Bunta Sugawara
Born: 1933-08-16 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Died: 2014-11-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
Bunta Sugawara was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 Japanese feature films, most prevalently in Yakuza films. On December 1, 2014, it was announced that Sugawara had died from liver cancer in a Tokyo hospital on November 28, 2014 at the age of 81. (Wikipedia)
Filmography
2013
2012
- Wolf Children as Nirasaki (voice)
2008
2007
- Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth as Syouzaburou Ooki
- The Battery as Yozo Ioka
2006
- Tales from Earthsea as Haitaka (voice)
2005
- The Great Yokai War as Shuntarō Ino
- New Shadow Warriors V: Hattori Hanzo vs Onmyoji as Tokugawa Leyasu
- New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter as Tokugawa Leyasu
2004
2003
- My Grandpa as Godai Kenzo
- 4Teen
- Ryoukan-san as Ryoukan
2002
- Toshiie and Matsu as Toshimasa Maeda
- Shura Group
- Shura Group Part 3
2001
- Spirited Away as Kamaji (voice)
- The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away
- Dekotora Gaiden: A Man’s Life, a Road of Dreams ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- Dora-heita as Nadahachi on the Great River
- The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War: Final Chapter
- The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War
1998
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu as Saisho Tokugawa
- Sanada Yukimura: The Man Shogun Ieyasu Feared Most as Gensai
- You Don't Know That, Teacher?
1995
1993
1992
1990
- Yellow Fangs
- Tekken as Seiji Nakamoto
- Signal Fool as Yuzo Yamanaka
1989
- Yawara! as Kumajiro inokuma
1988
- Crane as Rich man
1987
- The Lady in a Black Dress as Shoji Katsuaki
- Actress as Kenji Mizoguchi
- The Forced Marriage with Children as Kumazou
- The Eccentric Shinza as Shinza
1986
1985
- The Burmese Harp as Platoon Commander
1982
- To Trap a Kidnapper
- Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute
- Domineering as Koji Kawakami
1981
- Tuesday Suspense Theater
- Gate of Youth as Shigezo Ibuki
- Flames of Blood as Senkichi
1980
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Shozo Hirono
- The Lion Era
1979
- Star of David: Beauty Hunting as Momojirô Hoshi
- The Man Who Stole the Sun as Inspector Yamashita
- Run Truck Rascal, Run!
- Dog of Fortune as Lorry driver
- Down with The Big Boss as Hachiyo Shunji
- A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun
1978
- Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
- The Truck Rascals Go to The North
- Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Akira Kawanishi
- Shag
- Dynamite Don-Don as Ongagawa no Kasuke
1977
- Japan's Don as Eizo Iwami
- Japanese Godfather: Ambition as Shinsuke Tembo
- I Am A Man of Honor
- Japanese Humanity and Justice
- Boxer as Hayato
- Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu as Tetsuji Gondo
- Truckster of Guts
1976
1975
- Cops vs. Thugs as Detective Kuno
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Shuji Kuroda
- The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- Great Jailbreak as Kunizo Kuniiwa
- The Wild Trucker as Momojirô Hoshi - Ichibanboshi
- Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me as Momojirô Hoshi - Ichibanboshi
- The International Gang of Kobe as Kenzo Otaki
1974
- The Tattooed Hitman as Ginji Yozokura
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Shozo Hirono
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Shozo Hirono
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Miyoshi Makio
- Code of Wolves
- Violent Streets as Tatsu
- Father of the Kamikaze
- The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
- Miracle on Lubang Island: Army Nakano School
- The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
- Violent Fraternity
- Student Yakuza
1973
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Shozo Hirono
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Shozo Hirono
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Shozo Hirono
- Dangerous Trade in Kobe as Lee Chung Shun
- The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers as Masa
- The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
- Japan's Top Gangster as Hachiro Daicho
- Yokosuka Navy Prison
1972
- Street Mobster as Isamu Okita
- The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang as Yuijiro
- The Red Silk Gambler as Masa
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers as Gondo
- Turtle Geisha
- Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro as Monjiro
- Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
- The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
- Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth as Monjirô Kogarashi
- The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- A Yakuza Has His Way as Ishido Tsuneo
- Delinquent Street
- The Pledge
- Yakuza Skirmishes
1971
- The Viper Brothers as Masataro (Goro Masa)
- A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
- Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival as Masaru Kokubun
- Trials of an Okinawa Village
- Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
- The Viper Brothers Rage Again
- The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
- Kigeki Toruko-buro Osho-sen
- A Modern Yakuza: Broken Code
- Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor as Masaru Kokubun
- Evil Boss vs. Henchmen as Hanjiro Murase
- Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments as Ryutatsu
- Wolves on Motorcycles
- The Sucker's Blunt Dagger
1970
- Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return as Aoyama Tsunejiro
- Bloodstained Clan of Honor as Gunji
- Thugs of Shinjuku
- Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel as Masaru Kokubun
- Kanto Street Peddlers: Clan Violent Loyalty as Masaru Kokubun
- A Lively Geisha as Yukichi
- The Japan Derby Race
- Fugitive Scoundrel as Izumi Tatsuya
- The Last Kamikaze as Lieutenant Satake
- Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
- Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder as Blind Priest Ryotatsu
- Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering
- Wolves of the City: Checkmate
- Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back as Ryutatsu
- Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
- Code Between Brothers: All New
- Postwar Secrets as Shin'ichi Yamada
- Hooligans on Buggies
- The Swindlers
- Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô
1969
- Memoir of Japanese Assassinations as Heigo Asahi
- Kanto Street Peddlers as Masaru Kokubun
- Japan Organized Crime Boss as Tsutomu Kazama
- Brothers Serving Time as Tatsuo Yaguchi
- A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless
- Yakuza on Foot as Tamotsu Asai
- Yakuza Law
- The Private Police
- Team of Ruffians
- Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
- Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
- A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
- Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight as Shuichi Kitahashi
- Wolf Escort
- The Bad Boss 3
1968
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation as Shiraishi
- Wicked Priest as Ryotatsu
- Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit as Shibayama Ukon
- Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder as Ryutatsu
- The Marked Man
- Scoundrel
- Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
- Rogue as Ichiro Yamakawa
- Enlisted Yakuza
1967
1966
- By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
- Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage as Minoru Akihara
- The Kii River as School principal
- Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
- Face of the Dice
- Secret Agent 101
- A Sky Full of Tears as Sakaki
- Flame and the Code as Ôtsu
1965
1964
- The Shape of Night as Tamura
- Samurai from Somewhere as Yoshioka Shinnosuke
- The Scent of Incense as Sugiura
- Destroyer Yukikaze
- Melody of Crime
1963
- A Legend or Was It? as Goichi Takamori
- For Love and Money
- 見上げてごらん夜の星を
1962
1961
1960
- Five Violent Girls as Kazuhiko Nanjô
- Female Thief and the Bomb as Nobuo Asakura
- Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu as Lieutenant Matsumoto
- Female Detective as Sugiyama
- This Is a Man's World as Toshio Sugawara
- Female Slave Ship as Sugawa
- Kôshitsu to sensô to waga minzoku as Captain Uehara
- Brutal Woman as Hiroshi Taniguchi
1959
- Haunted Cave as Detective Nonomiya
- Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
- The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin as Masayuki Abe
- Crazy Desire
1956
- Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu as Nakagawa, a student