James Yaegashi

James Yaegashi

Born: December 10, 1972
in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
James was born in Yokohama and raised in rural Yamagata, Japan. He moved to the U.S. after high school and earned a BA in literature from Wheaton College and an MFA in acting and directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

James is based in NYC, working as an actor, director, translator, and writer. Many fans know him as Robert Minoru from Marvel's Runaways. He has originated many roles on and off Broadway, including Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy, Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out (2003 Tony Award for Best Play), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals, and Julia Cho's Durango. His credits also include characters in world-premiere stage adaptations of literary classics, such as Yunioshi in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway and Toru in Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh Int'l Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival.

For the stage, he has directed My Friend Has Come for the Asian American Writers Workshop, Dancing with the Bird at the Japan Society in New York, "Clippy and Ms. U" for Ma-Yi Studios, and Ready or Not and It's a Jungle Out There for the 52nd Street Project Playmaking series. He made his filmmaking debut in '11 with Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty, which won Best Feature in the DIY film competition at Northside Festival, a trendsetter art festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

James was the conceiver of the theater benefit "SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan" which took place on March 11, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the disasters in Japan, with participation from nearly 100 theaters, internationally. He also collaborates frequently with Japanese artists, translating award winning contemporary Japanese plays and subtitling major Japanese studio films.

James is also a martial artist with black belts in judo and aikido.

Movies for James Yaegashi...

Title: Fallout
Character: Leon Von Felden (West-Tek)
Released: April 10, 2024
Type: TV
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
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Civil War
Title: Civil War
Character: Commercial Corporal
Released: April 10, 2024
Type: Movie
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
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Title: Mech Cadets
Character: Captain Skip Tanaka (voice)
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: TV
An underdog teen joins a group of young Cadets who've been chosen to bond with Robo Mechs from space and defend Earth against alien invaders.
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Title: Poker Face
Character: Officer Buckley
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: TV
This mystery-of-the-week series follows Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
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Title: New Amsterdam
Character: Ethan Kimura
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
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Title: Marvel's Runaways
Character: Robert Minoru
Released: November 21, 2017
Type: TV
Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.
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Resistance at Tule Lake
Title: Resistance at Tule Lake
Character: Iwao Shimizu (voice)
Released: July 19, 2017
Type: Movie
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as 'disloyals' and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest in the face of militarized violence, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, this documentary challenges the nationalist, one-sided ideal of wartime 'loyalty.'
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Title: Marvel's Daredevil
Character: Leader
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: TV
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Alexander Frayne
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Man on a Ledge
Title: Man on a Ledge
Character: Police Technician
Released: January 13, 2012
Type: Movie
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Peter Chou
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Title: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Character: Legal Assistant
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: Movie
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
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Lisa Picard Is Famous
Title: Lisa Picard Is Famous
Character: Alex
Released: May 14, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
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Spin The Bottle
Title: Spin The Bottle
Character: Cole
Released: October 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Sam thinks he has the answer: find the girl of his dreams and his problems are solved. His roommate Cole, still spinning from a break-up, doesn't believe in true love. Their best friend Zach does - if it involves Hannah - but does she feel the same way? Over a beautiful spring weekend in New York City, these three young men find themselves face to face with their true loves. The beautiful and exotic Eva literally "steps" into Sam's life, Cole and Devon reconsider their break-up and Zach summons the courage to confess his true feelings to Hannah. Will these bumbling heroes find true love before Sunday night? Spin the bottle to find out.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Title: The Thomas Crown Affair
Character: Crown Acquisitions Executive
Released: August 6, 1999
Type: Movie
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.