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Bunta Sugawara
Japanese actor (1933-2014) · Japan · On the map · Actors · Died at 81
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.
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Wolf ChildrenFilm, Nirasaki (voice)2007
Hagetaka: Road to RebirthSeries, Syouzaburou Ooki2006
Tales from EarthseaFilm, Haitaka (voice)2005
The Great Yokai WarFilm, Shuntarō Ino2002
Toshiie and MatsuSeries, Toshimasa Maeda2000
Dora-heitaFilm, Nadahachi on the Great River1998
Sanada Yukimura: The Man Shogun Ieyasu Feared MostSeries, Gensai
Tokugawa YoshinobuSeries, 1998Saisho Tokugawa
You Don't Know That, Teacher?Series, 19981994
Furuhata NinzaburoSeries1986
Musashibo BenkeiSeries, Tomo1985
The Burmese HarpFilm, Platoon Commander1981
Tuesday Suspense TheaterSeries
Gate of YouthFilm, 1981Shigezo Ibuki1980
The Lion EraSeries1978
Dynamite Don-DonFilm, Ongagawa no Kasuke1976Blue Ribbon Awards for Best ActorAward
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the BossFilm, 1976Shuichi Nozaki1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final EpisodeFilm, Shozo Hirono1973
Battles Without Honor and HumanityFilm, Shozo Hirono1971
Trials of an Okinawa VillageFilm1969
Japan Organized Crime BossFilm, Tsutomu Kazama1968
Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's ObligationFilm, Shiraishi1963
A Legend or Was It?Film, Goichi Takamori1933Born16 August 1933People around Bunta
Kinji Fukasaku Directed Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Noribumi Suzuki Directed Star of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter (1979)
Asao Koike Also in Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha and Conquest
Hideo Murota Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Takuzo Kawatani Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)
Kunie Tanaka Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Kōji Tsuruta Also in The Gate of Youth and Kogane no Inu
Nobuo Kaneko Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)
Hiroki Matsukata Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Shingo Yamashiro Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)- Toshiaki Tsushima Wrote Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Kon Ichikawa Directed I Went To and Crane
Seizō Fukumoto Also in Conquest (1982)
Tomisaburō Wakayama Also in The Gate of Youth (1981)
Reiko Ike Also in Cops vs. Thugs and Kogane no Inu
Sanae Nakahara Also in Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
Tsunehiko Watase Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Tatsuo Umemiya Also in Conquest and Bloodstained Clan of Honor
Akira Kobayashi Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Noboru Ando Also in Chōeki Tarō: Mamushi no Kyōdai (1971)
Nenji Kobayashi Also in The Gate of Youth (1981)
Mikio Narita Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Ryūji Katagiri Also in Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Mayumi Nagisa Also in Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)
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Spirited Away 2001
Wolf Children 2012
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima 1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode 1974
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
232 credits on file
Television 10
Awards
About this person
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).
