Bunta Sugawara

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Bunta Sugawara

Acting August 16, 1933

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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…

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Spirited Away

Spirited Away

8.5 2001 Movie
Wolf Children

Wolf Children

8.2 2012 Movie
Tales from Earthsea

Tales from Earthsea

6.5 2006 Movie
Furuhata Ninzaburo

Furuhata Ninzaburo

8.8 1994 TV Show
Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

7.3 1973 Movie
The Great Yokai War

The Great Yokai War

6.3 2005 Movie
Star of David: Beauty Hunting

Star of David: Beauty Hunting

6.2 1979 Movie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

7.3 1973 Movie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

7.0 1973 Movie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

7.0 1974 Movie
Street Mobster

Street Mobster

6.8 1972 Movie
The Man Who Stole the Sun

The Man Who Stole the Sun

7.4 1979 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2013
    The Town of Iidate: Radiation and the Return Home

    Movie Other

  2. 2012
    Wolf Children

    Movie Nirasaki (voice)

  3. 2008
    Sisterhood

    Movie

  4. 2007
    The Battery

    Movie Yozo Ioka

  5. 2007
    Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

    TV show Syouzaburou Ooki

  6. 2006
    Tales from Earthsea

    Movie Haitaka (voice)

  7. 2005
    The Great Yokai War

    Movie Shuntarō Ino

  8. 2005
    New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter

    Movie Tokugawa Leyasu

  9. 2005
    New Shadow Warriors V: Hattori Hanzo vs Onmyoji

    Movie Tokugawa Leyasu

  10. 2004
    Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 2 - The Earth Chapter

    Movie

  11. 2004
    Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 1 - The Heaven Chapter

    Movie

  12. 2003
    4Teen

    Movie

  13. 2003
    Ryoukan-san

    Movie Ryoukan

  14. 2003
    My Grandpa

    Movie Godai Kenzo

  15. 2002
    Shura Group

    Movie

  16. 2002
    Toshiie and Matsu

    TV show Toshimasa Maeda

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  1. 2002
    Shura Group Part 3

    Movie

  2. 2001
    Spirited Away

    Movie Kamaji (voice)

  3. 2001
    The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away

    Movie

  4. 2001
    Dekotora Gaiden: A Man’s Life, a Road of Dreams

    Movie Executive Producer

  5. 2000
    The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War: Final Chapter

    Movie

  6. 2000
    The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War

    Movie

  7. 2000
    Dora-heita

    Movie Nadahachi on the Great River

  8. 1999
    History of Japan’s Yakuza — Ambition Corps 3

    Movie

  9. 1998
    You Don't Know That, Teacher?

    TV show

  10. 1998
    Tokugawa Yoshinobu

    TV show Saisho Tokugawa

  11. 1998
    Sanada Yukimura: The Man Shogun Ieyasu Feared Most

    TV show Gensai

  12. 1997
    An Angel with Many Scars

    Movie

  13. 1995
    Snow falls on a southern island

    Movie

  14. 1995
    Shura ga Yuku

    Movie

  15. 1995
    Kirikomi

    Movie

  16. 1994
    The Man Who Shot the Don

    Movie

  17. 1994
    Furuhata Ninzaburo

    TV show

  18. 1993
    Emperor of Upheaval

    Movie

  19. 1992
    Distant Justice

    Movie Rio Yuki

  20. 1992
    Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

    Movie

  21. 1992
    Big Boss

    Movie

  22. 1991
    Jingi

    Movie

  23. 1991
    Let's Shoot Ridiculously

    Movie

  24. 1990
    Tekken

    Movie Seiji Nakamoto