Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaFilmography

Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

Actors: Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, and Michael Madsen headline first-time feature filmmaker Michael Straininger's story of a successful writer and scholar who falls under the spell of a bewitching seductress on an obsessive quest for immortality. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story of the Read More

Balls of Fury

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board

Actors: Brandon Baker, Robyn Lively, Mary Page Keller, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: A sequel to the made for cable Disney movie Johnny Tsunami, Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board begins with respected teen surfer and skateboarder Johnny Kapahala (Brandon Baker) traveling to Hawaii to attend his grandfather's wedding. He soon becomes embroiled in a feud with his new twelve-year old Read More

The Slanted Screen: Asian Men in Film & Television

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jeff Adachi turns his critical lens on Hollywood in order to highlight the dangerous but seldom explored reality of cinematic prejudice. With fifty film clips spanning a century on the silver screen, Adachi chronicles the experiences of Asian men in American cinema. From ethnic Read More

Memoirs of a Geisha

Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh

Synopsis: This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head Read More

Elektra

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Daredevil's main squeeze gets resurrected in her own flick with this spin-off martial arts actioner from director Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire, The X-Files: Fight the Future). Jennifer Garner returns to the role of Elektra Natchios, a hired assassin whose origins are finally revealed after her old Read More

Faith of My Fathers

Actors: J.D. Evermore, Erin Cottrell, Korbi Dean, Chi Muoi Lo, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Shawn Hatosy, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: Faith of My Fathers tells the story of the young John McCain (Shawn Hatosy). The film charts McCain's early home life with his father, Admiral Jack McCain (Scott Glenn), follows him through his years of training in the Navy, and focuses on his harrowing years as a prisoner of war during the Read More

Hawaii [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Biehn, Sharif Atkins, Ivan Sergei, Eric Balfour, Aya Sumika

Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, Gena Lee Nolin, Yasmine Bleeth

Synopsis: Fans of the old Baywatch TV series take heart. Despite all evidence to the contrary, legendary lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) was not killed in that explosion during the series' final season. Instead, he has been suffering from amnesia for the past three years, and has now re-emerged Read More

Planet of the Apes

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Estella Warren, Paul Giamatti, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: This big budget "re-imagining" of the 1968 original departs somewhat from both that classic science fiction film and the source novel by author Pierre Boulle. Mark Wahlberg stars as Leo Davidson, an astronaut of the early 21st century whose unauthorized mission to rescue a chimp companion from a Read More

The Art of War

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Donald Sutherland, Michael Biehn

Synopsis: A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn't exist now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the assassination of Wu (James Hong), China's ambassador to the United Nations, in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes Read More

The Ghost

Actors: Brad Dourif, Richard Hatch, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A rivalry between two career criminals leads to a chase across two continents in this action thriller. Jing (Chung Lai) is a beautiful but deadly Chinese hit woman who, after being abandoned as a child, was adopted by the Tong, the Chinese organized crime syndicate to whom she has sworn lifelong Read More

Snow Falling on Cedars

Actors: Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Eric Thal, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune

Synopsis: Nine years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a small town in the Pacific Northwest still struggles with the troubling legacy of U.S. policies against Asian-Americans. In December 1950, just off the shores of San Piedro Island in Washington, a Japanese-American man named Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) Read More

Johnny Tsunami

Actors: Brandon Baker, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Yuji Okumoto, Mary Page Keller, Lee Thompson Young, Kirsten Storms

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable family comedy, a teenage surf champion gets some bad news from his family; they're moving to Vermont, where the waves are pretty hard to come by. Trapped in a school full of landlocked ho-dads, he has to find a way to fit in. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Bridge of Dragons

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rachel Shane

Synopsis: A military leader who is drunk with power tries to take control of a rival kingdom in this rumble in the jungle Dolph Lundgren action thriller. The young princess who helps guide the nation flees for her life, and a champion warrior (Lundgren) is set out by the crazed general to capture her. But Read More

Vampires

Actors: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell

Synopsis: John Carpenter directed this horror-western, adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, illuminating the pivotal figure of fearless vampire killer Jack Crow (James Woods), who lost his parents to the creatures. In a remote New Mexico location, Crow and his team, protected with chain-mail Read More

Stargate SG-1: Emancipation

Synopsis: On the planet Simarka, the SG-1 team mets the Mongol-like Shavadai warriors, who have relegated their women to a state of near-slavery. This rouses the feminist ire of team member Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping), who nonetheless saves the life of the Shavadai chief's son Abu (Jorge Vargas). Later Read More

The Phantom

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar

Synopsis: The first superhero ever, created by Lee Falk in 1936, gets another shot at movie stardom 60 years after achieving fame in comics and serials. Billy Zane stars as Kit Walker, who discovers that he's the 21st in a line of purple-clad African superheroes known as "The Phantom" or, to superstitious Read More

Danger Zone

Actors: Billy Zane, Robert Downey, Jr., Ron Silver, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Lisa Collins

Synopsis: In this action drama, an American mining engineer is deceived into returning to a civil-war-torn East African nation and forced into finding a missing plutonium shipment. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Provocateur

Actors: Jane March, Stephen Mendel, Lillo Brancato Jr., Nick Mancuso, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: Jane March (Color of Night) stars in this entertaining thriller as a North Korean spy working in the South Korean home of an American military man and his family. Half espionage thriller and half trashy coming-of-age story, the film spends as much time on March's budding romance with the teenage Read More

White Tiger

Actors: Gary Daniels, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Julia Nickson, Matt Craven, Lisa Langlois

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, a vengeful government agent seeks the gangster who slew his partner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Soldier Boyz

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tyrin Turner, Channon Roe, Cedrick Terrell

Synopsis: An ex-Marine officer working at a maximum security youth prison returns to Vietnam to search for the kidnapped daughter of an American business tycoon. He is accompanied by a specially trained cadre of his toughest inmates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Babylon 5: Convictions

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: A mad bomber is on the loose in the seamy Downbelow section of Babylon 5. As a result of an explosion, Londo and G'Kar are trapped in together in an inoperative transport tube. And when a religious group arrives at the station to study the worship customs of other cultures, Ivanova is drawn into Read More

Mortal Kombat

Actors: Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: Three reluctant fighters are drafted for an intergalactic martial-arts tournament that will determine the fate of the human race in this special-effects-driven adventure. Inspired by the popular and notoriously bloody video game, Mortal Kombat provides a semblance of a plot as an excuse for Read More

Picture Bride

Actors: Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Toshiro Mifune

Synopsis: The struggles of a young Japanese who leaves her home to marry an stranger are chronicled in this historical drama based on true stories. Picture brides were Japanese women contracted to marry Japanese sugar-cane laborers working in Hawaii. The couple would agree to marry based on the photos they Read More

Day of Reckoning

Natural Causes

Actors: Linda Purl, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Will Patton, Tim Thomerson, Janis Paige

Synopsis: In this political thriller set in Bangkok, a young woman finds herself drawn into a scheme designed to assassinate Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State. The film offers wonderful views of the Thai city. The film opens with the death of American Rachel McCarthy, who is murdered in her Read More

The Dangerous

Actors: Robert Davi, Michael Paré, Paula Barbieri, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Joel Grey

Synopsis: Filled with plenty of fisticuffs and karate, this actioner follows a tough New Orleans police officer on his personal quest to solve a series cop killings. The cop hires a mercenary biker to help with his private investigation. Their research reveals that the culprit is the town's biggest drug Read More

Rising Sun

Actors: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson

Synopsis: When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a legendary police detective who is an expert in Read More

Nemesis

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: Set in a WW III-decimated 21st-century Los Angeles in which humans compete with cyborgs, this low-budget special-effects laden thriller chronicles the attempts of a heroic fellow to clean up the town and keep the androids from taking over what's left of the planet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

American Me

Actors: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Danny De La Paz, Evelina Fernandez

Synopsis: Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending Read More

Whore

Crew: Editor

Actors: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas, Sanjay, Elizabeth Morehead

Synopsis: Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood products as Pretty Woman. As played by Theresa Russell (no relation to Ken), the eponymous character lives a hellish existence. Relating her story directly to the camera, Russell Read More

Showdown in Little Tokyo

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tia Carrere, Toshishiro Obata

Synopsis: Director Mark L. Lester modeled this police action drama on the Hong Kong style, guaranteeing plenty of over-the-top action sequences. Dolph Lundgren stars as police detective Chris Kenner, an American raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee, making his Hollywood Read More

Kickboxer 2: The Road Back

Actors: Sasha Mitchell, Peter Boyle, Dennis Chan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Diehl

