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.

Kenya Sawada
Born
Kanagawa, Japan
Nationality Japan
OccupationActor

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

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