Throughout his career, Sugawara appeared in almost 200 feature films, the most famous being Kinji Fukasaku's five-part yakuza epic "Battles Without Honor and Humanity".
Throughout his career, he appeared in almost 200 feature films. He didn't achieve major success until 1973 at the age of 40, when he starred in Kinji Fukasaku's five-part yakuza epic "Battles Without Honor and Humanity".