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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...