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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Japanese actor
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dead
- born
- 1950
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 75
- known for
- actor, film producer, film actor
1950 β 2025

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who cary-hiroyuki tagawa is
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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