Mahjong at the movies?

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Spenser: For Hire
TV series (season 2 episode 18)
Robert Urich, 1987
Filming location: Chinatown, Boston, Massachusetts

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Mako- Japanese American actor
AKIRO the wizard in the CONAN movies

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Thanks, Steve, for this nice addition with pics.

From a distance I keep thinking that's Chevy Chase on the right in the first image.

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Here's a random media appearance - an odd pic of a mahjong parlour on the cover art of a new EP in my Bandcamp music feed (German artist and record label).

https://thenotwist.bandcamp.com/album/ship

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Mahjong appears in a 2019 episode of The Flash with some flashy gold-backed tiles.

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I found a nice table in a Chinatown gang hideout in the video game Watch Dogs 2.

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Here's a two-player game of "penny mahjong" in season 2 of Lethal Weapon. (2018)

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She caught him cheating with tiles in his boot. (ouch!)

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Here's a quick mention in the first episode of superhero series The Boys. (2019)

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A difference of opinion in season 3 of Bob's Burgers. (2012)

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I only just started watching so I have 200 episodes to ketchup on.

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Tohai (2013) is a live-action series based on a manga about a high-school student drawn into an underworld of gambling.

Just spotted that Amazon Prime Video has both seasons of this, listed under the translated + original title - "Frozen Tiles TOHAI".

It has the original Japanese dialogue but English subtitles. Seems to have a good focus on the tabletop action (so far).

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