'Rest in Peace. Your Soul Is Eternal' — Tributes for Mortal Kombat Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Who Has Died Aged 75

Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung successful the archetypal Mortal Kombat movie arsenic good arsenic video crippled Mortal Kombat 11, has died aged 75.

The prima of The Last Emperor, Memoirs of a Geisha, and The Man successful the High Castle, died Thursday successful Santa Barbara owed to complications from a stroke, Deadline reported.

Tagawa famously played evil sorcerer Shang Tsung successful the 1995 adaptation of the Mortal Kombat video game, becoming an instantly recognizable look for an service of fans. In the movie, Shang Tsung points to a helpless Liu Kang portion holding his brother, Chan hostage, and declares: "your brother's psyche is mine!" Tagawa would spell connected to marque his 'Your psyche is mine!' enactment an iconic portion of Shang Tsung lore, and it has endured successful the 30 years since. After the archetypal Mortal Kombat movie, Tagawa went connected to play Shang Tsung aggregate times, including successful 2019’s Mortal Kombat 11, wherever his dependable and carnal likeness was utilized — overmuch to the delight of fans.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Christopher Lambert astatine the Mortal Kombat Los Angeles premiere successful August 1995. Photo by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images.

Other movie roles included Kwang successful James Bond movie Licence to Kill, Commander Minoru Genda successful Pearl Harbor, and Heihachi Mishima successful the 2009 Tekken movie and its 2014 sequel, Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge.

Tagawa’s past large relation came successful 2015, erstwhile helium played 1 of the pb characters successful Amazon’s The Man successful the High Castle. His last relation was voicing Eiji the Swordmaker successful Season 1 of Netflix’s well-received animated Blue Eye Samurai.

Ed Boon, improvement main astatine Mortal Kombat workplace NetherRealm, paid tribute to Tagawa successful a station connected societal media. “We mislaid a fable today,” helium said. “We had the privilege of his portrayal connected the archetypal MK movie but besides arsenic an astonishing dependable histrion successful the Mortal Kombat 11 game. Cary was 1 of a kind. He combined danger, swagger and athleticism to his roles and volition ever beryllium remembered arsenic the antheral who archetypal brought Shang Tsung to beingness connected film. Rest successful Peace. Your psyche is eternal.”

Todd Garner, shaper connected the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie arsenic good arsenic its upcoming sequel, besides took to societal media, saying: "Sad news. Great man. Great actor. He volition beryllium missed."

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