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Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Character: Aunt
Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
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My Husband Is Missing (1978)
Character: Vice Consul
A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Canadian correspondent on the trail of a human interest story.
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The Wash (1988)
Character: Kiyoko
An old, bigoted Japanese-American traditionalist is unable to reconcile the needs of his wife and two daughters with his own conservative view on life, which forces them to leave him in pursuit of their own happiness.
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Dangerous Company (1982)
Character: Mrs. Hikaru
The true story of Ray Johnson, a convict who spent most of his life in and out of prison until he finally decided to turn his life around.
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
Character: Nurse Yama
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
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M. Butterfly (1993)
Character: Comrade Chin
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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Sylvester (1985)
Character: Mrs. Daniels
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
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The Last Ninja (1983)
Character: Miyako Sakura
A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.
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Hito Hata: Raise the Banner (1980)
Character: Mrs. Inada
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
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Visas and Virtue (1997)
Character: Narrator (Elderly Mrs. Sugihara)
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
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Baby Sister (1983)
Character: Mrs. Chang
Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.
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Wataridori: Birds of Passage (1976)
Character: narrator
This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history through their personal memories.
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Come See the Paradise (1990)
Character: Mrs. Kawamura
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Character: Sayuri Narration (voice)
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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