"Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor who portrayed Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie, has passed away at the age of 75. Acorrding to Tagawa's family, he died in the morning of December 4 due to complications from a stroke. Tagawa's cinematic career spanned nearly four decades and began with a small part in Big Trouble in Little China in 1986 before taking off in 1987 with his role as Chang in The Last Emperor."
"Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon paid tribute to Tagawa on social media and called him "an amazing voice actor" who "combined danger, swagger and athleticism to his roles and will always be remembered as the man who first brought Shang Tsung to life on film." Tagawa reprised his role years later in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy before lending his voice and his likeness to the character again in Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat: Onslaught."
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa died the morning of December 4, 2025, at age 75 due to complications from a stroke. His cinematic career spanned nearly four decades, beginning with a small part in Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and a breakthrough role as Chang in The Last Emperor (1987). He appeared in Licence to Kill, Snow Falling on Cedars, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pearl Harbor, Kubo and the Two Strings, 47 Ronin, and the 2001 Planet of the Apes reboot. He became best known for portraying the sorcerer Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat, reprising the role in Mortal Kombat: Legacy and lending voice and likeness to Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat: Onslaught. He also played Heihachi Mishima in two Tekken films and appeared in The Man in the High Castle and the Netflix anime Blue Eye Samurai.
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