Koji Tsuruta Movies

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

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

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

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

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

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

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

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

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which...

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business...

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the...

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun...