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Japanese-English Andrew Koji almost quit acting before landing lead in action series Warrior
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Actor Andrew Koji plays Ah Sahm, a martial-arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco in the late 1800s.
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LOS ANGELES - Born to a Japanese father and an English mother, Andrew Koji struggled for many years to make it as an actor in Britain because of limited opportunities there for Asian performers.
But that all changed when he was cast as the lead in Warrior (2019 to present) - the sexy, bloody, Bruce Lee-created period drama that has returned for a second season on HBO Go and Cinemax (StarHub TV Channel 611 and Singtel TV Channel 424).
