James Saito
James Tomio Saito (born March 6, 1955) is an American actor, best known for his physical portrayal of Shredder in the 1990 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; the character was voiced by David McCharen.
Saito also appeared in films including The Devil's Advocate, Home Alone 3, Pearl Harbor, and Die Hard: With a Vengeance. His TV credits include MAS*H, MacGyver, Law & Order, and Sex and the City. Saito has appeared in numerous stage productions, with early career work at the Asian American theatre company East West Players in Los Angeles. On Broadway he has appeared in The King and I, and David Henry Hwang's Golden Child. He won an Obie Award in 2007 for his performance in Julia Cho's Durango at The Public Theater in New York City. He starred as Dr. Chen in the ABC drama Eli Stone.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 25.053 |
| Birthday | 1955-03-06 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | James Tomio Saito, Джеймс Саіто, |
1997
The Devil's Advocate
7.461/5804
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that...
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The Devil's Advocate
2003
Robot Stories
4.833/21
Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a human child; "The Robot Fixer," in which a mot...
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Robot Stories
1984
Hot Dog... The Movie
4.8/64
When a hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro, the snow really starts to fly! But as hot as it is on the mo...
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Hot Dog... The Movie
1998
Henry Fool
6.647/92
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
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Henry Fool
2003
Love the Hard Way
6.3/25
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Ja...
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Love the Hard Way
2012
Life of Pi
7.401/12860
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipw...
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Life of Pi
1993
Silent Cries
1/1
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civili...
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Silent Cries
2013
From the Rough
6/14
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
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From the Rough
1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6.643/1690
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
Big Eyes
6.986/3405
In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one real...
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Big Eyes
2017
Wilson
5.988/347
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
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Wilson
1986
Blood & Orchids
6.5/2
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't wan...
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Blood & Orchids
1976
Farewell to Manzanar
6/1
Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most o...
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Farewell to Manzanar
2016
The Sea of Trees
6.261/481
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
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The Sea of Trees
2001
Pearl Harbor
6.936/6326
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...
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Pearl Harbor
1989
Mortal Sins
1/1
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
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Mortal Sins
2015
While We're Young
5.984/1089
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
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While We're Young
1997
Home Alone 3
5.277/2939
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top...
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Home Alone 3
2019
Always Be My Maybe
6.641/1292
Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds...
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Always Be My Maybe
2007
I Think I Love My Wife
5.3/178
Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling r...
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I Think I Love My Wife
1995
The Hunted
5.701/102
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are...
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The Hunted
2020
Tigertail
6.8/84
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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Tigertail
2019
Long Shot
6.735/2602
Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to mak...
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Long Shot
1983
Girls of the White Orchid
5.2/9
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work...
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Girls of the White Orchid
2020
Algorithm: BLISS
4.462/13
Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to th...
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Algorithm: BLISS
2020
The Christmas Bow
6.9/21
When an accident puts her music dreams on hold, a gifted violinist reconnects with an old family friend, who helps her heal and find love during the h...
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The Christmas Bow
2021
Love Hard
6.955/1433
An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been c...
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Love Hard
1999
The Thomas Crown Affair
6.739/1128
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
2001
The Atlantis Conspiracy
2/3
Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide whether she wants to reconnect with the life she abrupt...
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The Atlantis Conspiracy
1995
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
7.266/5920
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with c...
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1985
Covenant
3.5/2
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group name...
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Covenant
2024
Breathe
5.344/90
Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when two strangers arrive desperate for an oxygenated hav...
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Breathe
1981
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
0/0
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the police to turn one more trick in order to trap th...
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The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1980
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
0/0
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dream...
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
1980
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
5.5/2
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II t...
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
2006
Brother's Shadow
6/5
Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed exile,...
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Brother's Shadow
1988
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
1/1
The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sjambok, a racist South African paramilitary group th...
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C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
1996
The Tomorrow Man
4.6/9
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a g...
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The Tomorrow Man
2018
Paterno
6.238/170
After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challen...
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Paterno
1982
The Renegades
7.6/4
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.
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The Renegades
1981
Beyond the Next Mountain
0/0
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
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