Tamlyn Tomita
Also Known As: Tamlyn Naomi Tomita , 富田谭玲, タムリン・トミタ, تمیلین تومیتا, تاملین تومیتا
Biography: Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born January 27, 1966) is a Japanese American actress. She's best known for her roles as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II and Waverly Jong in The Joy Lucky Club, as well as Commodore Oh on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, Allegra Aoki on ABC's The Good Doctor, Sandra Abe on the Epix series Berlin Station, Tamiko Watanabe on Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle, Noshiko Yukimura on the MTV series Teen Wolf, Jun Kazama in Tekken, Janet Tokada in The Day After Tomorrow, and Kimberly Shiroma on UPN's The Burning Zone.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
Birthday: January 27, 1966
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Gender: Female
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Four Rooms
Overview: It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-09
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The Day After Tomorrow
Overview: After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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Wendy... Uh... What's Her Name
Overview: On February 4, 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. A month later, SLA members and Hearst robbed a bank in San Francisco. After the telecast shootout with police in Los Angeles, two remaining SLA members and Hearst fled to rural Pennsylvania, where they met Wendy Yoshimura. Wendy was eluding authorities who had indicted her on weapons and explosives charges in 1972. After 3 years on the run, Wendy was captured with Hearst in a San Francisco apartment, where the FBI threatened to "blow Wendy's head off". She was kept in isolation for 40 days, then jailed for 3 months until the Wendy Yoshimura Fair Trial Committee came to her aid.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-05
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Robot Stories
Overview: Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a human child; "The Robot Fixer," in which a mother tries to connect with her dying son; "Machine Love," in which an office worker android learns that he, too, needs love; and "Clay," in which an old sculptor must choose between natural death and digital immortality.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Overview: The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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Only The Brave
Overview: A searing portrait of war and prejudice, ‘Only the Brave’ takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII – the Japanese-American 100th/442nd. In 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, overnight Japanese Americans were put into internment camps for the duration of the war. Determined to prove their loyalty, 1400 Japanese Americans successfully petitioned the government to serve becoming the 100th Infantry Battalion. They were sent to North Africa, Italy and finally France were they performed an impossibly-dangerous rescue of the Texas 36th Division. During their two years of combat these men received an unparalleled 21 Medals of Honor, 9,486 Purple Hearts, 8 Presidential Citations, 53 Distinguished Service Crosses, 588 Silver Stars and 5,200 Bronze stars – making them the most decorated unit of their size in American military history. This is their story.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-23
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The Right Mom
Overview: While writing an article about an abused boy, a woman fights for protect him after she uncovers shocking details.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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The Eye
Overview: Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Tekken
Overview: In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of the civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. In order to placate the seething masses of this dystopia, Mishima sponsors Tekken, a tournament in which fighters battle until only one is left standing.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-20
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Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Overview: The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles Bank. The NSA with the assistance of a puzzle slover Code Name Jane Doe becomes involved and solves the mystery.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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The Joy Luck Club
Overview: Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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Come See the Paradise
Overview: In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Vietnam Texas
Overview: A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the Vietnamese people, particularly among the fishing community in which they are trying to work. Setting out to right the wrongs, the priest tends to use more fisticuffs than friendly, priestly persuasion.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Vanishing Son IV
Overview: After the death of his brother Wago, Jian-wa Chang now roams America's countryside while looking for his place in the world. He is hit by a van of two college students. Jian is taken in and nursed by Megan, a secluded artist. Jian is also befriended by the ghost of brother Wago. Wago must act as an angel to Jian-wa to gain acceptance into heaven. Meanwhile, the students from the hit and run plan to kill Jian-wa so he doesn't talk to the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
Overview: A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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Nomads
Overview: Susan is a filmmaker working on a documentary about subway suicides at Mexico City. Roberto is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who cleans windows in New York. Roberto meets Susan and they start hanging out, sharing their own experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-18
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To Heal a Nation
Overview: The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, he begins to find a new life for himself, and a personal goal when he agrees to begin a determined campaign to raise funds for a veteran's memorial.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-29
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Walking Shadow
Overview: Spenser attends a play at his girlfriend's insistence to meet a director who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a hale of fake arrows is suddenly killed by a real arrow from a crossbow. This launches Spencer into an investigation of everyone involved with the theatrical company and leads him up against a Chinese mobster, who warns Spencer to quit questioning his wife, one of the theater's patrons. However, everything changes when the mobster is found beaten to death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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Ultraman: Rising
Overview: A star athlete reluctantly returns home to take over his father's duties as Ultraman, shielding Tokyo from giant monsters as he becomes a legendary hero.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-14
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The Last Man on Planet Earth
Overview: During a war with Afghanistan, a weapon called the "Y-bomb" was used, which resulted in the deaths of 97% of the world's men. Feeling that they were better off without males, the women of Earth decided to outlaw men because they were too violent. 20 years later, scientist Hope Chase, fearing for the future of the species, conducts a cloning experiment to produce a new male of the species, whom she names Adam. When Adam reaches maturity, he soon finds himself on the run from the FBI, and hiding out with small rebel bands of the last remaining men.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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Awesome Asian Bad Guys
Overview: An action/comedy about two offbeat filmmakers reuniting the Asian bad guys from action films from the 80s and 90s, to carry off one impossible mission.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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Teacher of the Year
Overview: Surrounded by the eccentric faculty of Truman High School, Mitch Carter wins the California Teacher of the Year award and immediately receives a tempting offer that may force him to leave his job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-19
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The Killing Jar
Overview: Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Operation Marriage
Overview: Two young siblings try to get their lesbian moms married before Proposition 8 passes in California.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-27
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Picture Bride
Overview: Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Hiroshima Maiden
Overview: "You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his family's home to Miyeko, a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm, her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the war's end. But Johnny, who also resents Miyeko at first, becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance. Only then can the scars begin to heal.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Runaway Virus
Overview: Two virus experts track down contagious people across the world. But it's only a matter of time before L.A. is exposed to the virus.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-29
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Why Am I Doing This?
