Best movies of Kôji Tsuruta

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Actors : Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kôji Tsuruta, Yumi Shirakawa, Seizaburô Kawazu,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza...

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Yoshiko Mita,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Very moving, despite its slow start.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Romantic ninkyô yakuza film.

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Kôji Tsuruta, Shin Saburi, Kô Nishimura,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

A supposedly true-to-life story of one of the biggest rightists - yakuza bosses in 1950s - '60s Japan.

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kôji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Serving his prison time after the events of the first movie, Hishakaku discovers that Otoyo is working as a prostitute in Manchuria. He travels to China to save the woman he still loves, only to get involved in a battle he can never win.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Hiroki Matsukata, Kôji Tsuruta, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

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. One of the...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

One of director Nakajima's best films.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Makoto Satô, Akiko Kudô, Kyôsuke Machida,
Directors : Yasuo Furuhata,

Yet another ninkyô - jitsuroku hybrid.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tatsuo Endô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

A well-written saga of two gang bosses.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned ...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Keijiro Morokado, Kyôsuke Machida,
Directors : Shinji Murayama,

One of the more soulful and sentimental of the early 1970s modern day yakuza films from Toei.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his ...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending.

Actors : Katsutoshi Akiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi, Junko Fuji, Kôji Tsuruta,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Oryu meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being damaged by air pollution from a local factory.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuo Umemiya, Jun Tatara,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

A gritty, nourish gangster saga - especially for 1963 - more in the jitsuroku (true account) vain before there were many yakuza films.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Hideo Kô, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Mizuhara did his time in jail for Boss Komori. Now that he is out, the old gang wants to say welcome back with a bullet.

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Kôji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô, Tatsuo Endô,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

The historical drama follows the wartime experiences of the respected admiral who attempted to force America into considering a negotiated peace during World War Two.

Actors : Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Michitarô Mizushima,
Directors : Yasuo Furuhata,

Action film about modern gangsters.