Koji Tsuruta Movies

1948 Japanese movie

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...

1958 Japanese movie

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

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...

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he...

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However,...

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Part two.

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

1955 Japanese movie

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