0:00 I was still watching Disney as a senior. >> 15. Yeah, I'm too old for that. >> I was doing Ecstasy and probably breaking into homes. So, >> this would be really good on Ecstasy. [laughter] >> You guys should watch it now on >> Watch Johnny Tsunami on Ecstasy, guys. >> Or mushrooms. >> Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. Today, we are mourning the loss of a very treasured actor in our community. >> RIP. It is Carrie Horyuki Tagawa. You might know him from such films as Mortal Kombat, >> Shang Tsung. >> Uh, Bonos knows him from something else. >> Maybe he's something else. It's Johnny Tsunami. It's a big deal. >> He was a big deal. Johnny Tsunami, dude. >> Also, Blood in Blood Out, right? Open your eyes. I see. >> I thought this American American me. >> American me. American me. American me. >> Yeah. Yeah. He's American me.
0:51 >> Original Asian Cholo. >> Yeah. He usually got a lot of villain roles, but this dude is a legend. He died from a stroke. Uh, complications from a stroke at age of 75. Uh, Santa Barbara. >> He looks good for 75, man. >> Dang. >> Yeah, that's Yeah, I always I always told Subin he looked like an old ass Subin. >> He does look like Subie. >> He does >> with less tats. >> So, you saw you know him from Mortal Kombat? >> Yeah, dude. >> And you've never heard of You've never heard of Johnny Tsunami? >> He played a lot of villain roles, too. >> Johnny Tsunami, [laughter] >> a classic Disney movie. Did you need to have Disney to watch it? >> I didn't have Disney. >> Not the subscription. This was back in the day when [laughter] it was on Disney Channel. >> Like cable. Like cable. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. I didn't have it. >> You can watch on Disney Plus. >> You saw some people had Nickelodeon, whatever. I didn't have Nickelodeon, >> bro. Make Tao watch this movie, bro. >> What the heck did you watch?
1:41 >> KTLA or some ████ Kal 9 News. >> Cool teens watch this, dude. >> Oh, dude. He was so cool. >> I think I was too old when this came out. >> You know what the movie is about? The movie is about a young lad from Hawaii and he has he live in like Colorado or some ████ >> Vermont. He moved to Vermont. >> Whatever, dude. Whatever. Nerd. >> Wait, what what channel was What channel was this on? >> He was getting bullied cuz he was a surfer. >> Oh, that's why I I wasn't too old. I just didn't have Disney Channel. I didn't have cable. >> Look, 1999. >> We're too old by this time. You're a ████ senior in high school. Like, who's watching? >> I was still watching Disney as a senior. >> 15. Yeah, I'm too old for that. >> I was doing Ecstasy and probably breaking into homes. So, >> this would be really good on Ecstasy. >> I am. You guys should watch it now on Ecstasy. watch Johnny Tsunami on Ecstasy Guys or Mushrooms. >> He didn't have cable TV. I had to go to my friend's house to watch Rugrats.
2:31 >> A >> apparently he was in uh Planet of the Apes, too. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> He was in a lot of stuff. >> Yeah, he played the Japanese monkey. >> He was like the main Oh my god, he chopped the guy's arm off. Have you guys seen that that sentiment that a lot of like Asian um I guess like Asian Hollywood is upset that Well, I'm sure with with Grounds that um some guys just get keep getting cast as bad guys like Asian guys. >> I feel like he plays it well. >> What's bad about that? They're they got constant work. What about the ████ that's like I just want to get booked for once. [laughter] >> This probably has like a mansion somewhere in Santa Barbara or whatever. He ain't complaining. >> I think it's that sentiment of like Oh, you're perpetuating the stereotype that like the Asians are the nefarious one and and they just have to like fight against the righteous white people. >> What about Mr. Miyagi? That was the good
3:21 coach. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I think that's why that was like not groundbreaking, but that was like next level. >> What? Karate Kid. Yeah. >> Cuz it wasn't an Asian villain. It was like it was a white villain. It was white-on-white crime. >> It was the Cobra Kai and all that ████ But you know what's funny though? At the end of the day, Cobra Kai was their overload lord was a Japanese villain though. It was Japanese on Japanese crime. >> Oh, that's right. By the second one, right? >> Yeah, because like um spoiler >> the backstory, >> you know, Mr. Miyagi and his buddy. >> It's like it's like the Rayu and Ken story. They're like both like homies and then one goes evil. >> Yeah. >> Dang. Which movie is this that he's against Wesley Snipes? >> Why is he wearing a neck tie with no t-shirt? Gotta watch the movie to find out.
