Familiar Faces On Screen: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
December 31, 2008 by Reel Ninja
Filed under Familar Faces On Screen
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has appeared in movies such as The Last Emperor (1987), License to Kill (1989), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) and Mortal Kombat (1995).
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was born on 27 September, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan, the son of an actress from Tokyo and a Japanese-American father who served in the United States Army (stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Polk, Louisiana and Fort Hood, Texas).
- His family finally settled in Southern California, where Tagawa began acting while in high school. He was an exchange student in Japan while studying at the University of Southern California.
- In his free time, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is developing a new form of martial arts, called “Chun Shin.”
- He is a part-time masseur for the University of Hawaii football team. He often helps injured players.
- His latest role involves playing Heihachi Mishima in Tekken, the film adaptation of the popular video game franchise.
