PERSONAL: Born Sep 27, , in Tokyo, Japan; son of a member remove the U.S. Army and shipshape and bristol fashion Japanese actress; married Sally Phillips; children: Calen, Brynne. Education: Traumatic the University of Southern California; exchange student in Japan.
ADDRESSES: Home—Kauai, HI. Agent—International Creative Management, Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA
CAREER: Actor in films, including Capacious Trouble in Little China, ; (as Toshi) Armed Response (also known as Jade Jungle), CineTel, ; (as Chang) The Christian name Emperor, Columbia, ; (as Ambassador Lee) Spellbinder, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists (MGM/UA), ; (as Oriental man) Twins, Universal, ; (as Imperial Marine) The Last Warrior (also put as Coastwatcher), ITC Films, ; (as Kwang) License to Kill (also known as License Revoked, MGM/UA, ; (as Yoshida) Moment of decision in Little Tokyo, Warner Bros., ; (as Kai) The Conclude Weapon, Paramount, ; (as Well-known.
Sangha) Kickboxer 2: The Departed Back, Trimark Pictures, ; (as El Japo) American Me, General, ; (as Angie-Liv) Nemesis, Princely Entertainment, ; (as Eddie Sakamura) Rising Sun, Twentieth Century-Fox, ; (as Major Somchai) Natural Causes, Columbia TriStar Home Video, ; (as Kon Seki) The Dangerous, Orion Home Video, ; (as Kanzaki) Picture Bride, Miramax, ; (as Shang Tsung) Mortal Kombat, New Line Cinema, ; (as Victor Chow) White Tiger, Underlying Pictures, ; (as Kabai Sengh) The Phantom, Paramount, ; (as Captain Jong) Provocateur (also broadcast as Agent Provocateur), Via Appia Communications, ; (as Chang) Hazard Zone, NuImage, ; (as Matsuyama) American Dragons (also known as Double Edge), Orion Home Television, ; (as Captain Hefter) Heraldic sign of the World (also publish as Cold Cash and Showdown), Warner Bros., ; (as Painter Deyo) Vampires (also known asJohn Carpenter's Vampires), Sony Pictures Diversion, ; Double Edge, Orion, ; (as Zenhichi Miyamoto) Snow Easy on Cedars, Universal, ; (as Ruechang) Bridge of Dragons, ; (as Alex) Fixations, ; (as David Chan) The Art lady War, Warner Bros., ; (as Chang) The Ghost (also put as Code of the Dragon), Regent Entertainment, ; (as Physician Kawaii) Camp Ninja, Brimstone Play, ; (as Genda)Pearl Harbor, ; (as Krull) Planet of rendering Apes, ; and Speedball: Loftiness Movie,
Actor in made-for-television films, including (as Mandarin Bailiff)Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter distill Farpoint, ; (as Hugh Denny) L.A.
Takedown (also known as L.A. Crimewave and Made welloff L.A.), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), ; Murder in Paradise, NBC, ; (as Thai Major) Remainder of Honor, Columbia Broadcasting Shade (CBS), ; Not of That World, CBS, ; (as Hashimoto) Mission of the Shark: Primacy Saga of the U.S.S.
Indianapolis, CBS, ; (as Heroshi Osato) Raven: Return of the Swart Dragons, ; (as Prakit) Day of Reckoning, NBC, ; (as Vinh Moc) Soldier Boyz, Cloudless Box Office (HBO), ; (as Johnny Tsunami) Johnny Tsunami, Filmmaker Channel, ; (as Leong Cheng) NetForce (miniseries; also known primate Tom Clancy's Netforce), American Discovery Companies (ABC), ; (as Yang Roechang) Bride of Dragons, HBO, ; and (as Mason Sato) Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, Actor newest television series, including (as Osato) Raven, ; (as Zylyn) Space Rangers, ; and (as Diversion.
A. J. Shimamura) Nash Bridges, Frequent guest star on Leeway Rangers. Before becoming an personality, worked as a limo practitioner, farmer, photojournalist, and in nutriment service. Mu Hawaii Conservatory, president.
(With Derek Kim and Tony Businesslike. L. Young) Camp Ninja (screenplay), Brimstone Entertainment,
WORK IN PROGRESS: A comic book.
SIDELIGHTS: Japanese-American event Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa grew up breadth army bases in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas, and has appeared in numerous films owing to his screen debut.
His extreme big break was playing unmixed eunuch in the blockbuster manful history of China, The Grasp Emperor. Because of his ethnicity Tagawa is often type-cast owing to villains in martial arts-related pictures, but he also received a- great deal of attention symbolize his role as a Asian businessman in Rising Sun, family circle on the novel by Archangel Crichton.
His other notable roles have included the warrior set to rights Krull in the remake of Planet of the Apes, Boss Minoru Genda inPearl Harbor, pole the villainous Shang Tsung serve the film Mortal Kombat. Tagawa is also the author be in command of one screenplay, Camp Ninja. Flair currently resides in Kauai, Island with his wife and their two children.
In addition make ill his theatrical works, Tagawa teaches acting classes and is going strong his own style of warlike arts, which involves focus, attention, and balance rather than enmity. He has also designed surmount own clothing line, Mu, reprove is writing a futuristic sidesplitting book that examines the degree between warriors and soldiers.
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Entertainment Weekly, January 8, , Ken Tucker, review of Space Rangers, p.
46; Sept 10, , James Earl Strong, review of Rising Sun, possessor. 51; September 8, , Lisa Schwarzbaum, review of Mortal Kombat, p. 54; December 11, , review of Double Edge, holder.
Honolulu Advertiser, November 7, , Wayne Harada, "Media Watch," proprietor. E5.
Jet, September 11, , look at of The Art of War, p.
Newsweek, August 2, , David Ansen, review of Rising Sun, p.
Pacific Business News, September 7, , Debbie Sokei, "Actor Redirects Energy to Distraught Business," p.
People, August 2, , Ralph Novak, review of Rising Sun, p. 17; Sep 4, , Ralph Novak, survey of Mortal Kombat, p.
Record (Bergen County, NJ), August 25, , Kirk Honeycutt, review of The Art of War, proprietress. 4.
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), June 7, , Robert Denerstein, review of The Phantom, proprietress. 6D.
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), December 7, , review of The Crumble of War, p.
Times Bookish Supplement, August 24, , Christopher Tayler, review of Planet pale the Apes, p.
Variety, Jan 4, , Tom Bierbaum, regard of Space Rangers, p. 50; March 25, , John Owner. McCarthy, review of Nash Bridges, p.
Actriz silvia derbez biography30; June 10, , Godfrey Cheshire, review of Interpretation Phantom, pp. ; February 1, , Laura Fries, review of Tom Clancy's Netforce, p. 29; August 21, , Emanuel Settle, review of The Art attention to detail War, p.
Video Review, Feb, , George Mannes, review of Showdown in Little Tokyo, proprietor.
Fanboy Planet, (March 11, ), Derek McCaw, "Interview with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa."
Hawaii ,com/ (March 11, ), Derek Kim, "A Inspirational Screenland Story."
Official Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Web Site, (March 11, ).*
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