Tzi Ma

A Sugar & Spice Holiday (2020)

As: Pete Yung

The film follows Chinese American Suzie who draws on her family’s cultural traditions to spice up an old-fashioned Christmas baking competition. Suzie, a rising young architect, returns to her small hometown in Maine for Christmas where her Chinese American family runs the local Lobster Bar. Following the loss of her beloved grandmother who was a renowned baker in their community, Suzie is guilted into ...

Directed by: Jennifer Liao

Stars: Tzi Ma | Cardi Wong | Jacky Lai | Tony Giroux | Lillian Lim

The Kid Detective (2020)

As: Mr. Chang

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Evan Morgan

Stars: Peter MacNeill | Adam Brody | Maurice Dean Wint | Sophie Nélisse | Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato

Tigertail (2020)

As: Grover

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Alan Yang

Stars: Tzi Ma | Kunjue Li | Hayden Szeto | Lee Hong Chi | Christine Ko

The Farewell (2019)

As: Haiyan

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Lulu Wang

Stars: Tzi Ma | Awkwafina | Diana Lin | Zhao Shuzhen | Lu Hong

Mulan (2018)

As: Hua Zhou

A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a warrior in order to save her father. A live-action feature film based on Disney's 'Mulan'.

Directed by: Niki Caro

Stars: Jet Li | Donnie Yen | Tzi Ma | Gong Li | Liu Yifei

Bad Company (2018)

As: Hawking

Troubled teens in a 2nd chance 'bootcamp' program encounter a group of terrorists trying to take out a rural nuclear power plant. Stuck in remote area with no skills or communication to the outside world, the teens find they are the only thing that can stop a nuclear threat.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Robin Christian

Stars: Booboo Stewart | Christopher Judge | Tzi Ma | Mark Derwin | Giselle Bonilla

Skyscraper (2018)

As: Fire Chief Sheng

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Rawson Thurber

Stars: Chin Han | Roland Møller | Noah Taylor | Dwayne Johnson | Neve Campbell

The Jade Pendant (2017)

As: Yu Hing

Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Po-Chih Leong

Stars: Mark Boone Junior | Russell Wong | Clara Lee | Tsai Chin | Godfrey Gao

Meditation Park (2017)

As: Bing

Mina Shum directs an all-star cast — including Cheng Pei Pei, Sandra Oh, Tzi Ma, and Don McKellar — in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother (Pei Pei) who is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Mina Shum

Stars: Sandra Oh | Don McKellar | Tzi Ma | Liane Balaban | Cheng Pei-Pei

Arrival (2016)

As: General Shang

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Stars: Forest Whitaker | Amy Adams | Jeremy Renner | Michael Stuhlbarg | Tzi Ma

Pali Road (2016)

As: Mr. Zhang

PALI ROAD is a mysterious and thrilling journey in search for true love between two different worlds. Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ...

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Hua Lang Lim

Stars: Jackson Rathbone | Lauren Sweetser | Sung Kang | Michelle Chen | Henry Ian Cusick

Diablo (2016)

As: Quok Mi

A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Lawrence Roeck

Stars: Danny Glover | Walton Goggins | Camilla Belle | Adam Beach | Scott Eastwood

Baby Steps (2015)

As: Mr. Lin

Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, and his partner Tate want to have a baby, but the complex world of international surrogacy is further complicated by Danny's well-meaning but extremely meddlesome mother.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Barney Cheng

Stars: Tzi Ma | Michael Adam Hamilton | Gua Ah-leh | Barney Cheng | Love Fang

A Good Man (2014)

As: Mr. Chen

After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Keoni Waxman

Stars: Steven Seagal | Victor Webster | Tzi Ma | Iulia Verdes | Massimo Dobrovic

Million Dollar Arm (2014)

As: Chang

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who ...

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Craig Gillespie

Stars: Jon Hamm | Lake Bell | Aasif Mandvi | Bill Paxton | Suraj Sharma

Chink (2013)

As: Mr. Chang

CHINK is about an Asian American man who has internalized the racism he felt as a child and turned it into a hatred of all Asians – including himself. His anger and his desire to be like his hero (Ted Bundy) leads him to violence and ultimately to his dream of becoming the greatest serial killer in history.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Stanley Yung

Stars: Shoshana Bush | Tzi Ma | Jason Tobin | Eugenia Yuan | Kenzie Dalton

Someone I Used to Know (2013)

As: Simo Kim

When three childhood friends reunite on one midsummer night, their delirious abandon and reminiscence explodes into a daring search for hope and deliverance from the burden of their dreams.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: Nadine Truong

Stars: Eddie Mui | West Liang | Rex Lee | Emily Chang | Brian Yang

The Campaign (2012)

As: Mr. Zheng

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Jay Roach

Stars: Will Ferrell | Zach Galifianakis | Jason Sudeikis | Katherine LaNasa | Dylan McDermott

