James Shigeta, a productive and spearheading Asian-American performing artist whose 50-year profession incorporates the films "Hardcore" and "Blossom Drum Song," passed on in his slumber in Los Angeles on Monday, his executor said. He was 81.
"It is with incredible misery that I report the loss of my long-term companion and customer," Shigeta's executor said. "James was the greatest East Asian U.s. star the nation had known. ... The world has lost an alternate magnificent on-screen character, tragically I lost a dear companion."
While he's well-known for co-featuring with Bruce Willis in 1988's "Stalwart," in which Shigeta played the official Joseph Takagi, his work extends crosswise over TV and film, and he is viewed as one of the first Asian-American performers to climb to conspicuousness.
As per Variety, Shigeta was conceived in Hawaii and happened to study acting at New York University before joining the Marines. His wide screen debut accompanied the 1959 wrongdoing dramatization "The Crimson Kimono," in which he played an analyst named Joe Kojaku. The one year from now, the Golden Globes gave the on-screen character the "new star of the year" grant.
He happened to land prominent parts in movies like "Scaffold to the Sun" (1961), "Halfway" (1976), and the Oscar-designated adjustment of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Blossom Drum Song" (1961). As indicated by The Hollywood Reporter, Shigeta, who was additionally an artist, did all his own particular singing in that film. More youthful eras were acquainted with his voice in the 1998 energized film "Mulan," in which Shigeta played General Li.
The on-screen character additionally cut a profession for himself in the TV business, showing up in arrangement, for example, "Perry Mason," "The Love Boat," "Hawaii Five-O," "Dream Island" and "Little House on the Prairie."
His last credited part was in the 2009 drama film, "The People I've Slept With."
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