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Masanori Toguchi

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Movies: 8Series: 5

TMDB ID: 1808144

IMDb ID: nm0498365

Known for: Acting

Born: February 7, 1948

Age: 78

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1973 - 1992

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 6.22

Wikidata: Q11315670

Also known as

Tiger Chung Lee • Kim Duk • Tiger Toguchi • Ultra Seven • YAMATO • Masanori Toguchi

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Biography

Masanori Toguchi (戸口正徳, Toguchi Masanori) or Kim Duk (Korean: 김 덕/金徳) is a semi-retired Zainichi-Korean professional wrestler, better known under his ring name Kim Duk (キム・ドク). He was also known by the name Tiger Chung Lee in WWE. In 1986, while wrestling in the U.S. for WWE, Kim Duk made his acting debut as a henchman of Charles Dance's character, Sardo Numspa, in The Golden Child, which starred Eddie Murphy. Two years later, he portrayed a Georgian mobster named Andrei 'The Mongol Hippie' in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Red Heat. A year later, he acted in two more films, Blind Fury starring Rutger Hauer, and Cage, starring Lou Ferrigno. In 2012, after a long hiatus from acting, Kim Duk portrayed Lee in the film, Mountain Mafia.

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