Kenya Sawada
Kenya Sawada (澤田 拳也, Sawada Ken'ya, born January 28, 1965) is a Japanese film actor who has appeared in numerous movies, primarily in Hong Kong productions. He has occasionally been credited simply by his first name.
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Sawada was born in Kanagawa. His first appearance was in a Japanese film Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline. Sawada's only other Japanese productions include Buyûden and Hasami as well as the 1998 Hong Kong-Japanese production B gai waak. Instead, Sawada has appeared more prominently in numerous Hong Kong productions, beginning with a minor role in the 1995 Jackie Chan film Thunderbolt. He also appeared in the 2009 Jackie Chan film Shinjuku Incident.
He played Captain Sawada in the Stephen de Souza-directed Street Fighter film, based on the fighting game series by the same name. Sawada appeared as part of a promotional deal with Capcom.[1] Like most of the cast he also did the screen-capture for the video-game rendition based on the movie, Street Fighter: The Movie. Sawada has also been involved in the Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie as a script coordinator and has a writing credit for the Street Fighter II V anime series.
Filmography
- 1990 Jipangu as Tobatsu
- 1991 Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline as Hanayama
- 1994 Street Fighter as Captain Sawada
- 1995 Thunderbolt as "Saw"
- 1996 Somebody Up There Likes Me as Yamada Motokazu
- 1998 B gai waak as Detective Takami
- 2000 Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi lai lee) as Inokichi Sakatsuka
- 2001 Ye long as Ryuya Tanaka
- 2003 Buyûden
- 2009 Shinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) as Nakajima
- 2010 Yip Man chin chyun as Kitano Yukio
- 2011 Dai mo seut si as Mitearai
- 2012 Hasami as Ken'ya
- 2018 Xie bu ya zheng as Nemoto Ichiro
- 2018 Huang Fei Hong: Nu hai xiong feng as Hattori Ichiro
References
- Stephen E. de Souza, Street Fighter (1994) commentary