James Pax

Acting

James Pax

Born 1961-12-21 · Japan

James Pax (Born December 21, 1961) is an American actor who has acted in films produced in Hollywood, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is born to an English father and a Chinese mother.

Acting credits

Big Trouble in Little China poster
7.2

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

Big Trouble in Little China

1986

Invasion U.S.A. poster
5.8

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Invasion U.S.A.

1985

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects poster
5.5

A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989

The Heroic Trio poster
6.7

While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.

The Heroic Trio

1993

Shootfighter: Fight to the Death poster
6.5

Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.

Shootfighter: Fight to the Death

1993

Crazy Hong Kong poster
5.0

In the early 1990s, Nǃxau was cast in three low-budget unofficial sequels that continued the fish-out-of-water aspects of the first two films.

Crazy Hong Kong

1993

Gates of Hell poster
4.0

A honeymooning couple from Hong Kong visit San Francisco. The wife is kidnapped, drugged and forced into prostitution. The husband searches all over the Bay Area for her.

Gates of Hell

1995

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains poster
5.4

Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

1994

Remains of a Woman poster
5.7

A powerful and unpredictable suspense drama about three ordinary people thrown together on a collision course to tragedy. Based on a true story.

Remains of a Woman

1993

Nasty Boys poster
7.3

When a narcotics team sent to bust some drug dealers are massacred. The police department form a special unit of undercover cops whose identities are withheld from the brass, and are only accountable to the leader, a Lieutenant. While they try to bust the dealers, the Lieutenant tries to find out who gave the dealers the information about the bust. And he suspects that it's someone in the DEA.

Nasty Boys

1989

The First Emperor poster
6.2

Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unified China, this documentary begins with the future Emperor's rise to power after the death of his father, becoming King of Qin at the age of thirteen. Mostly told through the use of re-enactments, the story continues to the present day and the discovery of the Emperor's tomb and terracotta army in 1974.

The First Emperor

2006

Bethune: The Making of a Hero poster
5.2

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

1993

Love Among the Triad poster
8.0

Simon Yam Tat-wah and Rosamund Kwan Chi-lam star in this gauzy melodrama about the life and loves of the gangster elite, directed by Andy Chin Wing-keung. The film centers around Ching Kit, a mob boss who instead of using typical tools of underworld shakedowns -- mob hits, blackmail, and the like -- employs the dinner party to negotiate deals, to forge partnerships, and craft revenge. When Ching works out a deal with the Portuguese mob that would give him partial control of Macau's casinos, he quickly learns that treachery lurks around every corner. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing, Cecila Yip Tung, and Pauline Wong Siu-fung also appear.

Love Among the Triad

1993

T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport poster
5.0

Hooker and his team become the protection detail of a Senator, and an old friend of Hooker's, after Hooker saves his life during a routine prisoner transfer in Hawaii while the Senator pushes his anti-terrorist bill.

T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport

1986

Murder in Paradise poster
5.0

A stressed-out, big-city cop seeks refuge in Hawaii, only to become embroiled in a serial murder case that appears to be identical to his last case in New York City.

Murder in Paradise

1990

Love Kills poster
3.5

A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

Love Kills

1999

Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders poster
7.0

Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.

Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders

1989

Wong Fei Hung Series : The Eight Assassins poster
4.0

First in a series of made for TV films: Burnt by the seeds of hatred and grudge against Wong Fei Hung, Prince Shing recruited eight magnificent fighters, nicknamed The Eight Demi-god Fighters' to challenge Hung. The ky man, Priest Geing-fax was the ex-disciple of Shaolin Temple. He had learnt the highest level of Shaolin Kung-fu "Bone Marrow Revitalization Mehod" in which made him become invulnerable. Out of his griev-ances towards Shaolin, he sweared to eliminate all its adherents, especially Hung. Never and ever had Hung met such a formidable man before, however, he still accepted this lethal duel in the name of Po Chi Lam despiting the fact that he was really at the death's door.

Wong Fei Hung Series : The Eight Assassins

1995

In Love and War poster
5.0

This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among other senior officers, led a resistance group against the North Vietnamese, facing torture, isolation, and starvation in attempts to break their wills. Back in the US, Stockdale's wife, Sybil, begins working with other POW wives to try to get information on their husbands and to inform the world on their treatment.

In Love and War

1987

Harimao poster
8.0

A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War

Harimao

1989

Shanghai Fever poster
7.5

Pan Hung is Lily, a humble bus conductor hired by Hong Kong commodities trader Sean Lau to be his connection to the Shanghai stock market. Lily finds the job surprisingly easy, and the duo begins to make big money. But at what price? With wealth and prosperity a driving daily goal for Lily, will her own family come to bear the cost? Director Lee Lok See uses his Shanghai focus to great effect, finding many avenues and opportunities for his satirical observations and cultural clashes. With capitalism and communism going head on in the rapidly growing city of Shanghai, which value system will ultimately live in each person's heart?

Shanghai Fever

1994

Set Me Free! poster
8.0

Alex Man leads a cast of Mainland Chinese characters having survived political turmoil but still gets on the criminal path in Hong Kong in order to make a living.

Set Me Free!

1988

Enemy Shadow poster
7.0

A new cop gets baptized by fire when bank robbers kill her sweetheart and her senior in front of her and she fails to shoot back. She resolves to become hard and rough, then goes undercover.

Enemy Shadow

1995

The Inside Track poster
6.7

The Inside Track is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Bill Tung.

The Inside Track

1994