Koji Tsuruta

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

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 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 ...

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

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series ...

A crime film released in 1965

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son ...

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

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

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had ...

The second part of the Gamblers series.

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA “Dynamite Tsune” is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss’s money in a dice game ...

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or ...

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. ...

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight ...

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous ...

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, ...

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan’s defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a ...

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

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In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between ...

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a ...

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza ...

1962 Japanese movie. Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate’s ...