Most Popular Koji Tsuruta Trailers
Total trailers found: 205
30 June 1954
Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
20 June 1970
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
12 August 1967
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series.
08 July 1967
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu.
19 April 1969
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 puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.
04 August 1962
A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.
25 June 1957
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
22 November 1961
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a sudden halt, Minako finds herself in search of new love which in turn leads her into a complicated love triangle.
12 August 1965
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.
14 July 1953
In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens Yukiko's warmth but also sparks intense jealousy when Nemoto shows Keiko kindness.
15 June 1954
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 to his own desires.
21 October 1964
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates.
17 June 1967
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
04 December 1965
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
19 April 1968
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period.
09 September 1962
A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko.
01 March 1964
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
23 April 1966
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
30 January 1965
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own, none are connected other than starring the famous Ken Takakura as the main Character.
13 September 1960
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
07 August 1963
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.
24 August 1960
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
26 December 1956
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
06 September 1969
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato).
19 October 1963
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 the path to fame and fortune.
30 May 1966
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
13 August 1966
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
03 January 1950
On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and decided to catch the culprit, not only for the sake of the beautiful wife of Utsugi, Chika, but also for his own honor.
05 October 1963
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
20 October 1963
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
03 February 1966
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
27 October 1971
The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
01 April 1967
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 Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time.
11 December 1960
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 must find the culprit and exact revenge.
22 January 1972
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri.
19 June 1966
Japanese crime film.
22 November 1972
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
09 July 1966
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
03 January 1958
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan.
20 May 1967
The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five players following the harsh path of a knight defeat a despicable Yakuza gang.
17 July 1971
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 (big boss).
10 April 1960
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
28 September 1955
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war.
03 January 1968
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
05 March 1968
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry.
01 April 1958
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
13 July 1962
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime.
01 September 1954
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government.
15 January 1981
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 mid-teens.
13 February 1971
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 later.
26 February 1956
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue.
28 December 1968
Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.