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Kenji Sawada

Acting Born Jun 25, 1948 Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan 24 credits

Biography

Kenji Sawada (Japanese: 沢田 研二, Hepburn: Sawada Kenji; born June 25, 1948; real surname written as 澤田) is a Japanese singer, songwriter and actor, best known as vocalist of the rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed "Julie" (ジュリー, Jurī) because of his self-professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami, Japan (now part of Tottori), and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto from the age of age 3.

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Full filmography

  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) as Self
  • Midi Première (1975) as Self
  • Wind of the Ryūkyū Islands (1993)
  • Système 2 (1975) as Self
  • Audrey (2000) as 麻生祐二
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) as Osamu
  • Burning Mountain River (1984) as Charlie Tamiya
  • Capone Cries a Lot (1985) as Tetsugoro Osawa
  • Samurai Reincarnation (1981) as Shiro Amakusa
  • A Pool Without Water (1982) as Yakuza
  • The Street Lawyers (2006)
  • The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) as Makoto Kido
  • The Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) as Masao Katakuri
  • He's Like a Devil (1975) as Kamon Ryou
  • Hiruko the Goblin (1991) as Hieda Reijirou
  • It's a Flickering Life (2021) as Gō
  • Pistol Opera (2001) as Man at Tokyo Station
  • Yumeji (1991) as Yumeji Takehisa
  • Deaths in Tokimeki (1984) as Naoya Kudo
  • 陽のあたる場所 (1982)
  • Bakayarō! 4 You! (1991) as Hajime Shiraishi (segment "カラダだけの男")
  • Switch of Happiness (2006) as Seiichiro Inada
  • The Zen Diary (2022) as Tsutomu
  • Lover, Come Back to Me (1983)