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Ken Kazama

Actor, martial artist born October 6th, 1944 in Japan. During the 1960s he won two Karate championships, the Comprehensive Karate Championship in 1961 and a a Shorinji Kempo Championship in 1963.In the late 1960s, he won a middleweight kickboxing championship in South Korea. He also established some martial arts clubs in two universities. By the 1970s, he had moved into movies.He had the role of Kazamaki in Yukio Noda's [i]Gangster Cop[/i] which starred [a7488433] (aka Sonny Chiba). Kazama had the role of Spider, the nemesis of [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/7979878-Fred-Williamson-5]Fred Williamson[/url] in [i]That Man Bolt[/i]. He was a brutal official in [i]When Tae Kwon Do Strikes[/i] whih starred Jhoon Rhee, Angela Mao Ying and Sammo Hung. Both of those films were released in 1973. He played the part of Senkaku Kan in the 1974 action classic [i]The Street Fighter[/i] which was directed by Shigehiro Ozawa and starred Sonny Chiba. In 1976 he played the leading role of Yamanaka Musashi in [i]Karate from Shaolin Temple[/i] which was directed by Hideo Nanbu. He sang lead vocal on the single "Forever Bruce Lee" which was released on [l39040] YT-1081 around the mid to late 1970s. He was in [i]Kill Devil[/i], a film directed by Yûichi Onuma and released in 2004.