James Saito
Birthday: 1955-03-06
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to f...
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The Devil's Advocate
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes ge...
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Robot Stories
Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adoptin...
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Hot Dog... The Movie
When a hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro, the snow r...
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Henry Fool
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister....
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Love the Hard Way
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laborat...
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C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sja...
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Life of Pi
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, ...
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The Tomorrow Man
A mysterious spacecraft has crash-landed somewhere in rural Oregon, immediately drawing the attentio...
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Covenant
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of e...
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Silent Cries
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military sold...
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From the Rough
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's...
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Paterno
After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn St...
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The Renegades
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers fro...
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Breathe
Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when tw...
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Beyond the Next Mountain
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters....
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The Two Lives of Carol Letner
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the...
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Wilson
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past....
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently wi...
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first...
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Big Eyes
In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with po...
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Blood & Orchids
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and...
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Brother's Shadow
Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in A...
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Farewell to Manzanar
Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II...
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The Sea of Trees
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a...
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Pearl Harbor
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
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While We're Young
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a...
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Home Alone 3
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefariou...
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Always Be My Maybe
Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attra...
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I Think I Love My Wife
Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not get...
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The Hunted
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of dange...
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Tigertail
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he b...
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Long Shot
Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most infl...
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Girls of the White Orchid
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job...
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Algorithm: BLISS
Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of ...
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The Christmas Bow
When an accident puts her music dreams on hold, a gifted violinist reconnects with an old family fri...
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Love Hard
An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him...
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museu...
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The Atlantis Conspiracy
Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide wheth...
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this ac...
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Breathe
Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when tw...
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