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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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| Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 27, 1950  Tokyo, Japan |
| Other name(s) | Cary Tagawa |
| Official site | Cary Tagawa Online |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (田川 洋行 Tagawa Hiroyuki?, born 27 September 1950) is a Japanese American actor. In addition to his extensive film work, he has appeared on television in Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987), Thunder in Paradise (1995), Nash Bridges (1996), Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003), and Heroes (2007). He also provided the voice of Sin Tzu for the video game Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu.
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He was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of an actress from Tokyo and a Japanese-American father who served in the United States Army (stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Polk, Louisiana and Fort Hood, Texas). He was raised in various cities. He began acting in high school in Southern California. He attended the University of Southern California, and was an exchange student in Japan.
His breakthrough as an actor came when he was cast as the Eunuch Chang in The Last Emperor (1987). In 1989 he posed as an undercover agent of the Hong Kong Narcotics Board in the James Bond film License to Kill. In 1991 he starred alongside Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee in the action film Showdown in Little Tokyo, where he played the role of Yakuza boss Yoshida. He also starred alongside James Hong and Jeff Speakman in the same year in the film The Perfect Weapon, where he played Kai, an assistant to the Korean mafia families.
Many will remember him in the movie Mortal Kombat (1995) as the shape-shifting sorcerer Shang Tsung, and as the deadly pirate leader Kabai Singh in The Phantom (1996).
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian-American men in Hollywood.
On November 15, 2007 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was arrested in Waikiki for assaulting his girlfriend. He was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence.[1]
- The Last Emperor (1987)
- Twins (1988)
- Bulletproof (1988)
- Licence to Kill (1989)
- Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
- Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)
- The Perfect Weapon (1991)
- American Me (1992)
- Nemesis (1993)
- Rising Sun (1993)
- Picture Bride (1994)
- Mortal Kombat (1995)
- The Phantom (1996)
- Top of the World (1997)
- Danger Zone (1997)
- Vampires (1998)
- Johnny Tsunami (1999)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
- The Art of War (2000)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Elektra (2005)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
- The Slanted Screen (documentary, 2006)
- Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)
- Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (2007)
- Balls of Fury (2007)
- Slaughter (2008)
- Cary Tagawa Online :: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Official Fan Site
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa at the Internet Movie Database
- Paul, Louis (2008). "Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa", Tales From the Cult Film Trenches; Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, p.254-261. ISBN 978-0-7864-2994-3.
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki