Two Lives, Two Yakuza

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).

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Top Cast

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