Bunta Sugawara
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)
Born: August 16, 1933
Place of Birth: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Known For
The Truck Rascals Go to The North
Eighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Postwar Secrets
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Furuhata Ninzaburo
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of Columbo. The series is a police detective drama starring actor Masakazu Tamura as Furuhata Ninzaburo and Masahiko Nishimura as his stereotypically bumbling sidekick, Shintaro Imaizumi. The program aired weekly and featured a guest villain each time, usually a famous talent in Japan. Pop-stars like SMAP, television hosts like Sanma Akashiya and even sports figures like Ichiro Suzuki have been featured on this program. It was one of the most popular television dramas in the history of Japanese television, having spawned several seasons and TV specials.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanese financier Masahiko Washizu to do the job with only one instruction: buy them cheap and sell them high.
Spirited Away
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Wolf Children
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
Filmography
as Nirasaki (voice)
as Yozo Ioka
as Syouzaburou Ooki
as Haitaka (voice)
as Shuntarō Ino
as Tokugawa Leyasu
as Tokugawa Leyasu
as Ryoukan
as Godai Kenzo
as Toshimasa Maeda
as Kamaji (voice)
as Nadahachi on the Great River
as Saisho Tokugawa
as Rio Yuki
as Seiji Nakamoto
as Yuzo Yamanaka
as Kumajiro inokuma
as Rich man
as Kumazou
as Shinza
as Shoji Katsuaki
as Kenji Mizoguchi
as Tomo
as Platoon Commander
as Koji Kawakami
as Senkichi
as Shigezo Ibuki
as Shozo Hirono
as Momojirô Hoshi(運転手)
as Inspector Yamashita
as Lorry driver
as Hachiyo Shunji
as Ongagawa no Kasuke
as Akira Kawanishi
as Shinsuke Tembo
as Hayato
as Tetsuji Gondo
as Eizo Iwami
as Shuichi Nozaki
as Momojirô Hoshi - Ichibanboshi
as Shuji Kuroda
as Kenzo Otaki
as Momojirô Hoshi - Ichibanboshi
as Detective Kuno
as Kunizo Kuniiwa
as Miyoshi Makio
as Shozo Hirono
as Ginji Yozokura
as Tatsu
as Shozo Hirono
as Shozo Hirono
as Hachiro Daicho
as Lee Chung Shun
as Shozo Hirono
as Masa
as Monjirô Kogarashi
as Ishido Tsuneo
as Monjiro
as Isamu Okita
as Yuijiro
as Masaru Kokubun
as Hanjiro Murase
as Masataro (Goro Masa)
as Ryutatsu
as Masaru Kokubun
as Blind Priest Ryotatsu
as Lieutenant Satake
as Izumi Tatsuya
as Yukichi
as Shin'ichi Yamada
as Masaru Kokubun
as Aoyama Tsunejiro
as Masaru Kokubun
as Gunji
as Masaru Kokubun
as Heigo Asahi
as Shuichi Kitahashi
as Kazama
as Tatsuo Yaguchi
as Tamotsu Asai
as Ryutatsu
as Shiraishi
as Ichiro Yamakawa
as Ryotatsu
as Shibayama Ukon
as School principal
as Sakaki
as Ôtsu
as Minoru Akihara
as Yoshioka Shinnosuke
as Tamura
as Sugiura
as Goichi Takamori
as Ishikawa
as Kenji
as Kazuhiko Nanjô
as Toshio Sugawara
as Hiroshi Taniguchi
as Lieutenant Matsumoto
as Nobuo Asakura
as Sugawa
as Masayuki Abe
as Detective Nonomiya
as Nakagawa, a student