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Spotlight on Alumni Yuki Matsuzaki

Spotlight on Alumni Yuki Matsuzaki

Hard work and TOA training was recognized when Edward Zwick cast

alumni Yuki Matsuzaki for The Last Samurai in 2003. He booked roles in

the films Drunken Sword (2005) and Roku (2005). Clint Eastwood then

cast him as Nozaki in Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Yuki also was cast in

the TV shows Heroes and Better Off Ted (2006).



In 2009, Matsuzaki was cast in the supporting role of Kenji alongside Steve

Martin, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina and Aishwarya Rai as a member of an

international dream team of detectives in Pink Panther 2 (2009).

 

In 2010 he was cast in the romantic comedy How Do You Know as the

supporting role of Tori with Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Jack

Nicholson, and Owen Wilson.