James Saito
Also Known As: James Tomio Saito, Джеймс Саіто
Biography: James Tomio Saito (born March 6, 1955) is an American actor, best known for his physical portrayal of Shredder in the 1990 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; the character was voiced by David McCharen. Saito also appeared in films including The Devil's Advocate, Home Alone 3, Pearl Harbor, and Die Hard: With a Vengeance. His TV credits include MAS*H, MacGyver, Law & Order, and Sex and the City. Saito has appeared in numerous stage productions, with early career work at the Asian American theatre company East West Players in Los Angeles. On Broadway he has appeared in The King and I, and David Henry Hwang's Golden Child. He won an Obie Award in 2007 for his performance in Julia Cho's Durango at The Public Theater in New York City. He starred as Dr. Chen in the ABC drama Eli Stone.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: March 06, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Overview: A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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The Devil's Advocate
Overview: Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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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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Hot Dog... The Movie
Overview: When a hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro, the snow really starts to fly! But as hot as it is on the mountain, it gets even hotter off when the pro's ex-girlfriend sets her eyes on the new blood. Who'll win the competition and the girl? Only a race to end all races can determine which skier can really cut the mustard!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-13
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Henry Fool
Overview: An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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Love the Hard Way
Overview: Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic activities, Jack has a regular scam going, ripping off foreign businessmen with his loyal mate Charlie and two actresses. But his tough guy exterior conceals a secret passion for old books, and he dreams of writing a novel one day. Jack falls hard for Claire's purity and curiosity. An unusual romance develops between them. But Jack is scared of their growing intimacy and rejects Claire, withdrawing into his shell. Abandoned and confused, Claire gradually begins to neglect her studies and embarks on a spiraling course of self-destruction, whilst Jack, who tries to ignore her, concentrates on his criminal activities. However, a sharp detective, named Linda Fox, is following his dodgy tracks.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
Overview: The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sjambok, a racist South African paramilitary group that is working on a nuclear bomb. The American government, too, is investigating Sjambok, using the top-secret spy plane Python Wolf. When one of the members of the C.A.T. Squad is shot down over South Africa during another mission, his squad leader undertakes a rescue operation to bring his friend back home.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-23
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Life of Pi
Overview: The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-20
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The Tomorrow Man
Overview: The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a great rocket-disaster. As he wants to prohibit this, a mad scientist is in his way. But there are more problems: He has to act as a human. Computer-expert Jonathan Driscoll becomes his mentor and tries to help and repair him.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-01
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Covenant
Overview: A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Silent Cries
Overview: In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to face brutal treatment, harsh conditions, and ruthless captors to survive their internment.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-08
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From the Rough
Overview: The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-08
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Paterno
Overview: After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-07
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The Renegades
Overview: In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.
Genres: Drama Crime Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-11
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Breathe
Overview: Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when two strangers arrive desperate for an oxygenated haven.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-04
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Beyond the Next Mountain
Overview: The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
Genres: Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Overview: A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the police to turn one more trick in order to trap the person laundering syndicate money.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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Wilson
Overview: Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
Overview: This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with a pretty Russian gymnast.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-25
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Overview: The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.
Genres: War History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Big Eyes
Overview: In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn't until the Keanes' marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-24
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Blood & Orchids
Overview: Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-23
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Brother's Shadow
Overview: Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed exile, he is forced to return to his Brooklyn family. He soon discovers that his perfect brother, Michael is dead, and he begins trying to take what Michael had- a beautiful wife, adoring son, control of the family furniture business and the love of their gruff father. For Jake, the price of a new life is his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-29
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Farewell to Manzanar
Overview: Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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The Sea of Trees
Overview: In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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Pearl Harbor
Overview: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Genres: War History Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-21
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Mortal Sins
Overview: A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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While We're Young
Overview: An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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Home Alone 3
Overview: 9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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Always Be My Maybe
Overview: Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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I Think I Love My Wife
Overview: Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point that he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki Tru visits his office to get a reference letter, she becomes obsessed with Cooper and they begin a complicated relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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The Hunted
Overview: Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are the targets of assassins hired by the ruthless Kinjo. To survive, Racine must join forces with a powerful samurai and together they will fight the force of evil in an awesome battle rooted in centuries of brutal conflict.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-24
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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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Long Shot
Overview: Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter — much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-02
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Girls of the White Orchid
Overview: In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work at the White Orchid nightclub, she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to client's proposals.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Algorithm: BLISS
Overview: Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to the user.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-02
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The Christmas Bow
Overview: When an accident puts her music dreams on hold, a gifted violinist reconnects with an old family friend, who helps her heal and find love during the holidays.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-08
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Love Hard
Overview: An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been catfished. But the object of her affection actually lives in the same town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up if she pretends to be his own girlfriend for the holidays.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Overview: Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museum with an elaborate diversion. When Catherine Banning, the insurance company's investigator, takes an interest in Crown, he may have met his match, and a complicated back-and-forth game with seductive undertones begins between them.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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The Atlantis Conspiracy
Overview: Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide whether she wants to reconnect with the life she abruptly left behind. When a mystery stemming from a suicide draws her in, she and two friends, a young bookie and a cynical federal agent, seek to uncover the truth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Overview: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-19
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Breathe
Overview: Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when two strangers arrive desperate for an oxygenated haven.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-04
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