Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is a Japanese-American actor, film producer, and martial artist.
19 Facts About Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa starred as Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi on the Amazon Prime television series The Man in the High Castle and Hiroki Watanabe on the Netflix series Lost in Space.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of Japanese Takarazuka actress Mariko Hata and a Japanese-American father who served in the United States Army and was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Polk, Louisiana; and Fort Hood, Texas.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa attended the University of Southern California and was an exchange student in Japan.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa studied kendo and Shotokan karate under Masatoshi Nakayama at the Japan Karate Association.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa starred alongside James Hong, Mako Iwamatsu and Jeff Speakman in the same year in the film The Perfect Weapon, where he played Kai, an assistant to the Korean mafia families.
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In 1993, he starred as the wayward scion of a Japanese industrialist in Rising Sun, where Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, and Harvey Keitel played detectives holding various viewpoints about the murder of a young woman that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's character was being framed for.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa appeared in the film Mortal Kombat as the sorcerer Shang Tsung; he reprised the role in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy in 2013, and in the video game Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa appeared as the deadly pirate leader Kabai Sengh in The Phantom.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen, directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian-American men in Hollywood.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played Heihachi Mishima in Tekken, the film adaptation of the video game franchise.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was in the film Johnny Tsunami and its sequel Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board.
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In between those two films, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played Attar's mentor Krull in Tim Burton's version of Planet of the Apes.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played Satoshi Takeda in Revenge, a powerful CEO in Japan and Emily Thorne's former mentor in her quest for revenge.
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In season 2, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa took over the role from Hiroyuki Sanada, who was unable to continue due to scheduling conflicts.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays the role of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in the 2013 film 47 Ronin.
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In 2015, Tagawa was cast as one of the lead characters, Nobusuke Tagomi, the Trade Minister of the Pacific States of America in Amazon's The Man in the High Castle based on Philip K Dick's novel of the same name.
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In 2013, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa started working with Russian film actors Pyotr Mamonov and Ivan Okhlobystin.
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In 2015, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, and in 2016, he acquired Russian citizenship.