Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat) died on Dec. 4. He was 75. Born in Tokyo but raised in the US, Tagawa began acting in the 1980s, and was soon playing juicy character roles, notably in the Mortal Kombat films, TV series and video game. His other vehicles included The Last Emperor, License to Kill, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Rising Sun, The Phantom, Snow Falling on Cedars, Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes, Memoirs of a Geisha, 47 Ronin, and The Man in the High Castle. Tagawa also practiced “a hybrid of martial arts and healing called Chuu-Shin, a form referred to as Martial Alchemy.” “I really believe that breath, in and of itself, can become the ultimate self-healing tool,” he said. “You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else. I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.” Me, I’ll take vanilla.
