Kenji Sawada (沢田 研二, Sawada Kenji, born June 25, 1948; real surname written as 澤田) is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed "Julie" (ジュリー, Jurī) because of his self professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami (now part of Tottori), Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3. He is married to Oshin star Yūko Tanaka, whom he met on the set of Tora-san, the Expert.
As a singer (often he also worked as a songwriter) and actor, Sawada prospered greatly on Japanese popular culture in the last three decades of the Showa era. At the end of the 1960s, he had great success as the lead singer of the band The Tigers. After the breakup of The Tigers and another project PYG, he began his own solo career.
Sawada was the lead singer of the best-known J-pop music act of the late 1960s Group Sounds era band The Tigers. A national teen idol, his nickname is Julie. Japanese pop stars of that era often adopted nicknames, particularly often English-language girls' names. His nickname is derived from the actress Julie Andrews as he is a fan of hers. The group was signed by Watanabe Productions.
Actors: Eiji Gô (actor), Ryôji Hayama (actor), Hiroshi Nawa (actor), Kaku Takashina (actor), Isao Tamagawa (actor), Asao Uchida (actor), Kôji Wada (actor), Fumio Watanabe (actor), Tetsuya Watari (actor), Chieko Matsubara (actress), Kaneo Iwai (producer), Mio Ezaki (writer), Goro Fujita (writer), Gan Yamazaki (writer), Harumi Ibe (composer),
Genres: Action, Thriller,open the ceremony gates
someone's life will end tonight
limbed, shredded
under the horns of the omnipotent
blood spills free
bleeding from all the sides
our sacrifice for thee
may satisfy thy hunger
unholy majesty
I depend on thee
hear my call give to me immortality
congest, blood overflows
rise the chalice, as he dies