"Your parents are traitors!" was the taunt that rang in the ears of a lonely little boy in Tokyo while Allied forces were embroiled in bloody engagements against Emperor Hirohito's Imperial troops in ...

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 ...

Japanese-American actor Mako, who was Oscar-nominated for his supporting role in “The Sand Pebbles” and who co-founded the nation’s first Asian-American theater company, died Friday of esophageal ...

Mako, 72, a Japanese-born actor who had a notable Hollywood film and television career and co-founded the East West Players, an early Asian American theater company, died July 21 at his home in Somis, ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Japanese-American actor Mako, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work in the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles, has died from esophageal cancer, the spokesman for a theater company he ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Born on December 10th, 1933 in Kobe Japan, Mako--who was born Makoto Iwamatsu--was ...

Baldwin, if you’re not aware, took over voicing the character of Aku in Samurai Jack after the death of Aku’s original voice actor, Makoto Iwamatsu or Mako, in 2006. Baldwin’s made a number of ...