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Bunta Sugawara

Actor

Bunta Sugawara

Acting
1963 — 2006 · 18 films
Lived
16 August 1933 — d. 2014
From
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 from liver cancer in a Tokyo hospital on November 28, 2014 at the age of 81. (Wikipedia)

Career Signature

How Bunta Sugawara’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.

grainy 70s grit
nightlife underworld
rise-and-fall tragedy
kinetic urgency
emotionally restrained

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every acted-in film.

Tonal kin

Noboru AndōNoboru Andō6 filmsAkira KobayashiAkira Kobayashi6 filmsHiroki MatsukataHiroki Matsukata9 filmsMikio NaritaMikio Narita8 filmsRaymond PellegrinRaymond Pellegrin6 filmsSanae NakaharaSanae Nakahara6 filmsTakeshi KatōTakeshi Katō7 filmsJoe ShishidoJoe Shishido15 films

Filmography

Tales from Earthsea

2006

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

Boxer

1977

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

1976

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

1975

Cops vs. Thugs

1975

Violent Streets

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

1974

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973

Street Mobster

1972

Yakuza Law

1969

Japan Organized Crime Boss

1969

The Shape of Night

1964

A Legend or Was It?

1963