is a Japanese-born film actor who has appeared in numerous movies, primarily in Hong Kong productions. He has occasionally been credited simply by his first name.
Sawada was born in Kanagawa, Japan. 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.Stephen E. de Souza, Street Fighter (1994) commentary Initially, Capcom intended Sawada to play Ryu in the film, however, his poor knowledge of English at the time made the casting difficult.
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 Film Year Title Role Notes 1990 Jipangu Tobatsu 1991 Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline Hanayama Direct-to-video 1994 Street Fighter Captain Sawada 1995 Thunderbolt "Saw" 1996 Somebody Up There Likes Me Yamada Motokazu 1998 B gai waak Detective Takami 2000 Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi lai lee) Inokichi Sakatsuka 2001 Ye long Ryuya Tanaka 2003 Buyûden Azuma Goro 2009 Shinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) Nakajima Hiromasa 2010 Yip Man chin chyun Kitano Yukio 2011 The Great Magician Mitearai 2012 Hasami Ken'ya 2018 Hidden Man Nemoto Ichiro 2018 Huang Fei Hong: Nu hai xiong feng Hattori Ichiro
Television Year Title Role Notes 1992 Tokugawa Buraichō Ep. 8 1993 Itoshi no Deka Attack group member Ep. 19
Video games Year Title Role Notes 1995 Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade version) Captain Sawada 1995 Street Fighter: The Movie (console version) Captain Sawada
References
External links Kenya Sawada official site
澤田謙也チャンネル - official Youtube channel
澤田謙也 - Hong Kong Movie Database