# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bunta-sugawara
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:21.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bunta-sugawara"
name: "Bunta Sugawara"
slug: "bunta-sugawara"
description: "Bunta Sugawara  was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 feature films. Dropping out of Waseda University, he worked as a model before entering the film industry in 1956. After years of work, Sugawara finally established himself as a famous actor at the age of 39, with the lead role of Shozo Hirono in the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976) of yakuza films. He quickly found additional success starring as the truck driver Momojiro Hoshi in the comedic Torakku Yarō series (1975–1979). In 1980, Sugawara won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a detective in the satirical Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979)."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1933–2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Bunta_Sugawara.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-08-16"
deathDate: "2014-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.68379066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837420/"
    handle:    "nm0837420"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بونتا سوجاوارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بونتا سوگاوارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunta_Sugawara"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunta_Sugawara"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "بونتا سوگاوارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunta_Sugawara"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunta_Sugawara"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%85%E5%8E%9F%E6%96%87%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "菅原文太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%EA%B0%80%EC%99%80%EB%9D%BC_%EB%B6%84%ED%83%80"
    title: "스가와라 분타"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugawara_Bunta"
    title: "Sugawara Bunta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Сугавара, Бунта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunta_Sugawara"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunta_Sugawara"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1139492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119243"
    title: "Bunta Sugawara"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump