Movie: Two Lives, Two Yakuza

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Koji Tsuruta
鶴田浩二

Shinjiro Kusakari

Sumiko Fuji
富司純子

Yukiko Matsuhashi

Shigeru Amachi
天知茂

Seiji Nawate

Takeshi Katō
加藤武

Makoto Misugi

Eijirō Yanagi
柳永二郎

Genichiro Matsuhashi

Sonny Chiba
千葉真一

Shinichi Matsuhashi

Yoshiko Sakuma
佐久間良子

Kumi Kitajima

Kenji Ushio
潮健児

Fumitake Ōmura
大村文武

Akikane Sawa
沢彰謙

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    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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    1964-09-23

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