
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 Billed Cast

Koji Tsuruta
Shinjiro Kusakari

Sumiko Fuji
Yukiko Matsuhashi

Shigeru Amachi
Seiji Nawate

Takeshi Katō
Makoto Misugi

Eijirō Yanagi
Genichiro Matsuhashi
Featured Crew
Akira Murao
Screenplay
Shunsaku Iwashita
Original Story

Chūji Kinoshita
Music
Shichirō Hayashi
Cinematography
Suguru Tanabe
Production Design
Tsuneo Kobayashi
Director