Mako Iwamatsu, the Japanese-American acting pioneer who opened the doors for Asian Americans to Hollywood, died of esophageal cancer at his home in southern California on Friday, the Los Angeles Times ...

Once again I am free to smite the world as I did in days long past. —Aku, the Master of Masters, the Deliverer of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow, etc. “He was one of the early truly trained actors who ...

LOS ANGELES – Mako, the Japan-born actor who used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles” to push for better roles for Asian-American actors, has died. He was 72. Mako, whose birth ...

In the early days of his acting career, when most roles offered to Asian-American actors were caricatures or stereotypes, Makoto “Mako” Iwamatsu took just such a part and used it to open the doors of ...

James Hong dug into his own pocket decades ago and pooled his resources with fellow actor Mako Iwamatsu to produce “Roshamon” in a small Los Angeles church. It was their attempt to have an ...