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Shang Tsung

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Shang Tsung is a fictional boss and player character from the Mortal Kombat series. A powerful evil sorcerer, he is a demonic shapeshifter who absorbs the living souls of those he defeats in order to maintain his youth and power and is able to change his appearance, including by morphing into other characters while retaining their abilities and movesets in-game. Shang Tsung is usually portrayed as the right-hand man of series archvillain Shao Kahn and the main rival and archenemy of the series' early protagonist, Liu Kang.

Shang Tsung debuted as the main antagonist of the original Mortal Kombat, serving as the in-game tournament's grandmaster and the game's boss. He has since appeared in several games and other media spawned from the franchise, and was received positively by game critics.

Best films

Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat
(1995)

Played by the actors

Chin Han
Chin Han
(1 films)
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
(1 films)
James Lew
James Lew
(1 films)
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Filmography of Shang Tsung (3 films)

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Mortal Kombat: Rebirth
Mortal Kombat: Rebirth (2010)
, 8minutes
Directed by Kevin Tancharoen
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Fantasy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Films based on video games
Actors Michael Jai White, Jeri Ryan, Lateef Crowder, Ian Anthony Dale, James Lew, Jamie Bernadette
Rating78% 3.931663.931663.931663.931663.93166
The film follows Deacon City Police Captain Jackson Briggs as he informs assassin Hanzo Hasashi about the criminals Reptile and Baraka; the latter has recently killed actor-turned-undercover-officer Johnny Cage in a fight. Briggs believes they were both working for a man named Shang Tsung. He asks Hasashi to kill them in a mysterious tournament hosted by Tsung. When offered his freedom in exchange for accomplishing such tasks, Hasashi reveals that he willingly had himself incarcerated—and could free himself at any time. Then Sonya Blade arrives with a folder and informs Hasashi that his enemy Sub-Zero is alive and the one he killed was his older brother. It becomes clear to Hasashi that the terms of his participation in the tournament involve killing Reptile, Baraka and Shang Tsung in return for access to Sub-Zero. Since the real Sub-Zero will be at the tournament, Hasashi, now calling himself Scorpion, agrees to participate.
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1995)
, 1h41
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Sports films, Martial arts films, Films about video games, Films based on video games
Actors Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Talisa Soto, Christophe Lambert
Rating58% 2.9005152.9005152.9005152.9005152.900515
The film is centered on Mortal Kombat, a fight tournament between the representatives the realms of Earth and Outworld conceived by the Elder Gods amid looming invasion of the Earth by Outworld. If the realm of Outworld wins Mortal Kombat ten consecutive times, its Emperor Shao Kahn will be able to invade and conquer the Earth realm.