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is a Japanese model, film and
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, and television presenter signed to Ken-On. His second son, Kōta Nomura is also an actor.


Biography

Ikki Sawamura was born in
Kagoshima , abbreviated to , is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyushu, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of the Eastern wor ...
in 1967. After graduating from the local high school, he moved to Tokyo and started his career as a fashion model. In 1996, Sawamura debuted in a TV drama ''Matsuda no Drama'' as an actor. Since then, he has appeared in many television dramas and commercials. Sawamura married a Japanese ex-model in 2000, and has three sons. In public and some
variety show Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a comp ...
s, Sawamura often portrays his character as a sexually perverted personality. He is also a well-known fan of Bruce Lee. His hobbies are playing tennis, playing billiards and watching movies.


Filmography


Movies

* (1997) * (2006) * (2006) * (2009) * (2009) * (2009) * (2010) * (2016) *'' Ossan's Love: Love or Dead'' (2019) *''Love and the Grand Tug-of-war'' (2021) *''
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'' (2021)


TV dramas

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Asami Mitsuhiko series

is a mystery novel series created by Japanese author Yasuo Uchida. Many of the novels have been made into 2 hour one-episode drama by several different networks with the different casts. Sawamura played the protagonist Mitsuhiko Asami from part 14 in the series originally aired on TBS. *Part 11 as (October 26, 1998) *Part 14 (September 4, 2000) *Part 15 (March 19, 2001) *Part 16 (September 24, 2001) *Part 17 (September 23, 2002) *Part 18 (January 5, 2004) *Part 19 (April 12, 2004) *Part 20 (March 14, 2005) *Part 21 (December 26, 2005) *Part 22 (September 25, 2006) *Part 23 (March 26, 2007) *Part 24 (October 15, 2007) *Part 25 (April 7, 2008)


Voice acting

*, as David (2004) *''
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'', as Prof. Trevor Anderson in the Japanese dubbed version (2008) *''
Yakuza 4 is an action-adventure game developed and released by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The game was introduced on July 24, 2009. A promotional video was presented at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, The sequel to ''Yakuza 3'', it was released on March 18, ...
'', as Hiroaki Arai (2010)


Other works


TV shows

*''Ururun Taizaiki'' in Germany (September, 1998) *''Ururun Taizaiki'' in China (April, 2001) *''NEO - Office Chuckles'' - main cast (2005-ongoing) *''Ai no Muchi'' - presenter (October–December, 2006) *''The Future Professor Sawamura'' - presenter (October, 2007-April, 2008) *''The Future Professor Sawamura Z'' - presenter (April, 2008-ongoing) *''ITSUZAI'' - presenter (October, 2007-ongoing) *'' Tokyo-Kawaii TV'' - host (April, 2008-ongoing) *'Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!- cameo in No-Laughing Spy Batsu game(December 2011)


Commercials


References


External links

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Ikki Sawamura official web site


{{DEFAULTSORT:Sawamura, Ikki 1967 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Japanese male models Japanese television personalities People from Kagoshima Ken-On artists