Koji Tsuruta Movies

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.

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...

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.

1961 gangster film.

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

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

1948 Japanese movie

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

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

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.