James Saito

James Saito

1955-03-06 Los Angeles, California, USA 42 Credits

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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Breathe

Breathe

2024

as Man

5.7
Acting

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

Breathe

2024

as The Man

5.7
Acting

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

Love Hard

2021

as Bob Lin

6.9
Acting

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

The Christmas Bow

2020

as Grandpa Joe

6.9
Acting

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

Algorithm: BLISS

2020

as Dr. Stein

4.2
Acting

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

Tigertail

2020

as Hank

6.7
Acting

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

Always Be My Maybe

2019

as Harry

6.6
Acting

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

Long Shot

2019

as Minister Kishido

6.7
Acting

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

Paterno

2018

as Doctor

6.2
Acting

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

Wilson

Wilson

2017

as Warren Kudo

6.0
Acting

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

The Sea of Trees

The Sea of Trees

2016

as Dr. Takahashi

6.2
Acting

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

While We're Young

2015

as Dr. Nagato

6.0
Acting

An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

Big Eyes

Big Eyes

2014

as Judge

7.0
Acting

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

From the Rough

2013

as Won-Sik

6.1
Acting

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

Life of Pi

2012

as Older Insurance Investigator

7.4
Acting

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

I Think I Love My Wife

2007

as Mr. Yuni

5.4
Acting

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

Brother's Shadow

2006

as Line Boss

4.9
Acting

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

Robot Stories

2003

as Roy

5.0
Acting

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

Love the Hard Way

2002

as Akiri

6.3
Acting

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

Pearl Harbor

2001

as Japanese Aide

6.9
Acting

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

The Atlantis Conspiracy

2001

as Police Captain

2.0
Acting

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

The Thomas Crown Affair

1999

as Paul Cheng

6.7
Acting

Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museum with an elaborate diversion. When Catherine Bann...

Henry Fool

Henry Fool

1998

as Mr. Deng

6.6
Acting

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

Home Alone 3

Home Alone 3

1997

as Chinese Mob Boss

5.3
Acting

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

The Devil's Advocate

1997

as Takaori Osumi

7.5
Acting

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

The Tomorrow Man

1996

as Dr. Lorechi

4.6
Acting

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

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995

as Korean Proprietor

7.3
Acting

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

The Hunted

1995

as Nemura

5.7
Acting

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

Silent Cries

1993

as Japanese Soldier

1.0
Acting

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990

as The Shredder / Oroko Saki

6.7
Acting

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

Mortal Sins

1989

as Park Sung

3.0
Acting

A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.

C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf

C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf

1988

1.0
Acting

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

Blood & Orchids

1986

as Halehone

6.5
Acting

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

Covenant

1985

as Cabbie

3.0
Acting

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

Hot Dog... The Movie

1984

as Kendo Yamamoto

4.8
Acting

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

Girls of the White Orchid

1983

as Officer #1

5.2
Acting

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

The Renegades

1982

as Khan

6.4
Acting

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

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

1981

as Professor

Acting

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

Beyond the Next Mountain

1981

Acting

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

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

1980

as Lt. Tatsuo Yamato

5.7
Acting

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

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

1980

Acting

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

Farewell to Manzanar

1976

as Richard Wakatsuki

6.0
Acting

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...