Movies: Koji Tsuruta

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita...

Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can t...

Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan....

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The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....

Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road....

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant....

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally beco...

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War....

A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after an assassination their henchmen will struggle to avenge the death of their master....

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō....

1948 Japanese movie...

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed...

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. Th...

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans....

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto....

A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko....

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters disco...

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