Two Lives, Two Yakuza
23/09/1964
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 ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
Movie Information
Koji Tsuruta
as Shinjiro Kusakari
Sumiko Fuji
as Yukiko Matsuhashi
Shigeru Amachi
as Seiji Nawate
Takeshi Katō
as Makoto Misugi
Eijirō Yanagi
as Genichiro Matsuhashi
Sonny Chiba
as Shinichi Matsuhashi
Yoshiko Sakuma
as Kumi Kitajima
Kenji Ushio
as
Fumitake Ōmura
as
Akikane Sawa
as
