The World Loses Mako Iwamatsu, One Fine Actor

Pioneearing Asian actor in Hollywood Mako Iwamatsu, who was often known just as "Mako," died last Friday, July 21 of esophageal cancer at his home in California. He was 72--only 72!

Such a fine actor, I am so sorry that his last movie was "Memoirs of a Geisha." (He made another movie, "Rise," starrting Lucy Liu, but I don't know when we get to see it.)

What a loss. He did so much... Read his bio here.

The next Academy Awards show better include him in the section where they feature those who died in the previous year...