Ken Yamamura

Ken Yamamura

1986-01-21 14 Credits

Biography

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 ...

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Crosspoint

Crosspoint

2024

as Souta Kamimura

Acting

An illegal Filipino entertainer in Japan, Manuel, meets a bankrupt Japanese businessman, Shigeru. After knowing the whereabouts of a high-profile seri...

Gitling

Gitling

2024

as Makoto Kanno

Acting

While creating the subtitles of a film, a young Filipina translator and a middle-aged Japanese director test the limits of language and understanding.

Bad Lands

Bad Lands

2023

as Yukawa

6.9
Acting

A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.

Tetris

Tetris

2023

as Minoru Arakawa

7.7
Acting

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a danger...

Story Game

Story Game

2022

as Professor Emori

6.2
Acting

Who can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in Hawaii. But only one can win The Story Game.

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

2021

as Toshimaro Yoshida

6.6
Acting

Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji R...

People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan

People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan

2021

as Taka

6.5
Acting

Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches them that one...

Earthquake Bird

Earthquake Bird

2019

as Det. Oguchi

5.9
Acting

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photo...

Killing for the Prosecution

Killing for the Prosecution

2018

6.1
Acting

Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he w...

Sekigahara

Sekigahara

2017

as Nobukatsu Shima

7.0
Acting

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the...

Tokyo Project

Tokyo Project

2017

as Guy giving directions

6.4
Acting

On a business trip to Tokyo, Sebastian explores the city with a mysterious woman he keeps running into wherever he goes, discovering heartbreakingly t...

Godzilla

Godzilla

2014

as Takashi

6.3
Acting

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe....

The Wolverine

The Wolverine

2013

as Young Yashida

6.4
Acting

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

Double Happiness Uranium

Double Happiness Uranium

2013

as Mitch

Acting

The newly formed Independent Republic of South Australia is the phoenix that rises from the ashes of a decaying and corrupt Australian Commonwealth, b...