List of the best Tamlyn Tomita movies: Robot Stories(2002), The Joy Luck Club(1993), Come See the Paradise(1990), Picture Bride(1994), Life Tastes Good(1999), The Last Man on Planet Earth(1999), Only the Brave(2006), Vietnam, Texas(1990), Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes(1990), I Will Make You Mine(2020), The Karate Kid Part II(1986), Four Rooms(1995) ... ...
Drama
USA
2002
85 Minutes
Marcia
Tamlyn Tomita James Saito Wai Ching Ho Cindy Cheung Greg Pak Bill Coelius Julienne Hanzelka Kim Sab Shimono Eisa Davis
Four tales: a robot baby as a pre-adoption test, a mother and her dying son's toy robot collection, a lonely robot office worker, and a sculptor contemplating robot-enabled immortality.
Drama
USA|China
1993
138 Minutes
Rosalind Chao Tamlyn Tomita France Nuyen Vivian Wu Andrew McCarthy Kieu Chinh Tsai Chin Lisa Lu Ming-Na Lauren Tom Chao-Li-Chi
mother grandmother daughter immigrant heartwarming touching emotional china san francisco house family history mother/daughter relationship immigration generational divide cross-cultural romance culture clash growing up sacrifice forbidden love transformation
The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
Drama
USA
1990
134 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Tamlyn Tomita Sab Shimono Shizuko Hoshi Stan Egi Ronald Yamamoto Akemi Nishino Naomi Nakano Brady Tsurutani Elizabeth Gilliam Shyree Mezick
soldier projectionist theater owner japanese-american bleak tender sad los angeles seattle manzanar, california new york city world war ii interracial romance interracial conflict imprisonment xenophobia forbidden love wretched excess escape 1940s
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
Drama
Japan|USA
1994
98 Minutes
Kana
Youki Kudoh Akira Takayama Tamlyn Tomita Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Toshirô Mifune Yoko Sugi
wife husband friend boss spokeswoman engaging dreamy moving sad hawaii plantation arranged marriage immigrants worker's rights abusive marriage labor tragic death transformation escape 1910s
Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
USA
1999
88 Minutes
Julie Sado
Sab Shimono Julia Nickson Tamlyn Tomita Greg Watanabe Kelvin Han Yee Tim Lounibos Philip Kan Gotanda Diane Takei
Two San Francisco detectives discover a corpse in an abandoned car. From the dead man's wallet and a tape recorder, they determine the man was a money launderer. The story is then told in ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
1999
96 Minutes
Agent Kara Hastings
Julie Bowen Paul Francis Tamlyn Tomita Veronica Cartwright Cliff De Young L. Scott Caldwell Nancy Hower Martha Hackett Elizabeth Dennehy
scientist man brooding chilling disturbing dystopia future male/female relationship mankind masculinity discovery rivalry temptation future
A scientist (Julie Bowen) in a world with a severe shortage of men illegally creates a male (Paul Francis), designed to be free of violent tendencies.
War, Drama, History
USA
2006
99 Minutes
Mary Takata
Lane Nishikawa Jason Scott Lee Mark Dacascos Yuji Okumoto Tamlyn Tomita Jeff Fahey Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Guy Ecker Greg Watanabe Ken Narasaki Kipp Shiotani
japanese-american american soldier japanese soldier brutal creative emotional engaging fascinating fiery gutsy patriotic raw shocking pearl harbor united states italy north africa pearl harbor world war ii battalion
A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd. In ... See full summary »
Action
USA
1990
93 Minutes
Lan
Robert Ginty Haing S. Ngor Tim Thomerson Kieu Chinh Tamlyn Tomita John Pleshette David Chow Bert Remsen Chi Moui Lo Michele Chan
A priest learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, ... See full summary »
War, Action, Drama
1990
97 Minutes
Sally
Max von Sydow Judd Nelson Kim Miyori Mako Tamlyn Tomita Stan Egi Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Brady Tsurutani Ben Wright Shizuko Hoshi Sab Shimono
soldier doctor priest prisoner of war bleak emotional hiroshima, japan city war zone hiroshima bombing world war ii culture clash radiation death survival fall escape 1940s
A German Jesuit, two U.S. POWs and Japanese citizens share their perspectives of the 1945 atomic bomb and the aftermath.
Drama
USA
2020
80 Minutes
Julia
Lynn Chen Yea-Ming Chen Goh Nakamura Ayako Fujitani Mike Faiola Tamlyn Tomita Joy Osmanski Christy Meyers Jeff Meacham
Three women wrestle with life's difficulties while confronting their past relationships with the same man.
Sports & Fitness, Drama
USA
1986
113 Minutes
Kumiko
Ralph Macchio Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Martin Kove Nobu McCarthy Danny Kamekona Yuji Okumoto Tamlyn Tomita Pat E. Johnson Bruce Malmuth Joey Miyashima Will Hunt
young boy martial arts master old flame bully rival niece amusing endearing rousing okinawa, japan los angeles mourning discipline love triangle reconciliation travel martial arts love transformation rivalry
Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.
Drama
USA
1995
102 Minutes
Wife
Alexandre Rockwell Quentin Tarantino Tim Roth Valeria Golino Jennifer Beals Antonio Banderas Quentin Tarantino Madonna David Proval Tamlyn Tomita
bellhop guest witch gangster child director quirky amusing hollywood, calif. hotel suite room penthouse new year's eve sex witchcraft wager hostage situation magic escape
Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.
Comedy
2014
80 Minutes
Vivian Lew
Matt Letscher Keegan-Michael Key Sunny Mabrey Larry Joe Campbell Jamie Kaler Jason Sklar Randy Sklar Tamlyn Tomita
After winning the California teacher of the year award, Mitch receives a tempting offer that may force him from his job.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2008
97 Minutes
Mrs. Cheung
Jessica Alba Xavier Palud Alessandro Nivola Parker Posey Rade Serbedzija Fernanda Romero Rachel Ticotin Obba Babatundé Danny Mora Chloë Grace Moretz Tamlyn Tomita
violinist doctor sister therapist ghost chilling frightening tense mexico car doctor's office apartment hospital clairvoyance deadly visions supernatural alternate reality corneal transplant blindness mystery
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Action, Adventure
USA
2004
123 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Jake Gyllenhaal Ian Holm Emmy Rossum Sela Ward Dash Mihok Kenneth Welsh Jay O. Sanders Austin Nichols Perry King Nestor Serrano
climatologist son professor meteorologist friend vice president bleak disturbing tense emotional new york city philadelphia library international space station new delhi global disaster climate change survival father/son relationship destruction
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.