Japanese actor on American TV

[American Oyaji]

I'm watching "Without A Trace" and there is a famous Japanese actor (I can't remember his name) who plays in a lot of samurai drama's.
He's playing a Yakuza boss.

[American Oyaji]

Yeah! That's him.

Thanks!

[Socratesabroad]

I was overjoyed to hear the fluid, correctly pronounced Japanese of the American investigator based in Tokyo in the episode (Odds and Evens). And God it was great to hear Hiroki Matsukata playing a character who actually sounds like a Japanese gangster.

Contrast this with a recent episode of CSI-NY in which a broker's disgruntled client barks crap, unintelligible Japanese at his moll girlfriend (replete with tatoos, suggesting she's more likely Chinese or Filipino).

At least one American TV show finally got it right...

[jingai]

Yeah, I had to laugh when I saw Matsukata on the show- I was not expecting that! (I've seen him plenty of times in Fukasaku Kinji movies and even mocked by the gaijin Tekken on a Beat Takeshi show).
The plot about the American solidiers was utterly ridiculous and improbable, so it was too bad that more of the show wasn't about yakuza.

[American Oyaji]

Yeah, they got the Japanese right, but there are NO gambling dens where GI's go that I'm aware of.