Devon Aoki known for her role in "2 Fast 2 Furious" and as the badass assassin Miho in "Sin City" will be joining the cast of season three of CW's "Arrow" with a recurring role. According to Deadline Aoki will join the Warner Bros. television series as DC character Tatsu Yamashiro.
Yamashiro also known as Katana is described as "a Japanese martial arts expert who wields a deadly sword, a blade from which her codename Katana is derived." The character in the DC Comics world is a superb martial artist and fully trained samurai warrior. The character has had run in's with Batman, Black Canary and the Justice League.
Deadline reports that Yamashiro will play a role in Oliver Queen's (played by Stephen Amell) flashbacks. At the end of Season two Queen has left the island and ended up in Hong Kong. Yamashiro will be one of his mentors and a "critical influence on his journey to eventually become The Arrow of present day."
Previously TVLine reported that "Arrow" is currently looking to cast four new characters: two who will appear in present-day Sterling City and two that will be featured in Oliver’s flashbacks. The two new characters appearing in Sterling City are tentatively being called Daniel and Seth, though those may not be the actual character names. It was also said that the other two characters were named Toshi and Akiko but now we know that to be wrong and one of the flashback characters is Tatsu Yamashiro.
The new characters are needed especially after all the characters lost by the end of season two. Moira Queen (Susanna Thompson), Sebastian Blood (Kevin Alejandro), and Isabel Rochev (Summer Glau) were all killed; Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) was locked up in an A.R.G.U.S. supermax; Sarah Lance (Caity Lotz) left with the rest of the League of Assassins; and Thea Queen (Willa Holland) left Starling City with her birth father, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman).
"Arrow" season three is expected to premiere this fall October 8.
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