Overview: Lester is trying be the next Louis CK… except everyone wants him to be Chris Rock. Tony is trying to be the next Tom Hanks… except everyone wants him to be the Chinese delivery boy. Amber thinks she should be the next Jennifer Lawrence… but isn’t. Against all odds, they chase the Hollywood dream, while juggling inter-racial relationships, crazy families and the feeling that they're never going to make it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-09
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Vanishing Son II
Overview: The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gangfight which involved his brother Wago. Jian-wa travels to the south and finds that hatred comes in all forms as a group of racist whites feud with harmless Vietnamese fishermen. Jian-wa decides to side with the Vietnamese and help them defend themselves. Back in Los Angeles, Wago is enjoying his new life as a gangster.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-23
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The Good Neighbor
Overview: Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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Daddy
Overview: Colin McCormack thinks he has it all - a great job, a steady stream of hot younger guys, and a best friend whose devotion he takes for granted. But when a charming and mercurial intern sweeps him off his feet, Colin sees a chance for something more: A family of his own. What he discovers instead is a shattering secret that may cost Colin everything -- and everyone -- he holds dear.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
Overview: The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-01
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Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
Overview: In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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The Unbidden
Overview: The Unbidden is a thriller about four women confronted by a mysterious young man who knows a dark secret from their past.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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The Karate Kid Part II
Overview: Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his former best friend turned vengeful rival. Sato is bent on a fight to the death, even if it means the destruction of their village. Daniel finds his own love in Yukia's niece, Kumiko, and his own enemy in Sato's nephew, the vicious Chozen. Now, far away from the tournaments, cheering crowds and safety of home, Daniel will face his greatest challenge ever when the cost of honor is life itself.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-18
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Real Artists
Overview: In the near future, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job, but, when she discovers the truth of the modern 'creative' process, she must make a hard choice about her passion for film.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Overview: The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-06
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Hawaiian Dream
Overview: Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking pakalolo – marijuana – under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well. When they get busted by the chief of police, they're forced to make a deal and and help get a local crime boss masquerading as a benevolent celebrity arrested.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-29
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Hundred Percent
Overview: Three Asian men live in L.A. Isaac is a romantic coffee shop worker, who waits for the woman of his dreams, and loses his balance after meeting a femme fatale called Thaise. Slim is a Rastafarian smoking pot all the time, who is trying to elude a local mobster. Troy is an actor, who has to choose between his career and his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Touch
Overview: At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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The Living Worst
Overview: Weezy (Louise) is a cerebral thirty-something soon to be married and unable to feel anything more than just fine about that. Weezy's girlfriends throw her an unwelcome bachelorette party but the night ends up taking a very unlikely turn when Weez makes a connection with Edie, an out-of-town visitor who manages to crash the celebration. The party goes way off course, taking Weez's sense of self with it...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-09
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The Real Miyagi
Overview: The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-20
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I Will Make You Mine
Overview: Three women wrestle with life's difficulties while confronting their past relationships with the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-28
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Living Out Loud
Overview: Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. Judith stews, plans, plots and fantasizes, but she can't decide what to do with her life until she goes out to a night club to see singer Liz Bailey, who is full of advice on life and love. While out on the town, Judith is suddenly kissed by a total stranger, which opens her eyes to new possibilities... which is when she notices Pat, the elevator operator in her building.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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The Mikado Project
Overview: A struggling Asian American Theater company decides to put on a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-20
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Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
Overview: Raven is a ninja, a former member of the Black Dragons clan and also a former Special Forces agent, living in Hawaii, helping those in trouble and searching for his long-lost son while avoiding assassins sent to kill him.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-23
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Requiem
Overview: A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-07
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The Joy Luck Club 2
Overview: In the sequel, the mothers become grandmothers and the daughters become mothers in their own right, introducing a new generation exploring their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Overview: An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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