A tough-guy actor who was the stale of gangster movies such as "Jingi naki Tatakai" ("Battles Without Honor and Humanity" - several other English titles in different territories) series, Bunta Sugawara has been hospitalized, Sponichi reports on Feb. 7. No details have been announced regarding his illness. He has felt sick since January, and his scheduled stage act in March is already cancelled. Sugawara's latest movie was Takashi Miike's "The Great Yokai War", released in summer of 2005.
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