4:11 >> On the shoulder. >> He was in Memoirs of a geisha, too. I >> Wow. >> Yeah. He was playing one of the geishas. >> Shut up. [laughter] Wesley Snipes. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. He was cool, man. >> He's so cool. >> Yeah. I don't know. Maybe we were too like young to care, but I always thought whether an Asian guy was playing bad or good, I was ████ stoked. I was >> just happy to see Asian guy on TV. >> It was cool to see it. >> I was like, "Hell yeah." >> I didn't care if it was Bobby Lee or him or anybody. >> But I don't know. I don't remember what he thought about it if he was like, "This is ████ up. They keep making me play bad guys and I have to do this." >> Yeah, but that's what I was saying. He played a lot of villains. But he looks evil though. >> He's such a good villain. >> But is it is it an Asian villain or he has the villain face to me? >> Yeah, >> he looks like a mafia dude, >> bro. He's Shang Tsung, dude. It's like the >> I would I wouldn't cast him in sister act. [laughter]
5:03 >> You know what? in Johnny Tsunami. Oh, that guy too. >> He was a cool grandpa >> and he was really good at that. >> Cool grandpa. >> And he was not a bad guy. >> He was a cool grandpa. >> He was a really cool surfer dude grandpa. >> But this is when he was younger, so I think he had to be a little bit older to to become Mr. Miyagi status. >> Man, those two are the OGs right there, man. >> Yeah, he looks like a Yakuza boss. How you going to get You want that guy to be like I don't know. [laughter] >> I could I could do that, I think. Yeah. Like what do you want him to be? get punched and just slide down. >> I want to watch these movies now >> cuz if he was in like a Karate Kid storyline, he he feels like he looks better in the Cobra High School already. Yeah, >> he's too badass looking. >> You need a guy with softer, kinder features. >> He's probably in so many of the movies that we love, like the the what is it?
5:54 Unintentionally comedic action films. >> Oh, he was in a walker. Texas Ranger. >> Oh ████ Who would you guys cast on the on in this room as the bad guy? Who would play the best bad guy? >> The best bad guy, >> dude. Barton. >> Barton? What? >> Barton, dude. >> Nick would look like the bad guy. >> No way. >> No, Nick's a bad guy. >> Look how scary this guy is. >> Nick's the most intimidating. >> No, Bart's our next ████ bolo young. >> What's your game face? >> My what? >> What's your game face? >> Nice guy, though. >> No, Bart's a good Bart's [laughter] a good uh the last guy you have to fight before you get to the main guy. >> He's not the boss. >> He's like the boss, man. >> Or henchman. [laughter] >> I think Joe would be a good bad guy. A good Yakuza based. >> He would be. Yeah. >> Maybe if I grow my hair out again, I could I could replace Oh, I missed those cars. >> Oh, Macgyver. He was in MacGyver, too. >> Oh, he in everything. Just [laughter] tackled his ass. >> We got him. >> Yeah. What a cool guy, man.
6:45 >> Beat up by a lady in this movie. >> Hey, >> is that Tropic Thunder? >> Looks like it. >> The prequel. [laughter] >> By the way, this acting re's 25 minutes long. >> Okay, go to the end. Go to the end. >> Accomplished actor, man. >> See his later stuff. >> That's an accomplished actor. It's I don't I don't Yeah, I don't think it's chronological. >> That guy's eyes are so far apart. >> What movie is this? This looks like something you've probably seen. >> He got a funny toe. I I don't watch a lot of samurai stuff. Especially not when the white guy's the main character, dude. >> He's like, I can't believe I did that. >> He looks really young here, dude. >> How old do you think he is at this point? >> Probably like 48. Is this Highlander? >> Not 48. >> It's dope that he's been buffed, too. Yeah, he's Jack, bro. >> Like if you're talking about breaking stereotypes, like he's he's like a buff dude since day one. >> Seen American Me. >> This is probably his best role.
7:35 >> Open your eyes. >> I thought that was so funny cuz it was an Asian guy saying that. >> Open your eyes. V. >> Open. >> See, I told you. >> Open your eyes. Vart. >> Oh yeah. So gangster. >> Here we go. Here we go. HE LOOKS LIKE SOUVENIR, DUDE. >> Open your eyes. >> No, >> open your eyes. Is a gangster. >> I like I wish he said open your eyes essay though. Actually, >> the fact [laughter] that we Mandela affected that and we were calling it essay the whole time. >> I've been saying that for like a decade probably. >> I feel like the they wrote that so racistly. Like they they thought it would be so funny to have a Asian guy
8:25 say that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Because their eyes are small. >> Is there context to why he's Asian and in the Mexican gang? >> Based off a true story. There's a Japanese member um in the Mexican mafia. Well, I don't know if he was in it, but he was a part of the whole circle and there's a whole thing about him. He he actually trafficked a lot of ████ to Hawaii. >> Really? >> Same thing as the the white guy, the bald guy. Cuz in that crew, Yeah. There was a Japanese dude and then there was a a white looking Mexican dude, but he's actually Mexican. >> Oh, >> so it's actually based off Yeah. like a true group. >> There's actually a lot of Japanese guys in me in in um the Mexican gangs because a lot of them grew up in Boil Heights. Oh, >> I Yeah, I have a I have a friend and you know him too that was in
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