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
- Jipangu (1990) as Tobatsu
- Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline (1991) as Hanayama
- Street Fighter (1994) as Captain Sawada
- Thunderbolt (1995) as Saw
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1996) as Yamada Motokazu
- B gai waak (1998) as Detective Takami
- Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi lai lee) (2000) as Inokichi Sakatsuka
- Ye long (2001) as Ryuya Tanaka
- Buyûden (2003)
- Shinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) (2009) as Nakajima
- Yip Man chin chyun (2010) as Kitano Yukio
- Dai mo seut si (2011) as Mitearai
- Hasami (2012) as Ken'ya
- Xie bu ya zheng (2018) as Nemoto Ichiro
- Huang Fei Hong: Nu hai xiong feng (2018) as Hattori Ichiro
References
- Stephen E. de Souza, Street Fighter (1994) commentary