Kenji Sawada was born on 25 June 1948 in Tottori, Japan. He is a music artist and actor, known for Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) and Tsuchi o kurau jûnikagetsu (2022). He has been married to Yûko Tanaka since 1989. He was previously married to Emi Itô.