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Two Lives, Two Yakuza

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).

Top Cast

  • Koji Tsuruta

    Koji Tsuruta

    Shinjiro Kusakari

  • Sumiko Fuji

    Sumiko Fuji

    Yukiko Matsuhashi

  • Shigeru Amachi

    Shigeru Amachi

    Seiji Nawate

  • Takeshi Katō

    Takeshi Katō

    Makoto Misugi

  • Eijirō Yanagi

    Eijirō Yanagi

    Genichiro Matsuhashi

  • Sonny Chiba

    Sonny Chiba

    Shinichi Matsuhashi

  • Yoshiko Sakuma

    Yoshiko Sakuma

    Kumi Kitajima

  • Kenji Ushio

    Kenji Ushio

  • Fumitake Ōmura

    Fumitake Ōmura

Overview

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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