Movies: Koji Tsuruta

  • 1952
    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)

    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

    7.51952HD

    The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis....

    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
  • 1956
    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

    7.21956HD

    A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to f...

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
  • 1955
    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    7.21955HD

    After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skil...

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
  • 1969
    Japan Organized Crime Boss

    Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)

    Japan Organized Crime Boss

    7.91969HD

    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 group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the cont...

    Japan Organized Crime Boss
  • 1971
    Sympathy for the Underdog

    Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)

    Sympathy for the Underdog

    7.21971HD

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

    Sympathy for the Underdog
  • 1968
    Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

    Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation (1968)

    Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

    6.81968HD

    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 gang, who wants to take over the town's businesses, murders him, Oryu is obliged to protect his children...

    Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
  • 1971
    Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

    Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You (1971)

    Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

    7.31971HD

    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 father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroy...

    Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
  • 1969
    Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

    Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room (1969)

    Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

    5.91969HD

    Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, ...

    Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
  • 1977
    Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon

    Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977)

    Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon

    5.41977HD

    Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective 'Smitty' Smith, determ...

    Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon
  • 1981
    The Imperial Navy

    The Imperial Navy (1981)

    The Imperial Navy

    6.61981HD

    A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....

    The Imperial Navy
  • 1950
    Kagebōshi

    Kagebōshi (1950)

    Kagebōshi

    01950HD

    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 hi...

    Kagebōshi
  • 1959
    Desperado Outpost

    Desperado Outpost (1959)

    Desperado Outpost

    6.11959HD

    When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer....

    Desperado Outpost
  • 1977
    Proof of the Man

    Proof of the Man (1977)

    Proof of the Man

    7.41977HD

    When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime....

    Proof of the Man
  • 1969
    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (1969)

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

    71969HD

    This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history....

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
  • 1972
    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die (1972)

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

    01972HD

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

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
  • 1960
    The Secret of the Telegian

    The Secret of the Telegian (1960)

    The Secret of the Telegian

    5.81960HD

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

    The Secret of the Telegian
  • 1966
    Code Between Brothers

    Code Between Brothers (1966)

    Code Between Brothers

    71966HD

    Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road....

    Code Between Brothers
  • 1981
    Gate of Youth

    Gate of Youth (1981)

    Gate of Youth

    61981HD

    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. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group l...

    Gate of Youth
  • 1960
    The Storm of the Pacific

    The Storm of the Pacific (1960)

    The Storm of the Pacific

    5.41960HD

    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 hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victor...

    The Storm of the Pacific
  • 1967
    Classmates

    Classmates (1967)

    Classmates

    6.51967HD

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

    Classmates