Synopsis: This sequel to the popular Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle centers on the exploits of David Sloan (Sasha Mitchell) the younger brother of the two fighters (Van Damme and Dennis Alexio) who died in the first installment. As this episode begins, David has given up competition and is running a Read More

The Perfect Weapon

Actors: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mako, James Hong

Synopsis: Featuring plenty of high, hard kicks, and flailing furious fists, this martial arts actioner tells an exciting tale of vengeance as a tough American street fighter stalks the streets of L.A.'s Chinatown in search of the organized criminals responsible for his guardian's death. Movie newcomer Jeff Speakman Read More

Not of This World

Synopsis: Uh oh. An alien blob has oozed from the sky and is attempting to suck all the electricity from the earth in this sci-fi film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission of the Shark

Synopsis: When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of WWII, it began one of the most scandalous court-martials in the history of the military. For five days the surviving crew members were left in the shark-infested waters, with only half of them Read More

Vestige of Honor

Actors: Gerald McRaney, Season Hubley

Synopsis: Michael Gross plays Don Scott, the real-life protagonist of the 1990 TV movie Vestige of Honor It is Scott's mission in life to uphold the governmental assurances made to the Montagnards, a group of pro-US Vietnamese who'd been promised safe conduct to America after the war. But when Saigon fell Read More

Murder in Paradise

Actors: Kevin Kilner, Barbara Carrera, Maggie Han, Mako, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: When a New York policeman takes a vacation in Hawaii, he finds that the serial killer he has been tracking followed him to Hawaii and began killing again. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Moonlighting: Perfetc

Synopsis: A dying burglar hires Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) and David (Bruce Willis) to investigate a heist committed 25 years ago. No, the old man doesn't want to clear his name; instead, he wants to prove to the cops that he has committed the "perfect crime." Maddie wants no part of this, but David is Read More

Licence to Kill

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Timothy Dalton is better in Licence to Kill than in his first James Bond endeavor (The Living Daylights), but he still seems uncomfortable on the right side of the law. This time around, Bond is working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. His American friend Felix Read More

The Last Warrior

Actors: Gary Graham, Maria Holvoe, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: During the final days of the Second World War, the lone occupants of an otherwise deserted island--an American marine and his Japanese counterpart--battle for supremacy. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

L.A. Takedown

Actors: Alex McArthur

Synopsis: Producer/director Michael Mann, kappelmeister of the trendy TV series Miami Vice, tried to impose his MTV mentality on Tinseltown with L.A. Takedown. Los Angeles cop Scott Plank is on the trail of master thief Alex McArthur. After McArthur pulls off "the score of a lifetime," the crook and the cop Read More

Twins

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film Read More

Spellbinder

Actors: Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich, Audra Lindley, Anthony Crivello

Synopsis: Tim Daly stars in director Janet Greek's fair horror-thriller as Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills, who rescues beautiful Miranda Reed (Kelly Preston) from being raped. As he and Miranda become lovers, Jeff learns that his new girlfriend is a witch trying to escape from an evil cult led by Aldys (Anthony Crivello Read More

Bulletproof

Actors: Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: Frank McBain (Gary Busey) is a cop who earned the nickname of "bulletproof" from the dozens of shootings he has survived over his career. He is called on to retrieve a tank held by communists across the border of Mexico. The enemies are cardboard caricatures of Arabs, Russians, and Mexicans led by Read More

The Last Emperor

Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though Read More

Armed Response

Actors: David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Mako

Synopsis: Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception. The scene is Chinatown, where Yakuza boss Mako yearns to get his hands on a stolen jade statue. David Goss, son of retired cop Lee van Cleef and the brother of Vietnam Read More

Crimes of Passion

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) is a cold, workaholic sportswear designer, divorced and dedicated only to her job. Once strapped into that role, Joanna looks for an "out" and finds it by donning a wig and hitting the pavement as a $50/trick hooker named China Blue. Explicit scenes show her at work Read More

Bloodbath at the House of Death

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Sheila Steafel, John Fortune

Synopsis: This British horror spoof was conceived as a star vehicle for then-popular TV comedian Kenny Everett, who plays an occult scientist whose team of paranormal researchers are measuring psychic disturbances at a rural English estate called "Headstone Manor." Once the site of a bloody massacre, the Read More