ACTOR

Mako

1933 - 2006

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Makoto Iwamatsu (岩松 信, Iwamatsu Makoto, December 10, 1933 – July 21, 2006) was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ). His career in film, on television, and on stage spanned nearly fifty years and 165 productions, from 1959 to 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mako has received more than 200,262 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mako is the 237th most popular actor (up from 1,376th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Japan (up from 535th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Makos by language

Over the past year Mako has had the most page views in the with 37,223 views, followed by German (34,497), and English (24,998). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (259.06%), Simple English (178.80%), and Dutch (90.92%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mako ranks 237 out of 13,578. Before him are Liv Ullmann, Dennis Hopper, Anna Magnani, Dolph Lundgren, Lauren Bacall, and Ursula Andress. After him are Viggo Mortensen, Danny Trejo, Michel Piccoli, Bryan Cranston, Jayne Mansfield, and Jodie Foster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Mako ranks 22. Before him are Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, Heinrich Rohrer, Philip Roth, and Susan Sontag. After him are Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, Jayne Mansfield, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Paul Biya. Among people deceased in 2006, Mako ranks 18. Before him are Oriana Fallaci, Alfredo Stroessner, Saparmurat Niyazov, Owen Chamberlain, Heinrich Harrer, and György Ligeti. After him are Anna Politkovskaya, Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, Paul Mauriat, Johannes Rau, and Melvin Schwartz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mako ranks 61 out of 6,245. Before him are Koxinga (1624), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Emperor Suizei (-669), Liv Ullmann (1938), Junji Nishikawa (1907), and Empress Michiko (1934). After him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Hideki Yukawa (1907).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Mako ranks 3. Before him are Olivia de Havilland (1916), and Liv Ullmann (1938). After him are Sonny Chiba (1939), Joan Fontaine (1917), Ken Watanabe (1959), Takashi Shimura (1905), Setsuko Hara (1920), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Iroh (voice)
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
8.7 / 10
Seven Years in Tibet
Kungo Tsarong
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Sep 12o 19977.171 / 10
Pearl Harbor
Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
May 21o 20016.934 / 10