Kōji Tsuruta
From left to right, Mitsuru Ono, Kazuo Taoka, Kōji Tsuruta. 1952.
Kōji Tsuruta (鶴田 浩二 Tsuruta Kōji, December 6, 1924 – June 16, 1987) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 260 feature films.
Career
Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Japan as Eiichi Ono, Tsuruta was studying at Kansai University when he was drafted into the Japanese Imperial Navy.[1] After the war he joined Kōkichi Takada's theater troupe and made his film debut at Shochiku in 1948 with Yūkyō no mure (Crowd of Aso).[1] Later moving to Toho and then to Toei, he played handsome leads or, in a number of films, Toshirō Mifune's rival, as he did in the Samurai Trilogy. In the 1960s, he starred in many of Toei's ninkyo eiga as chivalric but world-weary yakuza. Tsuruta was also a successful singer, scoring hits with such songs as Kizudarake no jinsei.[1]
Filmography
- Eden no umi (1950) - directed by Noboru Nakamura
- Ochazuke no aji (1952) - directed by Yasujiro Ozu
- A Night in Hawaii (Hawai no yoru) (1953)
- Samurai Trilogy (1954–1956) - playing Sasaki Kojirō, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- A Man Among Men (Dansei No. 1) (1955) - directed by Kajiro Yamamoto
- Nemuri Kyôshirô burai hikae (1956) - directed by Shigeaki Hidaka
- Ninjitsu aka Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu bugeicho) - part 1 (1957) - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- (おしどり喧嘩笠 Oshidori kenkagasa) (1957)
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu bugeicho Ninjitsu) - part 2 (1958) - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chūshingura) (1958) - directed by Kunio Watanabe
- Boss of the Underworld (Ankokugai no kaoyaku) (1959) - directed by Kihachi Okamoto
- The Birth of Japan (1959) - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Secret of the Telegian (1960) - directed by Jun Fukuda
- Chushingura (1962) - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Jinsei gekijo: hisha kaku (1963) - directed by Tadashi Sawashima
- Bakuto (1964) - directed by Shigehiro Ozawa
- Meiji kyokyakuden - sandaime shumei (1965) - directed by Tai Kato
- Bakuchi-uchi: socho tobaku (1968) - directed by Kosaku Yamashita
- Sympathy for the Underdog (1971) - directed by Kinji Fukasaku
- Kizudarake no Jinsei (1971) - directed by Shigehiro Ozawa
- Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977) -
- Yakuza senso: Nihon no Don (1977) - directed by Sadao Nakajima
- Saigo no bakuto (1985) - directed by Kosaku Yamashita
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tsuruta Kōji". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
External links
- Kōji Tsuruta at the Internet Movie Database
- Tsuruta Kōji at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
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