Mortal Kombat Star Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Sadly Passed Away One Year Ago at 75 Years Old, Today Would've Been His 76th Birthday 🕊️
Happy heavenly birthday! 🎂
Some actors played villains. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa made them impossible to forget.
Legendary Japanese-American actor and martial artist whose commanding presence turned even a few minutes of screen time into something memorable.
For many fans, Tagawa will forever be Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat, a role he made so iconic that he returned to portray the sorcerer decades later in Mortal Kombat 11.
But his career stretched far beyond Outworld, from Oscar-winning films and James Bond to prestige television, animation and video games.
- Mortal Kombat — Shang Tsung
- The Man in the High Castle — Nobusuke Tagomi
- The Last Emperor — Chang
- Planet of the Apes — Krull
- Tekken — Heihachi Mishima
- Johnny Tsunami — Johnny Tsunami
- Memoirs of a Geisha — The Baron
- Licence to Kill — Kwang
- Blue Eye Samurai — Master Eiji / The Swordmaker
and many more!- Star Wars Rebels — Alrich Wren
He built a career out of intimidating characters, warriors and powerful men, yet behind them was an actor capable of warmth, dignity and surprising vulnerability.
Happy birthday in heaven, legend 🕯️