Best movies of Bunta Sugawara

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Miyasako,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to destroy the forces of evil.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Actors : Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds himself leading the remnants of the gang he once belonged to in order to secure an area of their own.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

Actors : Kimiko Ikegami, Bunta Sugawara, Kazuo Kitamura, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kazuhiko Hasegawa,

A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshio Kurosawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Mikio Narita, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Acting boss Hirotani of the Ohara gang uses his friendship with corrupt cop Kuno to usurp a staged land deal that rival yakuza gang Kawade had arranged through local politicians. Open warfare erupts between the two gangs.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Isao Natsuyagi, Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza...

Actors : Minoru Ôki, Bunta Sugawara, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Hiroshi Miyauchi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Actors : Karen Kirishima, Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Yamato, Toshiya Fujita,
Directors : Junji Sakamoto,

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer.

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 : Bunta Sugawara, Masumi Harukawa, Hiroko Isayama, 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 : Kunie Tanaka, Mayumi Nagisa, Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he's released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent.

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

One of director Nakajima's best films.

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

One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.

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...