Ken Yamamura
Ken Yamamura, born Kennosuke Yamamura (山村 憲之介, Yamamura Kennosuke, born January 21, 1986), is a Japanese actor best known for playing the younger Ichirō Yashida / Silver Samurai (sharing the main antagonist's role with Haruhiko Yamanouchi) in the 2013 film The Wolverine, and Takashi in the 2014 remake of Godzilla. Yamamura was born in Osaka on January 21, 1986. He studied drama at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. After graduating, he has not missed a chance to have a role in a Hollywood blockbuster. In 2013, Yamamura made his first acting appearance as the younger Ichiro Yashida / Silver Samurai in the American superhero film The Wolverine, which had starred Hugh Jackman. The following year, he went on to portray the role of Takashi, the associate of Bryan Cranston's character, in the 2014 remake of Godzilla. In 2019, he then appeared to portray as the character Oguchi in the thriller crime drama film Earthquake Bird, featuring Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough, which was released by Netflix on November 15, 2019. In 2021, Yamamura has portrayed Taka in the film People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan.
Godzilla
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Movie pageBad Lands
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as Young YashidaWolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits -...
Movie pageEarthquake Bird
as Det. OguchiTokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate...
Movie pageSekigahara
as Nobukatsu ShimaThe background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in...
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Movie pagePeople Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
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Movie pageKilling for the Prosecution
as uncreditedYoung public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public...
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as MitchThe newly formed Independent Republic of South Australia is the phoenix that rises from the...
Movie pageHyphen
as Makoto KannoWhile creating the subtitles of a film, a young Filipina translator and a middle-aged Japanese...
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as Shou SaitoOver the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before...
TV Show pageTokyo Vice
as ReporterA first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American...
TV Show pageGiri/Haji
as EijiSoulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder...
TV Show pageDates in Real Life
as TetsuoIda spends most of her life online. When her boyfriend Marvin, whom she's never met in person,...
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