CATDOLL: The prototype actor of Akainu in the popular anime "One Piece", Bunta Sugawara, passed away due to illness

The famous Japanese actor and the prototype of Admiral Akainu in One Piece, Bunta Sugawara, died of liver cancer on November 28 at the age of 81. So far, of the four prototypes of the admirals who appeared in One Piece, only Tanaka Kunie, the prototype of Kizaru, is still alive. Readers who like One Piece may know that Akainu, one of the three admirals of the original navy in the comics and later became the admiral of the navy, is based on the famous Japanese actor Bunta Sugawara. In addition, Bunta Sugawara also voiced the boiler grandfather in the animated film Spirited Away and Nirasaki in Wolf Children.

Sugawara Bunta was born on August 16, 1933 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He is one of the representative figures of the Japanese film industry in the 1960s and 1970s. He was famous for his handsomeness in his early years, and later became famous for the villains in chivalrous films. He is listed as the pillar of Toei Company along with Koji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, and Junko Fuji. He has worked as a model and an actor in the "Theater Four Seasons" troupe. In 1958, he made his official film debut with the movie "The Secret Zone of the White Line". Since 1973, he has established his unshakable popularity and status with the "War Without Kindness" series. Sugawara is an important figure in Japanese film history. He represents the style of Japanese post-war films. Most of his works are police and gangster films. Sugawara has created a series of hard-core iron-blooded manly images and has a large number of fans.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Sugawara Bunta retired from the entertainment industry and founded the national movement group "Life Party". Recently, he has criticized and warned Shinzo Abe about his attempt to militarize the Self-Defense Forces by revising the constitutional interpretation of collective self-defense rights.

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