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).
Koji Tsuruta
Shinjiro Kusakari
Sumiko Fuji
Yukiko Matsuhashi
Shigeru Amachi
Seiji Nawate
Takeshi Katō
Makoto Misugi
Eijirō Yanagi
Genichiro Matsuhashi
Sonny Chiba
Shinichi Matsuhashi
Yoshiko Sakuma
Kumi Kitajima
Kenji Ushio
Fumitake Ōmura
Akikane Sawa
Two Lives, Two Yakuza is a crime, drama film released in 1964 exploring themes of yakuza. Directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi, it stars Koji Tsuruta, Sumiko Fuji, Shigeru Amachi. 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).
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