Sab Shimono

Sab Shimono

Birthday: 1937-07-31

Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, United States

Biography: Saburo "Sab" Shimono (born July 31, 1937) is an American actor. He began his career on stage on Broadway and in regional theaters, starring in musicals like Mame, Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen, and Pacific Overtures. He has appeared in dozens of films, including Midway (1976), Gung Ho (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), Waterworld (1995), Southland Tales (2006), and Old Dogs (2009). He also has extensive television credits including episodes of M*A*SH, Quincy, M.E., Remington Steele, The X-Files, Seinfeld, Mad Men, and The Blacklist. Shimono's voice roles include Uncle Chan in Jackie Chan Adventures, the Emperor in Samurai Jack, and Monk Gyatso in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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Operation Othello
Operation Othello

A futuristic adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello set in the world of an elite naval special force's ...

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Ice Planet
Ice Planet

In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military aca...

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Southland Tales
Southland Tales

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social,...

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Rabbit Test
Rabbit Test

Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world...

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Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. ...

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The Shadow
The Shadow

Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to...

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Gung Ho
Gung Ho

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...

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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a ...

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3 Ninjas Kick Back
3 Ninjas Kick Back

During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in ...

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Ben 10: Race Against Time
Ben 10: Race Against Time

Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien ...

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Come See the Paradise
Come See the Paradise

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job...

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Suture
Suture

Brothers Vincent and Clay meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how ...

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The Wash
The Wash

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who i...

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Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise

Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character. Adventurer Modesty B...

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Silent Cries
Silent Cries

In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military sold...

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Half Kenneth
Half Kenneth

1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Cauca...

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The Activated Man
The Activated Man

After Ors Gabriel loses his beloved dog to cancer, the shock from the trauma produces strange vision...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japa...

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Blind Date
Blind Date

When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingl...

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Old Dogs
Old Dogs

Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan publi...

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Family Gathering
Family Gathering

A dysfunctional family comedy centered on an extended Asian American family of a certain age celebra...

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The Challenge
The Challenge

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole ...

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The Hospital
The Hospital

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his perso...

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When Hell Was in Session
When Hell Was in Session

This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held i...

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The Sensei
The Sensei

Lonely gay teenager, McClain, struggles to fit in with his classmates in a small, conservative Color...

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Paradise Road
Paradise Road

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being impri...

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Nice Dreams
Nice Dreams

Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thorou...

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Americanese
Americanese

Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let g...

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Where the Toys Come From
Where the Toys Come From

Two curious toys, Peepers and Zoom, wonder about how they become toys. Aided by Robin, their equally...

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Robot Stories
Robot Stories

Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adoptin...

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Pacific Overtures
Pacific Overtures

In 1853 Japan, the story follows the Westernization of Japan, mainly through the story of Kayama, a ...

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Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

A small boy is sent away from his village. He is to be trained as a samurai warrior and return to fi...

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The Watcher
The Watcher

Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clea...

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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, America...

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Mandrake
Mandrake

Mandrake, a famous magician, and his assistant, Lothar, come to the aid of an amusement-park owner w...

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Waterworld
Waterworld

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautif...

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The Big Hit
The Big Hit

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-en...

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The Arcadian
The Arcadian

The Arcadian follows "The Lighthouse Keeper" on a story of revenge and redemption in a strange futur...

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Parades
Parades

An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over...

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Pueblo
Pueblo

Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatme...

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Midway
Midway

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...

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Loving
Loving

Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Gra...

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Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for ye...

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Par 6
Par 6

A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothe...

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Life Tastes Good
Life Tastes Good

A quirky tale that brings together a murder, poisonous mushrooms and a mysterious woman to reveal th...

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