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Bunta Sugawara

Acting Born Aug 16, 1933 Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 24 credits

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)

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Full filmography

  • Spirited Away (2001) as Kamaji (voice)
  • Furuhata Ninzaburo (1994)
  • Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979) as Momojirô Hoshi
  • Toshiie and Matsu (2002) as Toshimasa Maeda
  • Wolf Children (2012) as Nirasaki (voice)
  • Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1998) as Saisho Tokugawa
  • Tales from Earthsea (2006) as Haitaka (voice)
  • Tuesday Suspense Theater (1981)
  • Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth (2007) as Syouzaburou Ooki
  • Gate of Youth (1981) as Shigezo Ibuki
  • Sanada Yukimura: The Man Shogun Ieyasu Feared Most (1998) as Gensai
  • The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) as Inspector Yamashita
  • The Lion Era (1980)
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973) as Shozo Hirono
  • To Trap a Kidnapper (1982)
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) as Shozo Hirono
  • The Great Yokai War (2005) as Shuntarō Ino
  • Musashibo Benkei (1986) as Tomo
  • You Don't Know That, Teacher? (1998)
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) as Shozo Hirono
  • Japan's Don (1977) as Eizo Iwami
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) as Shozo Hirono
  • Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation (1968) as Shiraishi
  • Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro (1972) as Monjiro