Nationality American Sansei Name Lane Nishikawa | Role Actor | |
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Occupation novelist and playwright Education San Francisco State University Movies Only the Brave, East Side Sushi, Village of the Damned, Eat a Bowl of Tea, MIS ‑Human Secret W Similar People Greg Watanabe, Ken Narasaki, Yuji Okumoto, Kipp Shiotani, Tamlyn Tomita | ||
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Lane Nishikawa is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright and performance artist. He was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii and is Sansei (third generation Japanese American); and his work often deals with Asian American history and identity issues. He is widely known for a series of one-man shows, including Life in the Fast Lane, I'm on a Mission From Buddha, Mifune and Me and others. In 2005 he directed the independent feature film, Only the Brave, a fictional account of the rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American fighting unit during World War II. Nishikawa also starred in the lead role. He has written and directed two short films about World War II veterans, Forgotten Valor and When We Were Warriors.
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Nishikawa has a long history in Asian American theater, having served as artistic director for the Asian American Theater Company, in San Francisco, California for 10 seasons. He was co-artistic director of the Eureka Theatre and resident director at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.