Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

CountryJapan Japan
GenderMale
BirthdaySep 27, 1950
BiographyCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Japanese: 田川 洋行, romanized: Tagawa Hiroyuki; born September 27, 1950) is a Japanese-American actor and producer.

Often cast as villains, he is known for his film roles in: The Last Emperor (1987), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), American Me (1992), Rising Sun (1993), Mortal Kombat (1995), The Phantom (1996), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Planet of the Apes (also 2001), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Tekken (2009), 47 Ronin (2013), Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge (2014), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2017). He starred as Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi on the Amazon Prime television series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2018) and Hiroki Watanabe on the Netflix series Lost in Space (2018–2021).

Tagawa is known for his role as the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11.

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as Captain Terry Harada
Nash Bridges
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as Lt. A.J. Shimamura
Space Rangers
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Space Rangers

as Zylyn
The Man in the High Castle
Ended

The Man in the High Castle

as Nobusuke Tagomi

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