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Mark Dacascos Films

Mark Dacascos so far has appeared in more than 30 films. Even more if you include the 3 TV movies he made and his movie debut in 1985 where unfortunately his scenes didn't make it through the cutting room.

You may know Mark Dacascos from Brotherhood of the Wolf, his most successful film to date or from his more popular and earlier movies such as The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Only the Strong and Crying Freeman.

Besides these titles however, there are dozens of other Mark Dacascos films. So let's check them all out below. They are listed from the latest releases down to Mark's first movie appearances.

New and Upcoming Mark Dacascos Movies - (2012 and 2013)

To Have and to Hold
- Directed by Ray Bengston.
- Also stars Rusty Joiner, Christopher Judge, Laura Bailey, Aiden Turner, Travis Willingham, and John A. Lorenz.
- To be released in 2012.

Trial of Arms
- Dacascos plays a character named Takeda.
- Also stars Peter Stormare.
- Written by Cody Yarbrough.
- To be released in 2013.

=> The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone (2011)

*Directed by Bill Muir, this is an adventure film about a boy named Billy who comes across an ancient medallion that will change his life forever. The medallion takes Billy and his friend Allie 200 years back in time in an island called Aumakua.

*The cast includes Billy Unger, Sammi Hanratty, Jansen Panettiere, James Hong, William Corkery, Tiya Sircar, Hal Rudnick, and Sidney S. Liufau.

*Mark Dacascos plays a character named Cobra who is the main villain in the movie.

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Mark Dacascos Movies: Complete List

1) Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart
2) Angel Town
3) Dead on the Money
4) American Samurai
5) Only the Strong
6) Roosters
7) Dragstrip Girl
8) Double Dragon
9) Deadly Past
10) Kickboxer 5: Redemption
11) Crying Freeman
12) The Island of Dr. Moreau
13) Sabotage
14) Sanctuary
15) DNA
16) Redline
17) Drive
18) Boogie Boy
19) No Code of Conduct
20) The Base
21) China Strike Force
22) Brotherhood of the Wolf
23) Instinct to Kill
24) Scorcher
25) Cradle 2 the Grave
26) Solar Attack
27) Junior Pilot
28) Only the Brave

29) The Hunt for Eagle One
30) The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
31) Nomad: The Warrior
32) Code Name - The Cleaner
33) Alien Agent
34) I Am Omega
35) Gideon Falls
36) Serbian Scars
37) Shadows in Paradise
38) Action Hero
39) Secret of the Sultan

1) Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)

Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart

Amazon Price: $39.95 (as of 06/02/2012)

This was supposed to be Mark Dacascos' film debut. Unfortunately, his scenes in this Wayne Wang-directed film didn't make it out of the cutting room. Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart follows the lives of a family of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California.

You can watch the full film below:

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2) Angel Town (1990)

Angel Town

Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 06/02/2012)

This was a film made in 1990, in an era where low budget martial arts movies were excellently made. Olivier Gruner is Jacques Fontaine, a French student who arrives in the US as an exchange student. He rents a room in a home owned by an innocent family who continues to be harassed by a gang of hoodlums. Jacques decides to do something about it.

3) Dead on the Money (1991)

Dead on the Money [VHS]

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4) American Samurai (1992)

American Samurai

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A samurai master adopts an American baby (the lone survivor of a plane crash in the mountains of Japan). The baby grows up alongside the samurai master's son (Dacascos). They are both educated and trained in the warrior's way. Things don't go as well between the stepbrothers. Out of envy, Dacascos abandons his father's home and joins the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Years later, due to a turn of events, they once again meet as combatants in a deadly martial arts tournament.

5) Only the Strong (1993)

Dacascos is a soldier who returns home to Miami after doing military service in Brazil only to find out that his former high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. Determined to help out, Dacascos starts teaching Brazilian capoeira to students. This however angers a local drug lord who makes it his mission to bring down Dacascos and his students.

6) Dragstrip Girl

Dacascos is a working class Latino guy who falls in love with a rich white girl. He's a bad boy who'd like to be good falling in love with a good girl who'd like to be bad. To top it off, the soundtrack includes music from the Grammy-award winning band Los Lobos.

7) Double Dragon

Alyssa Milano is in this movie. This fact alone should convince you to watch it if you haven't already. Even if Time magazine listed this movie in 2009 as one of the top ten worst video game movies. Anyway, Dacascos here is one of two brothers who have in their possession the other half of an ancient Chinese medallion called the "Double Dragon"

8) Deadly Past

Never before had a bartender in a movie been as good in kicking ass as the bartender in this movie. This bartender is of course Dacascos.

9) Kickboxer 5: the Redemption

Some fans of the Kickboxer movies are saying this is the worst movie in the series. Some say it's the best. Some say it's okay. Some say it's awesome. Some say it's crap. But if you're a Dacascos fan, this is a must-watch. Enough said.

