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Bunta Sugawara (Japanese: 菅原 文太, Hepburn: Sugawara Bunta, August 16, 1933 – November 28, 2014) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 feature films. Dropping out of Waseda University, he worked as a model before entering the film industry in 1956.
Bunta Sugawara was born on 16 August 1933 in Sendai, Japan. He was an actor, known for Spirited Away (2001), Tales from Earthsea (2006) and The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979). He was married to Fumiko. He died on 28 November 2014 in Tokyo, Japan.
菅原 文太（すがわら ぶんた、英︰Bunta Sugawara、1933年〈昭和8年〉8月16日 - 2014年〈平成26年〉11月28日 ）は、日本の俳優・声優・ラジオパーソナリティ・農業従事者である。 キャリアを始めた時は、その身長（178cm）を活かしファッションモデルとして活躍 。
Bunta Sugawara was born on August 16, 1933 in Sendai, Japan. He was an actor, known for Spirited Away (2001), Tales from Earthsea (2006) and The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979). He was married to Fumiko. He died on November 28, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan.
Five films directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara as Shozo Hirono (a character based on Minō) were produced between 1973 and 1974. They were critically and commercially successful and popularized the subgenre of yakuza film called Jitsuroku eiga, which are often based on true stories.
Bunta Sugawara is as close as the Japanese film industry has ever come to Clint Eastwood. As did Eastwood with Dirty Harry, Sugawara embodied a new antihero for the 1970s and redefined cool. Sugawara's anti-heroes were not hard-nosed cops, but gangsters whose only code was survival.
Dec 2, 2014 · Mere weeks after the death of fellow onscreen tough guy Ken Takakura, Japanese cinema has suffered another blow with the death of Bunta Sugawara. Sugawara reportedly died Friday of liver cancer...
