Mark Musashi

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Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi (born April 26, 1977 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan), better known by the stage name Mark Musashi (マーク武蔵, Māku Musashi^?), is a Wushu martial artist and a stuntman/actor or Gaijin tarento. Raised in Buckfield, Maine, he attended Dartmouth College (Class of 1999), 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, Fulenwider was most recently 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.

[edit] Video Game Credits

• God Hand (2006), Capcom
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004), Konami - Yevgeny Borisvitch Volgin (motion actor)
• Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (2004), Konami - Liquid Snake (motion actor)
• Resident Evil: Outbreak (2004), Capcom
• Firefighter F.D.18 (2004), Capcom
• Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (2003), Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated
• Dino Crisis 3 (2003), Capcom

[edit] Television/Movies

• Unknown stunt work in "Kamen Rider Dragon Knight" (live action, remake of Kamen Rider Ryuki 2008) (American)
• Duke Watari in "Cutie Honey The Live" (live action TV 2007) (Japanese)
• Kodama, ZERO (suit actor) in "Ougon Kishi GARO" (live action TV 2005-2006) (Japanese)
• Piece in Sh15uya (live action TV 2005) (Japanese)
• Kamen Rider 2 (suit actor) in Kamen Rider the First
• Appeared in Devilman Movie as a Texas policeman freaking out over a demon

[edit] External links

• Mark Musashi clip in 2003 Wushu Competition
• Musashi's official weblog (AAC Stunts)
• Musashi's Blogger page
• Interview with Mark Musashi (HenshinJustice.com)
• Mark Musashi on the Internet Movie Database