Bunta Sugawara Movies

When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.

After a bloody battle, Sarutobi Sasuke, his lord, and his students, retreat to a hideout in the middle of a forest awaiting for new orders. At the...

A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaka.

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty...

After destroying the Nio-kai, Ryuji and the Tenryu-kai begin expanding in Kyobashi, taking over former territories. Seeing them as a threat, Kurosaki...

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Based on the comic by Ayumi Tachihara

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into...

Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their respective parents. Fearing separation from each...

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

Torajiro, a truck driver, worries and agonizes over the thought that Minami, his lover and a popular rock singer is an existence far beyond his reach...

Remake of the 1961 Japanese war-comedy film Snow in the South Seas (Minami no Shima ni Yuki ga Furu).

When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.

1962 Japanese movie

Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the emblem of the Inahara-kai. Then, in 1961,...

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of...

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...