All God's Children Can Dance (2008)

As: Glen

In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend until, one day, he sees a one-eared man who could be his father and decides to follow him around Los Angeles.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Robert Logevall

Stars: Joan Chen | Sonja Kinski | Jason Lew | Tzi Ma | John Fleck

The Sensei (2008)

As: Buddhist Monk

Lonely gay teenager, McClain, struggles to fit in with his classmates in a small, conservative Colorado town. After he's severely beaten at school, Karen O'Neil, a martial arts Sensei, secretly trains him to defend himself. When the town discovers their secret, a series of catastrophic events unfolds.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Diana Lee Inosanto

Stars: Keith David | Michael O'Laskey II | Diana Lee Inosanto | Kerry Knuppe | Mark McGraw

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

As: Ambassador Han

After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Inspector Lee and Detective Carter are back in action as they head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders. Lee also holds secret meetings with a United Nations authority, but his personal struggles with a Chinese criminal mastermind named Kenji, which reveals that it's Lee's long-lost...brother.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Stars: Max von Sydow | Jackie Chan | Yvan Attal | Hiroyuki Sanada | Chris Tucker

Battle in Seattle (2007)

As: Governor

Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Stuart Townsend

Stars: Michelle Rodriguez | Woody Harrelson | Charlize Theron | Martin Henderson | Jennifer Carpenter

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

As: Mr. Chiu

Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal ...

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Doug Atchison

Stars: Laurence Fishburne | Keke Palmer | Angela Bassett | Curtis Armstrong | J.R. Villarreal

The Slanted Screen (2006)

As: Himself

From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen examines the portrayal Asian men in film and television, and how new filmmakers are now re-defining age-old stereotypes.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Jeff Adachi

Stars: Will Yun Lee | Tzi Ma | Jason Scott Lee | Bobby Lee | Frankie Chin

Red Doors (2005)

As: Ed Wong

The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Georgia Lee

Stars: Tzi Ma | Jacqueline Kim | Freda Foh Shen | Elaine Kao | Kathy Shao-Lin Lee

The Ladykillers (2004)

As: The General

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen

Stars: Tom Hanks | Marlon Wayans | J.K. Simmons | Tzi Ma | Irma P. Hall

Bloodline (2003)

As: Charles Hwang

Follows the story of an orphaned young girl, Bird Benson, who, due to an accident of birth, is caught in the epic struggle between two warring families of mercenaries and killers.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Peter Berg

Stars: Jonathan Banks | Tom Everett Scott | Chris Zylka | Skyler Samuels | KaDee Strickland

The Quiet American (2002)

As: Hinh

A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Phillip Noyce

Stars: Michael Caine | Đỗ Thị Hải Yến | Tzi Ma | Brendan Fraser | Rade Serbedzija

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000)

As: Vinh

An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Chi Muoi Lo

Stars: Mary Alice | Lauren Tom | Paul Winfield | Chi Muoi Lo | Sanaa Lathan

Rush Hour (1998)

As: Consul Solon Han

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Stars: Tom Wilkinson | Jackie Chan | Tzi Ma | Chris Tucker | Ken Leung

Red Corner (1997)

As: Li Cheng

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: Jon Avnet

Stars: Bai Ling | Richard Gere | Byron Mann | Bradley Whitford | Peter Donat

Dante's Peak (1997)

As: Stan

Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Stars: Pierce Brosnan | Linda Hamilton | Jamie Renée Smith | Jeremy Foley | Elizabeth Hoffman

Chain Reaction (1996)

As: Lu Chen

Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Andrew Davis

Stars: Morgan Freeman | Keanu Reeves | Rachel Weisz | Kevin Dunn | Fred Ward

Golden Gate (1994)

As: Chen Jung Song

A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man and his teenage daughter.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: John Madden

Stars: Joan Chen | Matt Dillon | Teri Polo | Bruno Kirby | Cully Fredricksen

Rapid Fire (1992)

As: Kinman Tau

College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Dwight H. Little

Stars: Powers Boothe | Raymond J. Barry | Brandon Lee | Kate Hodge | Nick Mancuso

RoboCop 2 (1990)

As: Tak Akita

After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with ...

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Irvin Kershner

Stars: Peter Weller | Nancy Allen | Tom Noonan | Willard E. Pugh | Belinda Bauer

The Forgotten (1989)

As: Premier

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a ...

Directed by: James Keach

Stars: Steve Railsback | Keith Carradine | Pepe Serna | Richard Lawson | Don Keith Opper

The Money Pit (1986)

As: Hwang

After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buys what looks like the home of their dreams – only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything – including the kitchen sink – disappears into the 'Money Pit'.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Richard Benjamin

Stars: Tom Hanks | Joe Mantegna | Alexander Godunov | Maureen Stapleton | Shelley Long