
Birthday:
10-31-1903
Deathday:
10-29-1984 (80 years)
Birthplace:
Wailuku, Hawaii
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Flower Drum Song
Act like Madame Ten Fong
event1961 star_border 6.1
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A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Sayonara
Act like Terukosan
event1957 star_border 6.6
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Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Secret of the Wastelands
Act like May Soong
event1941
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Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
Target Hong Kong
Act like Lao Shan
event1953 star_border 5
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Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
Klondike Annie
Act like Fah Wong
event1936 star_border 6.4
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A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Mad Holiday
Act like Li Tai
event1936 star_border 6
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A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
China
Act like Tai Shen
event1943 star_border 6.8
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Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
Peking Express
Act like Li Elu
event1951 star_border 8
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A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
Flight to Hong Kong
Act like Mama Lin
event1956 star_border 6.6
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On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.
Night Plane from Chungking
Act like Madame Wu
event1943 star_border 6
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Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
The Painted Veil
Act like Amah
event1934 star_border 6.5
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The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
China Seas
Act like Yu-Lan
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
The Good Earth
Act like Aunt
event1937 star_border 6.3
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China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Big Jim McLain
Act like Mrs. Namaka
event1952 star_border 4.9
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House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Act like Nora Hung
event1955 star_border 6
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A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
In Harm's Way
Act like Tearful Woman
event1965 star_border 6.6
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A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Soldier of Fortune
Act like Dak Lai
event1955 star_border 5.9
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An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.
Hawaii Five-O
Act like Servant (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7.1
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Magnum, P.I.
Act like Old Woman (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 7.3
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A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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