Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Japanese actor (1950–2025)

On December 5, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was 2026 FIFA World Cup, with 864,902 views. WikiPop's pick, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, came in at #3 with 273,965 views.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was a Japanese actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11. He appeared as Lt. A.J. Shimamura on 15 episodes of the American television series Nash Bridges.

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