Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

CountryJapan Japan
GenderMale
BirthdaySep 27, 1950
Death2025-12-04
BiographyCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Japanese: 田川 洋行, romanized: Tagawa Hiroyuki; 27 September 1950 – 4 December 2025) was a Japanese actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter 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. He appeared as Lt. A.J. Shimamura on 15 episodes of the American television series Nash Bridges.

Often cast as villains, he became 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 (2016). 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).

Biography from the Wikipedia article Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Blue Eye Samurai
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as The Swordmaker
Hawaii
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as Captain Terry Harada
Nash Bridges
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as A.J. Shimamura
Space Rangers
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as Zylyn
Teen Titans
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as Brushogun
The Man in the High Castle
Ended

The Man in the High Castle

as Nobusuke Tagomi

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