Los Angeles

Robert Ito

Robert Ito is a well-known film actor. Born in Vancouver in 1931, he began his performance career early, winning local singing, dance, and elocution competitions from the tender age of eight as “little Bobby Ito”. He also performed in talent revues in the community, both in Vancouver, and later in Hastings Park. He was interned […]

Alan Kondo

Alan Kondo was the first lead singer of the Asia Minors, an Asian Canadian top 40s rock band in the 1960s in Toronto. After leaving the band, he went on to study film at UCLA under Jerry Lewis, and became an editor for Visual Communications in Los Angeles. He edited Hito Hata, the first Asian […]

Eric Koyanagi

Eric Koyanagi is a filmmaker, writer and editor. He wrote and directed the seminal Asian American feature film hundred percent, which LA Weekly declared, ‘A bright sharp comedy-drama with funky retro flair to spare,’ and the LA Times heralded as ‘Winning knockabout comedy!’ He followed it up with the US-Japan co-production, Shadow Fury, a high-wire […]

Nobu McCarthy

Nobu McCarthy (nee Atsumi), born in Ottawa, Ontario, was an actress, stage director and fashion model. Her father, Masaji Atsumi, was a fashion designer in Japan and a diplomatic attaché stationed in Canada when Nobu was born. She was raised in Japan where she studied ballet. While living in Los Angeles, she was discovered in […]