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 ...

If your eyes didn’t well up with tears when Uncle Iroh (voiced by Mako Iwamatsu and Greg Baldwin) prepared a memorial for his late son, you must have at least rooted for him every time 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 ...

Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, Mako came to the U.S. when he was 15 to join his parents, who had left to study art in New York. He originally planned to become an architect, ...

Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, Alec Baldwin, Mako Iwamatsu, Michael Shannon, Matt Davis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...