Mako

Mako

Birthday: 1933-12-10

Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan

Biography: Mako was born in Kobe, Japan, the son of noted children's book author and illustrator Taro Yashima. His parents moved to the United States when he was a small child. He joined them there after World War II, in 1949, joining the military in the 1950s. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1956. When Mako first joined his parents in the USA, he studied architecture. During his military service, he discovered his theatrical talent, and trained at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Mako was married to actress Shizuko Hoshi with whom he had two daughters (both are actresses) and three grandchildren.

Movies

Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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TMNT
TMNT

After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. ...

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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

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Rise: Blood Hunter
Rise: Blood Hunter

A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the unde...

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Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades ...

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Pacific Heights
Pacific Heights

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately ...

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RoboCop 3
RoboCop 3

The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City,...

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The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the...

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Sidekicks
Sidekicks

Asthmatic teenager Barry Gabrewski is a daydreamer. Troubled by bullying, he escapes into a fantasy ...

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Bulletproof Monk
Bulletproof Monk

A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around t...

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Highlander III: The Sorcerer
Highlander III: The Sorcerer

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Jap...

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The Killer Elite
The Killer Elite

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of ...

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Rising Sun
Rising Sun

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...

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Conan the Destroyer
Conan the Destroyer

Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bo...

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Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for ye...

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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his in...

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The Bird People in China
The Bird People in China

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After ...

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Silent Assassins
Silent Assassins

The evil criminal leader Kendrick has kidnapped an elderly biochemist who holds the secret to creati...

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Cages
Cages

An estranged family goes through the painful process of healing their wounds in this drama set in mo...

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The Island at the Top of the World
The Island at the Top of the World

A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious...

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An Eye for an Eye
An Eye for an Eye

Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he ...

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The Last Ninja
The Last Ninja

A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hosta...

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Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

A group of rambunctious toddlers travel a trip to Paris. As they journey from the Eiffel Tower to No...

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The Challenge
The Challenge

All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to se...

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Under the Rainbow
Under the Rainbow

In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a w...

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Kung Fu: The Movie
Kung Fu: The Movie

In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being th...

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Armed Response
Armed Response

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offerin...

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The Big Brawl
The Big Brawl

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight compe...

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Silence
Silence

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr...

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Sworn to Justice
Sworn to Justice

After masked attackers kill her sister and young nephew, a female psychologist takes the law into he...

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The Hawaiians
The Hawaiians

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties....

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Cruel Game
Cruel Game

The con is on when a gorgeous LA playboy tries to juggle four beautiful women and gets more than he ...

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P.O.W. The Escape
P.O.W. The Escape

Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the ...

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Girls of the White Orchid
Girls of the White Orchid

In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job...

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The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to br...

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Red Sun Rising
Red Sun Rising

Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho. H...

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The Wash
The Wash

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who i...

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The Great Bank Robbery
The Great Bank Robbery

A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas...

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Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. ...

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The Bushido Blade
The Bushido Blade

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is sto...

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The Sea Wolf
The Sea Wolf

Thrown overboard while conducting an environmental investigation, Humphrey Van Weyden is as good as ...

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Fatal Mission
Fatal Mission

A CIA Agent must rely on reluctant help from a female spy in the North Vietnam jungle in order to pa...

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Midnight Man
Midnight Man

When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing a m...

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Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders

China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the nigh...

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An Unremarkable Life
An Unremarkable Life

The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic fe...

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The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet

After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a c...

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Nightingale
Nightingale

Captivated by its sweet song, an emperor takes a nightingale into his palace as his companion. But w...

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The Slanted Screen
The Slanted Screen

From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen exam...

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A Dangerous Place
A Dangerous Place

When Ethan's older brother Greg is found dead, the police rule the case a suicide, but Ethan suspect...

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Hawaiian Heat
Hawaiian Heat

Two Chicago cops quit their jobs in the Windy City to become detectives in Hawaii. TV movie that ser...

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Prisoners
Prisoners

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is im...

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Never So Few
Never So Few

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II....

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McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied...

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Balance of Power
Balance of Power

A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shak...

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Testament
Testament

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, new...

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When Hell Was in Session
When Hell Was in Session

This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held i...

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Farewell to Manzanar
Farewell to Manzanar

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II...

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Wataridori: Birds of Passage
Wataridori: Birds of Passage

This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of ...

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Yokahama Mama
Yokahama Mama

Blue Racer finds out that the Japanese chicken in the local farm has laid an egg. Blue Racer wastes ...

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The Perfect Weapon
The Perfect Weapon

Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the ...

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Taking Care of Business
Taking Care of Business

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in t...

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Crying Freeman
Crying Freeman

A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, i...

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My Samurai
My Samurai

A boy, Peter McCrea, witnesses a gangland murder. He turns to his martial arts teacher, Young Park, ...

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The Ugly Dachshund
The Ugly Dachshund

The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dan...

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Pacific Overtures
Pacific Overtures

In 1853 Japan, the story follows the Westernization of Japan, mainly through the story of Kayama, a ...

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The Nightingale
The Nightingale

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship....

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Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

A small boy is sent away from his village. He is to be trained as a samurai warrior and return to fi...

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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, America...

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Murder in Paradise
Murder in Paradise

A stressed-out, big-city cop seeks refuge in Hawaii, only to become embroiled in a serial murder cas...

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Strawberry Road
Strawberry Road

Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural Cali...

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The Accomplice
The Accomplice

This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi....

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Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
Alegría: An Enchanting Fable

Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus e...

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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Fools
Fools

A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney....

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If Tomorrow Comes
If Tomorrow Comes

In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly...

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Riot
Riot

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a batt...

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