is a Japanese film actor who has appeared in numerous movies, primarily in

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productions. He has occasionally been credited simply by his first name. Sawada was born in

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. 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

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''. He also appeared in the 2009 Jackie Chan film ''

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''. He played Captain Sawada in the Stephen de Souza-directed ''

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'' film, based on the fighting game series by the same name. Sawada appeared as part of a promotional deal with

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.Stephen E. de Souza, Street Fighter (1994) commentary 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 ''

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series.

Filmography

* 1990 ''Jipangu'' as Tobatsu * 1991 ''Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline'' as Hanayama * 1994 ''

'' as Captain Sawada * 1995 ''

'' 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

External links

Kenya Sawada official site
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澤田謙也チャンネル - official Youtube channel
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澤田謙也 - Hong Kong Movie Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sawada, Kenya 1965 births Living people Japanese male film actors Male actors from Kanagawa Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors