Also in November 2015, both he and Taimak ( The Last Dragon) were honorees for the Fists of Legends Legacy Award at the Urban Action Showcase & Expo. In 2015, Tagawa was cast as one of the lead characters, Nobusuke Tagomi, the Trade Minister of the Pacific States of America in Amazon's The Man in the High Castle based on Philip K. Tagawa also plays the role of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in the 2013 film 47 Ronin. In season 2, Tagawa took over the role from Hiroyuki Sanada, who was unable to continue due to scheduling conflicts. He played Satoshi Takeda in Revenge, a powerful CEO in Japan and Emily Thorne's former mentor in her quest for revenge. In between those two films, Tagawa played Attar's mentor Krull in Tim Burton's version of Planet of the Apes (2001).
He was in the film Johnny Tsunami (1999) and its sequel Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (2007). In 2006, he provided the voice of Brushogun in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. Tagawa played Heihachi Mishima in Tekken, the film adaptation of the video game franchise. Tagawa is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian-American men in Hollywood. He also appeared as the deadly pirate leader Kabai Sengh in The Phantom (1996).
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He appeared in the film Mortal Kombat (1995) as the sorcerer Shang Tsung he reprised the role in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy in 2013, and in the video game Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019. In 1993, he starred as the wayward scion of a Japanese industrialist in Rising Sun, where Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, and Harvey Keitel played detectives holding various viewpoints about the murder of a young woman that Tagawa's character was being framed for. He also starred alongside James Hong and Jeff Speakman in the same year in the film The Perfect Weapon, where he played Kai, an assistant to the Korean mafia families. In 1991, he starred alongside Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee in the action film Showdown in Little Tokyo, where he played the role of Yakuza boss Yoshida. In 1989, he played an undercover agent of the Hong Kong Narcotics Board in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. His breakthrough as an actor came when he was cast as the Eunuch Chang in The Last Emperor ( 1987). Tagawa is known for his role as the evil 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 starred as Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi on the Amazon Prime television series The Man in the High Castle (2015-2018) and Hiroki Watanabe on the Netflix series Lost in Space (2018-2021). Often cast as villains, he is known for his film roles in The Last Emperor (1987), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), American Me (1992), Rising Sun (1993), The Phantom (1996), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Planet of the Apes (also 2001), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Tekken (2009), 47 Ronin (2013), Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge (2014), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2017). Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Japanese: 田川 洋行, Tagawa Hiroyuki born September 27, 1950) is a Japanese-born Russian actor, film producer, and martial artist.