Biography
​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 theat...
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Complete Filmography

Breathe
2024
as Man
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...

Breathe
2024
as The Man
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...

Love Hard
2021
as Bob Lin
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...

The Christmas Bow
2020
as Grandpa Joe
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...

Algorithm: BLISS
2020
as Dr. Stein
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...

Tigertail
2020
as Hank
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.

Always Be My Maybe
2019
as Harry
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 world...

Long Shot
2019
as Minister Kishido
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...

Paterno
2018
as Doctor
After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challen...

Wilson
2017
as Warren Kudo
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.

The Sea of Trees
2016
as Dr. Takahashi
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.

While We're Young
2015
as Dr. Nagato
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

Big Eyes
2014
as Judge
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...

From the Rough
2013
as Won-Sik
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.

Life of Pi
2012
as Older Insurance Investigator
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...

I Think I Love My Wife
2007
as Mr. Yuni
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...

Brother's Shadow
2006
as Line Boss
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,...

Robot Stories
2003
as Roy
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...

Love the Hard Way
2002
as Akiri
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...

Pearl Harbor
2001
as Japanese Aide
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 ...

The Atlantis Conspiracy
2001
as Police Captain
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...

The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
as Paul Cheng
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museum with an elaborate diversion. When Catherine Bann...

Henry Fool
1998
as Mr. Deng
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

Home Alone 3
1997
as Chinese Mob Boss
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...

The Devil's Advocate
1997
as Takaori Osumi
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...

The Tomorrow Man
1996
as Dr. Lorechi
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...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
as Korean Proprietor
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...

The Hunted
1995
as Nemura
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...

Silent Cries
1993
as Japanese Soldier
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civili...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990
as The Shredder / Oroko Saki
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.

Mortal Sins
1989
as Park Sung
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.

C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
1988
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...

Blood & Orchids
1986
as Halehone
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...

Covenant
1985
as Cabbie
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...

Hot Dog... The Movie
1984
as Kendo Yamamoto
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...

Girls of the White Orchid
1983
as Officer #1
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 ...

The Renegades
1982
as Khan
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.

The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981
as Professor
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...

Beyond the Next Mountain
1981
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980
as Lt. Tatsuo Yamato
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...

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
1980
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dream...

Farewell to Manzanar
1976
as Richard Wakatsuki
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...