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Kenji Sawada

Kenji Sawada

June 25, 1948 (76 years old)

The Zen Diary

V.O.: Tsuchi o kurau jûnika getsu
Jap. 2023. Drama by Yuji Nakae with Kenji Sawada, Takako Matsu, Naomi Nishida. Recluse in the mountains, a gourmet writer, who is occasionally visited by his girlfriend and publisher, refuses to bury the ashes of his wife, who died 13 years ago.
Runtime: 111 min.

The Happiness of the Katakuris

V.O.: Katakuri-ke no kofuku
Jap. 2001. Horror comedy by Takashi Miike with Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda. A family moves to the mountains to run an inn when, suddenly, their guests start behaving strangely and disturbingly.
Runtime: 113 min.
Jap. 1991. Fantasy by Seijun Suzuki with Kenji Sawada, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Mariya. A painter and poet gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.
Runtime: 128 min.

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