Regional – Northern California AreaHistorical / Cultural – Program / SpecialNominated 2006: Day of Independence Christopher Inadomi Tashima (born March 24, 1960) is a Japanese American actor and director.

Tashima also played the real-life historical figure, journalist and civil rights advocate Sei Fujii in George Shaw's and Jeffrey Gee Chin's short film, Lil Tokyo Reporter.

Tashima won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film with producer Chris Donahue, for Visas and Virtue (1997),[5] which he directed, co-wrote (adapting the one-act play by Toyama), and starred in.

Tashima directed, co-wrote and acted in Day of Independence (2003), a half-hour television special for PBS, produced by Lisa Onodera, which received a Regional Emmy Nomination from the NATAS San Francisco/Northern California Chapter, in the category of Historical/Cultural — Program/Special.

[6] His stage directing credits include the world premiere of Dan Kwong's Be Like Water produced by East West Players, in association with Cedar Grove OnStage, in September 2008.

Directed by Mako, the World War II comedy was presented at the InnerCity Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and received a nomination from the LA Weekly, for "Production of the Year."