10) Crying Freeman

A killer who cries after every kill. Hence the "Crying Freeman" nickname. This is without a doubt one of the most enjoyable Mark Dacascos films.

11) Sabotage (1996)

Sabotage

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A soldier's mission to save and protect hostages from terrorists goes wrong. Years later, he gets hired to protect some people only to see them assassinated. So he teams up with an FBI agent to go after the killers. Carrie Ann Moss of The Matrix fame co-stars.

12) DNA (1997)

DNA

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A mad scientist resurrects an ancient beast at a research facility in Borneo. The beast breaks loose. The killing begins.

13) Drive (1997)

Drive

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A human/machine hybrid prototype is on the run from hitmen. He takes a hostage and forces him to drive him to Los Angeles, California.

14) Redline (1997)

Redline

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Also called Deathline and Armageddon. A man and his girlfriend get murdered in futuristic Moscow, Russia. A Russian military organization brings the man back to life. He escapes and takes on a mission to exact revenge on his killers.

15) Boogie Boy (1998)

Boogie Boy

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A man gets out of prison determined to live a straight and clean life. A former cell mate convinces him to join him in one last drug deal. A big score. The deal however goes awry. Violence and the hunt for the two former cell mates begins.

16) Sanctuary (1998)

Sanctuary

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A hitman has seen enough of the atrocities that his organization does. And so he leaves and becomes a priest in some inner city church. His past however catches up with him and everything goes messy again.

17) No Code of Conduct (1998)

No Code of Conduct

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The death of a fellow detective sends a dedicated cop and his father into a mission to bring the killer or killers to justice. In doing so, they stumble across drug rings plotting to smuggle drugs into Phoenix, Arizona from Mexico.

18) The Base (1999)

The Base

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A US Army investigator is assigned to an army base near the US-Mexican border. His mission is to gather evidence about corruption within the base and drug dealing/smuggling perpetrated by military officials themselves.

19) China Strike Force (2000)

This is a cops vs drug lords movie. This time around Mark Dacascos is playing a villain. He is a vicious and power-hungry leader of the local mob. This movie boosts of an international cast including actors from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and America. American hip hop artist Coolio co-stars as a ghetto gangster.

20) Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

Brotherhood of the Wolf: Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Amazon Price: $19.50 (as of 06/02/2012)

This is without a doubt considered by many as the best Mark Dacascos film to date although he plays a sidekick here. He is a North American Indian brought to inner France by his French friend. They were sent to Gevaudan, France by the King to investigate the killings in the province by a mysterious beast aptly called "The Beast of Gevaudan".

21) Instinct to Kill (2001)

A woman marries a cop who she thinks is a very good man. It turns out however that he is a serial killer. So she gives him up to the authorities. The man is jailed but he escapes and is bent on exacting revenge on his ex-wife. To defend and protect herself, she learns self-defense from an expert (Mark Dacascos).

22) Scorcher (2002)

A nuclear testing by the Chinese accidentally damages the subterranean plates under the earth's crust. Thus threatening to destroy the earth in just a matter of days. Mark Dacascos leads a team to try to detonate two nuclear bombs in the city of Los Angeles and stop the end of the world from happening.

23) Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

A thief steals a collection of prized black diamonds. A gang kidnaps the thief's daughter and demands the thief to give them the diamonds in exchange for his daughter. Mark Dacascos stars as the leader of the gang. This movie also features cameos from UFC fighters like Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, and Randy Couture.

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Episode Review: Hawaii Five-0 - 2.22: "Ua Hopu": This episode was no different than any of the others centered around the nefarious Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos), emotionally driven, high action fun. But there was a lot of heart in this as well, and we have to thank Ian Anthony Dale and Grace Park for that.
“Hawaii Five-O”: Wo Fat returns in May 7 episode: Tomorrow night's (May 7) episode of ?Hawaii Five-0,? ?Ua Hopu? (which is Hawaiian for ?Caught?) follows Steve (Alex O'Loughlin) as he again takes on arch-nemesis Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos), while also battling the Japanese Yakuza, who is after both of them ...
Hawaii Five-0 – A season finale death in the family: I'm glad he wasn't killed though, and I get to watch Mark Dacascos be evil next season, too). But Joe doesn't get a chance to say much before Fryer's dead, and Max has been shot by an ex-con who then steals an HPD squad car, is chased around Honolulu, ...
HAWAII FIVE-0 2.22 'Ua Hopu' ('Caught'): On the plane back to the states, McGarrett asks if the blood in the bathroom belongs to Shelburne but Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) tells him that the mysterious figure continues to elude them both. When asked about Douglas, Wo Fat says she's the reason ...

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JziE Apr 16, 2012 @ 11:03 pm | delete

I always love Only The Strong. great capoeira movie

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filmic Jul 23, 2011 @ 9:30 am | delete

nice lens, very niche. I've never hear of Mark Dacascos and never seen any of these films. Will I like any of them if I hate Chuck Norris and thought Kickboxer 1 was the only good one?