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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Japanese actor

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born
1950
died
2025
age at death
75
known for
actor, film producer, film actor

1950 – 2025

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 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.

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