Koji Tsuruta Movies

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is...

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

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...

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an...

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

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

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

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

Japanese crime film.

The second part of the Gamblers series.

1958 Japanese movie

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

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

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...