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re: James Shigeta passed away, age 81
Posted on 7/29/14 at 8:13 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 7/29/14 at 8:13 pm to Ace Midnight
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Really good in Midway - gave a relatively early humanized face of the enemy for U.S. audiences - 35 years after Pearl Harbor.
agree, most of the Asian actors in Midway turned in top notch performances, him, Pat Morita, John Fujioka Dale Ishimoto, Robert Ito, and Toshirô Mifune really helped to make a great movie.
They say Mifune who played Yamamoto was such a stickler for detail he refused to wear the first uniform they provided and sent back to Japan for an exact replica.
That movie had a few smallish stars like Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook and of course Heston, but Shigeta really turned in one of the top performances in the film.
This post was edited on 7/29/14 at 8:23 pm
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Posted on 7/29/14 at 10:31 pm to Jagd Tiger
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agree, most of the Asian actors in Midway turned in top notch performances, him, Pat Morita, John Fujioka Dale Ishimoto, Robert Ito, and Toshirô Mifune really helped to make a great movie.
Absolutely - until Letters from Iwo Jima, Midway and, perhaps, Tora! Tora! Tora! were the only big budget American films to offer the Japanese some voice and dignity.
Midway and A Bridge Too Far - the 2 big color WWII epics of the 1970s have aged very well and are stuffed full of big name actors.
I like Shigeta in most things - his many, many television appearances, for example. I wasn't much for Flower Drum Song, but it is a fun watch to see him and Jack Soo, so young, in a musical.
Had a film like The Last Samurai been made 15, 20 years earlier, he could have easily carried off the Katsumoto role very well. In many ways Ken Watanabe has taken up Shigeta's banner, at least on the film side.
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