Mark Musashi
Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, known professionally as Mark Musashi, is a Wushu martial artist and a stuntman/actor or Gaijin tarento.
Biography
Raised in Buckfield, Maine to a Japanese mother and a White American father. His mother worked as an accountant while his father is a school teacher. He has an older sister, Margaret. He attended Dartmouth College, majoring in East Asian Languages and Literatures and minoring in Drama.He took the fall term of his senior year there to go to China to study Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. After college, he moved to Japan, where, after getting his start doing a women's underwear commercial, he was soon recruited by AAC Stunts.
Since then, he has worked on various tokusatsu series as a stunt/suit actor and even as a regular. Best known for his role as the mysterious murderer named Piece in the live-action drama Sh15uya, Musashi was also seen in Cutie Honey: The Live as Duke Seiya Anthony Watari IV, a bilingual gentleman in the service of the organization Panther Claw. He has participated in several Wushu competition championships and he has done motion capture for several video games. In 2008, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue American acting and stunt opportunities.
Since then, he's largely worked as a stunt performer in films, television shows and video games, with scattered speaking parts. In 2022, he was cast as Hansel, a High Table assassin, in The Continental: From the World of John Wick, a miniseries that premiered on Peacock in 2023.
Video game credits
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Sony Computer Entertainment
- Titanfall 2, Respawn Entertainment
- The Last of Us, Naughty Dog
- Lost Planet 2, Capcom
- Bayonetta, Sega
- God Hand, Capcom
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Konami - Yevgeny Borisvitch Volgin
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Konami - Liquid Snake
- Resident Evil Outbreak, Capcom
- Firefighter F.D.18, Konami
- Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated
- Dino Crisis 3, Capcom
- 7 Days to Die, The Fun Pimps
Movies
- Feral
- Welcome Back Satan
- Motion actor in Avatar
- Motion actor in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- Stunt coordinator in Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
- Wu in Yo-Yo Girl Cop
- Kamen Rider 2 in Kamen Rider the First
- LAPD in Devilman
- MP in Shibuya Monogartari
- Panter Claw in Cutie Honey
- Stunt work in ''Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack''
Television
- Hansel in The Continental: From the World of John Wick
- Stunt work in Iron Fist
- Stunt work in Wizards of Waverly Place season3 #9
- Stunt work in Dollhouse season2 #9
- Stunt work in Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight
- Mackiyo Taylor in CSI: NY season5 #8
- Stunt work in iCarly: iGo to Japan
- Duke Watari in Cutie Honey: The Live
- Kodama, DAN in Garo Special: Byakuya no Maju
- Kodama, ZERO in GARO
- Piece in ''Sh15uya''