Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sab Shimono (born July 31, 1937) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows in character roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sab Shimono, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Activated Man
2024
as Mr. Hideyoshi
After Ors Gabriel loses his beloved dog to cancer, the shock from the trauma produces strange vision projections that force Ors to wrestle with two po...

Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
2017
as The Emperor (voice)
A small boy is sent away from his village. He is to be trained as a samurai warrior and return to fight the evil shapeshifter, Aku, who has wreaked ha...

The Watcher
2016
as Wendell
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and t...

Family Gathering
2013
A dysfunctional family comedy centered on an extended Asian American family of a certain age celebrating the same sex marriage of Hiro and Bud; homoph...

The Arcadian
2011
as Moto
The Arcadian follows "The Lighthouse Keeper" on a story of revenge and redemption in a strange future world reminiscent of wild 1970s pop. The visual ...

Old Dogs
2009
as Yoshiro Nishamura
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge busines...

Half Kenneth
2009
as Takahiro
1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become compl...

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Mr. Takagawa (voice)
The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black S...

The Sensei
2008
as Taki Nakano
Lonely gay teenager, McClain, struggles to fit in with his classmates in a small, conservative Colorado town. After he's severely beaten at school, Ka...

Ben 10: Race Against Time
2008
as Old Man
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

Southland Tales
2007
as Hideo Takehashi
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santar...

Americanese
2006
as Wood Ding
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling frien...

Robot Stories
2003
as John
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...

Par 6
2002
as Mr. Watsabi
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.

Ice Planet
2001
as Karteez Rumla
In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military academy is attacked by an unknown and unstoppable ali...

The Big Hit
1998
as Jiro Nishi
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassin...

Paradise Road
1997
as Colonel Hirota
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during Wor...

Waterworld
1995
as Elder
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floati...

The Shadow
1994
as Dr. Roy Tam
Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom u...

3 Ninjas Kick Back
1994
as Koga
During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the m...

Suture
1993
as Dr. Max Shinoda
Brothers Vincent and Clay meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, Vince is a...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
1993
as Lord Norinaga
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming...

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

Come See the Paradise
1990
as Mr. 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 ...

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived ...

Presumed Innocent
1990
as 'Painless' Kumagai
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...

The Wash
1988
as Sadao
Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the ...

Blind Date
1987
as Mr. Yakamoto
When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on...

Gung Ho
1986
as Saito
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating...

Where the Toys Come From
1983
as Kenji
Two curious toys, Peepers and Zoom, wonder about how they become toys. Aided by Robin, their equally curious owner, Zoom and Peepers visit a toy museu...

The Challenge
1982
as Toshio Yoshida
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between t...

Conan the Barbarian
1982
as Subotai (voice, uncredited)
A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of ...

Modesty Blaise
1982
as Weng
Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character. Adventurer Modesty Blaise and knife thrower Willie Garvin - retired ex...

Nice Dreams
1981
as Oriental Bus Boy
Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky comedy. The outrageous, permanently spa...

When Hell Was in Session
1979
as Cao
This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation,...

Mandrake
1979
as Ho
Mandrake, a famous magician, and his assistant, Lothar, come to the aid of an amusement-park owner who is being blackmailed by a madman who is killing...

Rabbit Test
1978
as Chinese Leader
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

Pacific Overtures
1976
as Manjiro
In 1853 Japan, the story follows the Westernization of Japan, mainly through the story of Kayama, a samurai, and Manjiro, a fisherman. The lives of bo...

Midway
1976
as Lt. Tomonaga
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Pueblo
1973
as North Korean Officer
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of capti...

Parades
1972
as Togo
An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over to military authorities. He is court-martialled a...

The Hospital
1971
as Operating Room Staff Member (uncredited)
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospit...

Loving
1970
as Byron
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful il...

Operation Othello
N/A
as Brabantino
A futuristic adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello set in the world of an elite naval special force's unit.