Koji Tsuruta Movies

1962 Japanese movie

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

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

The second part of the Gamblers series.

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

The story takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in 1965. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business...

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

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group,...

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...