Sab Shimono
Saburo "Sab" Shimono (born July 31, 1937) is an American actor. He began his career on stage on Broadway and in regional theaters, starring in musicals like Mame, Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen, and Pacific Overtures. He has appeared in dozens of films, including Midway (1976), Gung Ho (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), Waterworld (1995), Southland Tales (2006), and Old Dogs (2009). He also has extensive television credits including episodes of M*A*SH, Quincy, M.E., Remington Steele, The X-Files, Seinfeld, Mad Men, and The Blacklist. Shimono's voice roles include Uncle Chan in Jackie Chan Adventures, the Emperor in Samurai Jack, and Monk Gyatso in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7836 |
| Birthday | 1937-07-31 |
| Place of Birth | Sacramento, California, United States |
| Also Known As | Saburo Shimono, 夏野萨博, |
2019
Operation Othello
0/0
A futuristic adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello set in the world of an elite naval special force's unit.
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Operation Othello
2001
Ice Planet
4.6/18
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...
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Ice Planet
2007
Southland Tales
5.2/597
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...
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Southland Tales
1978
Rabbit Test
4.2/20
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
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Rabbit Test
1990
Presumed Innocent
6.807/800
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...
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Presumed Innocent
1994
The Shadow
6.079/561
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...
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The Shadow
1986
Gung Ho
6.043/211
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating...
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Gung Ho
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
7.7/275
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...
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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
1994
3 Ninjas Kick Back
5.584/317
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...
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3 Ninjas Kick Back
2008
Ben 10: Race Against Time
5.78/353
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.
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Ben 10: Race Against Time
1990
Come See the Paradise
6.2/58
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...
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Come See the Paradise
1993
Suture
6.4/39
A man named Clay flies into Phoenix for a reunion with his long-lost half-brother Vincent.
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Suture
1988
The Wash
0/0
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...
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The Wash
1982
Modesty Blaise
3.2/3
Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character.
Adventurer Modesty Blaise and knife thrower Willie Garvin - retired ex...
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Modesty Blaise
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
2009
Half Kenneth
0/0
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...
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Half Kenneth
2024
The Activated Man
7/3
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...
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The Activated Man
1993
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
5.5/904
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...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
1987
Blind Date
6/531
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...
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Blind Date
2009
Old Dogs
5.558/780
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...
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Old Dogs
2013
Family Gathering
0/0
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...
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Family Gathering
1982
The Challenge
5.86/50
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...
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The Challenge
1971
The Hospital
6.6/103
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...
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The Hospital
1979
When Hell Was in Session
7/1
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,...
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When Hell Was in Session
2008
The Sensei
4.1/11
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...
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The Sensei
1997
Paradise Road
6.4/91
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...
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Paradise Road
1981
Nice Dreams
5.911/124
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...
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Nice Dreams
2006
Americanese
1.5/2
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling frien...
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Americanese
1983
Where the Toys Come From
5.8/9
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...
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Where the Toys Come From
2003
Robot Stories
4.8/23
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
1976
Pacific Overtures
9/1
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...
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Pacific Overtures
2017
Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
8.1/33
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...
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Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
2016
The Watcher
5.4/93
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...
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The Watcher
1990
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
5.8/6
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived...
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1979
Mandrake
0/1
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...
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Mandrake
1995
Waterworld
6.224/4038
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...
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Waterworld
1998
The Big Hit
6/469
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...
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The Big Hit
2011
The Arcadian
0/0
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...
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The Arcadian
1972
Parades
6/1
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...
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Parades
1973
Pueblo
5.7/3
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...
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Pueblo
1976
Midway
6.601/321
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.
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Midway
1970
Loving
5.8/18
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...
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Loving
1982
Conan the Barbarian
6.8/2767
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...
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Conan the Barbarian
2002
Par 6
0/0
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.
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Par 6
1999
Life Tastes Good
5/1
A quirky tale that brings together a murder, poisonous mushrooms and a mysterious woman to reveal the ephemeral beauty of life and the unforgiving nat...
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Life Tastes Good
1978
And the Soul Shall Dance
0/0
Originally staged by the East West Players, pioneering author Wakako Yamauchi's adaptation of her award-winning play, “And the Soul Shall Dance,” for...
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