Mako Iwamatsu's final scene for 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is a tearjerker. However, there's more to this emotional scene with Iroh than meets the eye.

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 ...

Mako, 72, whose birth name was Makoto Iwamatsu, died this past Friday at his home in Somis, Calif., northwest of Los Angeles, said Jay Africa, marketing director of the East West Players theater ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mako, a Japanese-American actor nominated for an Oscar and Tony, died of esophageal cancer at his home in Ventura County, Calif., on Friday. He was 72.

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 ...