Kōji Tsuruta
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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.
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[edit] Career
Born in Shizuoka Prefecture 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]
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Tsuruta Kōji". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. http://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%B6%B4%E7%94%B0%E6%B5%A9%E4%BA%8C. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
[edit] External links
- Kōji Tsuruta at the Internet Movie Database
- Tsuruta Kōji at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
