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I was clear: I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 27
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