Tamlyn Tomita Filmography

Born:: January 27, 1966 in Okinawa, Japan
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born in Okinawa, Japan, actress Tamlyn Tomita performed on-stage in Los Angeles before making her film debut in The Karate Kid Part II in 1986 as Ralph Macchio's love interest, Kumiko. Soap opera appearances and supporting roles followed, as well as a few made-for-TV movies about Hiroshima. In...Read More

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Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Synopsis: Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't is one of several Hallmark Channel TV-movies starring Lea Thompson as suburban housewife and mom Kathy Davis (Lea Thompson), who unbeknownst to her family occasionally moonlights as an undercover special agent and "problem solver" for the NSA. When the Read More

2005
The Day After Tomorrow

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather Read More

5/28/04
Robot Stories

Actors: Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Wai Ching Ho, Cindy Cheung, Greg Pak

Synopsis: Greg Pak directs Robot Stories, a feature film made up of four separate vignettes set in the near future. In "My Robot Baby," Maria (Tamlyn Tomita) and Roy (James Saito) must take care of a robot baby before they can adopt a real one. In "The Robot Fixer," a car accident puts Wilson in a coma. His Read More

2/13/04
Walking Shadow: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts, Christina Moore

2001
Runaway Virus

Actors: Paige Turco, Jason Beghe, Larry Drake, Kenneth Mars, Richard Cox

Synopsis: Based on "The Dead Zone," a magazine article by Malcolm Gladwell, the made-for-TV Runaway Virus pits a team of dedicated scientists against a deadly virus. A particularly nasty form of influenza, which leaves its victims with bloody noses and blackened feet before their inexorable demise, has Read More

2000
Life Tastes Good

Actors: Sab Shimono, Julia Nickson, Tamlyn Tomita, Greg Watanabe, Kelvin Han Yee

Synopsis: Asian-American playwright Philip Kan Gotanda made his directorial debut with this unusual crime drama. When two San Francisco police detectives find a very dead body in an abandoned car, a bit of digging reveals the man was minor-league criminal Harry Sado (Sab Shimono), who left behind his story Read More

1999
The Last Man on Planet Earth

Actors: Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Julie Bowen, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Women are in charge of a futuristic society were almost all of the globe's male population have been decimated due to biological warfare. In hopes of restocking the population, so to speak, a top scientist creates a new type of male genetically unable to commit acts of violence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Soundman

Actors: Wayne Pere, Eliane Chappuis, William Forsythe, Wes Studi, Nick Stahl

Synopsis: Steven Widi Ho directed this drama about sound mixer Igby Walters (Wayne Pere), who's working on a western-style Hamlet titled Dead Cowboys. After Igby encounters young violinist Juliet (Eliane Chappuis), he attempts to score with a promise of film score work. Can he deliver on this promise? Shown Read More

1998
Hundred Percent

Actors: Darion Basco, Dustin Nguyen, Garrett Wang, Tamlyn Tomita, Adam Collis

Synopsis: Eric Koyanagi made his feature directorial debut with the triple plot threads weaving throughout this comedy. Romantic coffeeshop worker Isaac (Dustin Nguyen), hoping for his ideal woman, is taken aback by leather-lady Thaise (Tamlyn Tomita). Actor Troy (Garrett Wang), fed up with casting Read More

1998
Killing Jar

Actors: Brett Cullen, Tamlyn Tomita, Wes Studi, Brion James, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: A man's past comes back to haunt him -- literally -- in this thriller. After surviving a traumatic auto accident that took the life of a close friend and injured his brother, young Michael Sanford was sent off to a boarding school and didn't see his hometown in California's Sonoma Valley for close Read More

1997
Picture Bride

Actors: Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Toshiro Mifune

Synopsis: The struggles of a young Japanese who leaves her home to marry an stranger are chronicled in this historical drama based on true stories. Picture brides were Japanese women contracted to marry Japanese sugar-cane laborers working in Hawaii. The couple would agree to marry based on the photos they Read More

1995
Requiem

1995
Four Rooms

Actors: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Jennifer Beals, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven Read More

1995
Murder, She Wrote: Death in Hawaii

Synopsis: In Hawaii, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is the guest of Matt Kinkaid (Ken Howard), patriarch of a powerful and influential island family. At present, Kinkaid is supervising the political campaign of his son Jeff (Ted W. Henning) in an upcoming senatorial election. The younger Kinkaid's opponent Read More

1994
Vanishing Son 2

1994
Vanishing Son 4

1994
The Joy Luck Club

Actors: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of late-middle-aged Read More

1993
Babylon 5: The Gathering

Actors: Michael O'Hare, Tamlyn Tomita, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas, Peter Jurasik

Synopsis: This two-part pilot episode for Babylon 5 was originally telecast as a single two-hour TV movie on February 22, 1993 (the "official" release date of March 8 refers to the film's Chicago TV premiere). Like the subsequent series, "The Gathering" takes place in the 23rd century, and was set on Read More

1993
Come See the Paradise

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi

Synopsis: One of the few American films to deal with the tragic story of the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, Come See the Paradise opens in the late 1930s, as Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) is working as a union organizer in New York City. Jack finds himself on the wrong side of the law after Read More

12/23/90
Vietnam, Texas

Actors: Robert Ginty, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Tim Thomerson, Kieu Chinh, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: From a script by Tom Badal and C. Courtney Joyner comes this film about a man whose wartime experiences continue to affect his life back in the U.S. Robert Ginty, a veteran low-budget actor who specializes in portraying drifters and loners, directs himself as Thomas McCain, an American GI who Read More

6/1/90
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

Synopsis: The made-for-television Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes recounts the August, 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima through the eyes of a number of survivors, including Japanese soldiers, citizens, and American prisoners of war. The film is partly based on Michihiko Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary. ~ Stephen Read More

1990
To Heal a Nation

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: To Heal a Nation is the true story of Jan Scruggs (Eric Roberts), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. In 1979, Scruggs, employed by the US Department of Labor, becomes obsessed with the dream of erecting a monument to those who died in Vietnam. In pursuit of this dream, Scruggs and his fellow Read More

1988
Hiroshima Maiden

Synopsis: Victory in war doesn't end prejudice. That idea is enacted in the 1988 release Hiroshima Maiden. Ten years after the end of World War II, suburbs are becoming popular as baby boomers seek normalcy. While race riots are being raged in the South, middle-class America deals with a subtler form of Read More

1988
The Karate Kid Part II

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Nobu McCarthy, Danny Kamekona, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1984 surprise hit The Karate Kid reunites Ralph Macchio as high-schooler Danny and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita as Danny's martial-arts mentor Miyagi. Picking up where the first film left off, The Karate Kid Part II finds Danny and Miyagi making an emergency trip to Okinawa, where Read More

6/20/86