Best movies of Bunta Sugawara

Actors : Takeo Chii, Takashi Ebata, Bunta Sugawara, Isao Bitô,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss, only to find himself elected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alliance that...

Actors : Gorô Ibuki, Bunta Sugawara, Masaharu Arikawa, Takayuki Akutagawa,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend ...

Actors : Nana Kinomi, Eiji Gô, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri Prison.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

One of director Nakajima's best films.

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Hiroko Isayama, Masumi Harukawa, Kentarô Shimizu,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A young boxer accidentally kills an ex-boxing champion's brother. He then approaches the ex-champ to train him to become the next champion.

Actors : Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara, Utako Mitsuya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshiki Onoda,

Towards the end of World War Two Lt. Sugawa is flying to Tokyo with top secret blueprints when his plane is shot out of the sky over the Pacific Seas. He is plucked from the ocean onto a ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Yuriko Hishimi, Bunta Sugawara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to ...

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Keijiro Morokado, Kyôsuke Machida,
Directors : Shinji Murayama,

One of the more soulful and sentimental of the early 1970s modern day yakuza films from Toei.

Actors : Nana Kinomi, Eiji Gô, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

One of maverick director Ishii's best pictures.

Actors : Masayuki Yuhara, Bunta Sugawara, Yutaka Nakajima, Junko Natsu,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

A pair of truckers show off their driving skills to each other while evading pursuing law enforcement.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

One of the only pre-1980s yakuza films to be dubbed-into-English.

Actors : Shizue Abe, Kin'ya Aikawa, Bunta Sugawara, Masumi Harukawa,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventure of two truck drivers. Tojiro and his best friend Kinjo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their ...

Actors : Junko Fuji, Bunta Sugawara, Keiko Yumi, Junzaburô Ban,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Koshizu (Fuji), a young geisha, tries to kill herself but is saved by cook Yukichi (Sugahara). Rival geisha Adakichi (Yumi), greedy trader Yasukawa (Abe) and wealthy businessman Asai (Soganoya) add up to dramatic turns.