complicated by Danny's well-meaning but extremely meddlesome mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-05-08
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Rapid Fire
Overview: College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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Diablo
Overview: A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-08
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Pali Road
Overview: Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ever existed. As Lily begins to doubt her own sanity, memories of Neil resurface, causing her to encounter unexplainable incidents. While desperately searching for the truth of her past life, she questions her entire existence; but in the end, she discovers the meaning of true love.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-29
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The Gunslingers
Overview: In a town named redemption, reformed gunslinger Keller and mad genius Ben are guided by spiritual leader Jericho towards vindication. While confronting their violent histories, their newfound peace is challenged by violence and revenge.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
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Akeelah and the Bee
Overview: 11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finala. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Arrival
Overview: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Overview: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-14
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The Jade Pendant
Overview: Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-24
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Meditation Park
Overview: A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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The Campaign
Overview: Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-09
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All God's Children Can Dance
Overview: In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend until, one day, he sees a one-eared man who could be his father and decides to follow him around Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-06
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Golden Gate
Overview: A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man and his teenage daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-28
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Skyscraper
Overview: Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-11
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Tigertail
Overview: A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-10
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The Farewell
Overview: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Bad Company
Overview: Troubled teens in a 2nd chance 'bootcamp' program encounter a group of terrorists trying to take out a rural nuclear power plant. Stuck in remote area with no skills or communication to the outside world, the teens find they are the only thing that can stop a nuclear threat.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-14
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Mulan
Overview: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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The Money Pit
Overview: After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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A Sugar & Spice Holiday
Overview: The film follows Chinese American Suzie who draws on her family’s cultural traditions to spice up an old-fashioned Christmas baking competition. Suzie, a rising young architect, returns to her small hometown in Maine for Christmas where her Chinese American family runs the local Lobster Bar. Following the loss of her beloved grandmother who was a renowned baker in their community, Suzie is guilted into following in her grandmother’s footsteps bei entering the local gingerbread house competition. Teaming up with an old high school friend Billy, who grew up to be catch, Suzie must find the right recipes and mix of sugar and spice to win the competition and perhaps find some love in the process.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-13
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The Kid Detective
Overview: A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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Forbidden Nights
Overview: Judith Shapiro's dream has come true. Due to the process of opening to the west in China she has been invited to stay for two years in Shang Sa, Hunan as a school teacher. As soon as she arrives she has to deal with problems such as only cold water to wash, an unlockable door at her room and so on. All these problems are nothing compared to the difficulties she has in understanding chinese social interacting. When she falls in love with one of her students, things are going to get really weird.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-10
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The Chinatown Diner
Overview: In Vancouver's Chinatown district, beatmaker Rikki Meng falls in love with the The Chinatown Diner, a soon-to-be-demolished diner by day and underground hip-hop club by night.
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Original Language: en
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