Koji Tsuruta Movies

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

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

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and...

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Japanese crime film.

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

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

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...

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii