---
name: "Tetsu Sawaki"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tetsu-sawaki"
fi1m_id: "tetsu-sawaki"
imdb_id: "nm0768017"
tmdb_id: 68111
wikidata_id: "Q3546871"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 August 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:59:39.269211+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tetsu Sawaki

## Identity

Tetsu Sawaki

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tetsu-sawaki
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tetsu-sawaki
- **IMDb ID:** nm0768017
- **TMDB ID:** 68111
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3546871
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsu_Sawaki, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3546871, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768017/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68111

Actor. Born 24 August 1982 in Osaka, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 August 1982, Osaka, Japan
- **Also known as:** 泽木哲
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsu_Sawaki, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3546871, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768017/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68111

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Audition*](https://film.one/film/audition.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tetsu Sawaki, also credited as 沢木哲, is a Japanese former actor. Born Akihiro Kuremura on 24 August 1982 in Osaka, he appeared in films and television from the late 1990s until the early 2000s.

He is known for his role as Shigehiko Aoyama in Takashi Miike’s *Audition* (1999), Retsuya Inubushi in *All About Lily Chou-Chou* (2001) and Kei in *Bright Future* (2003). Other credits include *Harmful Insect* (2001), *Hush!* (2001) and *Boogiepop and Others* (2000).

Sawaki later left acting and works as a tax advisor in Osaka.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, asianwiki.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Audition* (2000), Fi1m 84, as Shigehiko Aoyama — [page](https://film.one/film/audition.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Border Line* (2003), Actor
- *Bright Future* (2003), as Kei
- *Harmful Insect* (2002), as Takao
- *All About Lily Chou-Chou* (2001), as Retsuya Inubushi
- *Go Heat Man!* (2001), Actor
- *Hush!* (2001), as Makoto
- *Enclosed Pain* (2000), Actor
- *Boogiepop and Others* (2000), as Akio Kimura
- *Audition* (2000), as Shigehiko Aoyama — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/audition.md)
- *African Nights* (1999), series, Actor

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