"It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up."
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (born September 27, 1950), also known as Cary Tagawa, is a Japanese-American actor. Born in Tokyo, he is well known for playing villainous roles and for his martial arts skill.
His most famous roles include his appearances as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat: The Movie and Mortal Kombat 11, Yoshida in Showdown in Little Tokyo, and Heihachi Mishima in Tekken (2010).
Some of his roles include:
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986) as Wing Kong Man (Uncredited)
- Armed Response (1986) as Toshi
- The Last Emperor (1987) as Chang
- Twins (1988) as an Asian Man
- Licence to Kill (1989) as Kwang
- Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) as Funekei Yoshida
- Nemesis (1992) as Angie-Liv
- Rising Sun (1993) as Eddie Sakamura
- Mortal Kombat: The Movie (1995) as Shang Tsung
- Soldier Boyz (1995) as Vinh Moc
- The Phantom (1996) as Kabai Sengh
- John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) as David Dayo
- Bridge of Dragons (1999) as General Ruechang
- Johnny Tsunami (1999) as Johnny Tsunami
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) as Zenhichi Miyamoto
- The Art of War (2000) as David Chan
- Planet of the Apes (2001) as Krull
- Pearl Harbor (2001) as Commander Minoru Genda
- Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (2003) as Sin Tzu (voice)
- Hawaii (2004) as Capt. Terry Harada
- Elektra (2005) as Roshi
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as the Baron
- Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006) as Brushogun (voice)
- Balls of Fury (2007) as Mysterious Asian Man
- Tekken (2010) as Heihachi Mishima
- Hawaii Five-0 (2011) as Hiro Noshimuri
- 47 Ronin (2013) as Shogun Tsunayoshi
- Иерей-Сан (translated as Priest-San) (2014) as Father Nikolai (Takuro) Nakamura
- The Man in the High Castle (2015) as Nobusuke Togami
- Overwatch (2016) as Sojiro Shimada (voice)
- Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) as Hashi (voice)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) (2012) as Sumo Kuma (voice)
- Star Wars Rebels (2017) as Alrich Wren (voice)
- Lost in Space (2018) as Hiroki Watanabe
- Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) as Shang Tsung (voice)
- DuckTales (2017) (2020) as Dr. Akita (voice)
- Sky Sharks (2020) as Michael Morel
- Star Wars: Visions (2021) as Valco
- Reagan (2022) as Yasuhiro Nakasone
YOUR TROPES ARE MINE:
- Cool Old Guy: As the titular character in Johnny Tsunami, and later as resident biologist Hiroki Watanabe in Lost in Space (2018).
- Evil Sounds Deep: Has a delightfully deep and sonorous voice, which he uses to great effect in his villainous roles. His normal voice is actually a lot lighter, he just deepens it in his movie roles because of this trope.
- Interchangeable Asian Cultures / Fake Nationality: He is Japanese and Japanese-American, but has played other Asian nationalities and cultures across his career. Examples include his role the East Asian Kabai Sengh in The Phantom, the Vietnamese Vinh Moc in Soldier Boyz and even his signature role as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat: The Movie and assorted media (it's unclear if Shang Tsung even belongs to a human nationality, but his name and styling is evidently Chinese).
- Large Ham: While he specializes in more quiet, reserved bad guys, he can ham it up with the best of them when necessary, and has the possibly-unique ability to be a quiet Large Ham. Surfboard in Johnny Tsunami?
- He also plays a Japanese Orthodox priest in Иерей-Сан (translated as Priest-San), he interestingly stated that this role was the closest to his real life personality.
- Role Reprise: He returned his role as Shang Tsung in the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy 18 years after he last portrayed him. Later he would reprise the role again for Mortal Kombat 11, 24 years after he first took up the sorcerer's mantle - and he plays the role in an Ink Suit, to boot!.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: Your brother's entries are mine
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: It has begun.
