{"id":2187555,"date":"2025-12-05T02:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2187555"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:11:24","slug":"mortal-kombat-star-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-dead-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mortal-kombat-star-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-dead-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mortal Kombat’ Star Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dead at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa<\/strong>, an actor famous for his work in the ‘Mortal Kombat’ franchise, is dead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Tagawa died Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, the result of complications from a stroke … his family tells Deadline<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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He was reportedly surrounded by family, including his children, when he died.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n


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Tagawa is famous for playing Shang Tsung, an evil sorcerer, in ‘Mortal Kombat’ movies, TV shows, and video games.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In addition to his work in ‘Mortal Kombat,’ Tagawa is also known for his roles in “The Last Emperor”, “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “The Man in the High Castle.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Tagawa was a martial artist trained in Kendo. He was born in Japan but moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina when he was 5 years old. In a 2010 interview, he recalled being Japanese in the South in the 1950s … saying it was “pretty tough.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Among his nearly 150 acting credits … “Big Trouble in Little China,” “Tekken,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Elektra,” “Snow Falling on Cedars,” “47 Ronin” and “License to Kill.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Tagawa was 75.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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RIP<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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‘Mortal Kombat’ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dead at 75 Published December 4, 2025 5:54 PM PST Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, an actor famous for his work in the ‘Mortal Kombat’ franchise, is dead. Tagawa died Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, the result of complications from a stroke … his family tells Deadline. He was reportedly surrounded by family, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mortal-Kombat-Star-Cary-Hiroyuki-Tagawa-Dead-at-75.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187557,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187555\/revisions\/2187557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}