Koji Tsuruta
Born: 1924-12-06 in Hamamatsu, Japan
Died: 1987-06-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Eiichi Ono (小野 榮一, Ono Eiichi, December 6, 1924 – June 16, 1987), better known by his stage name Kōji Tsuruta (鶴田 浩二, Tsuruta Kōji), was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing.
Filmography
1985
- The Last True Yakuza as Takao Sugata
1982
- Domineering as Otomo
1981
- The Imperial Navy
- Gate of Youth as Yabetora
- Love You Till I Die
- Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer as Hagio
1979
- Dog of Fortune as Noriyuki Yasutaka
- Down with The Big Boss as Eikichi Arita
1978
- Ōgon no Hibi as Sen no Rikyū
- Onna Bengoshi Asabuki Riyako
- Monument to Holy Service
1977
- Proof of the Man
- Japan's Don as Shuhei Tatsumi
- Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon as Senzo Shigemune
- Japanese Humanity and Justice
1976
- The Roads Men Travel as Shintaro Yoshioka
1974
- Father of the Kamikaze as Admiral Takijiro Onishi
1972
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog as Masuo Gunji
- The Gambler's Counterattack as Aiba Yusaku
- Fate Deals the Card of Death
- Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You as Kikutaro Yuki
- The Man
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love as Sanshu
- The Path of the King as Minokichi Kawai
- A Scarred Life
- The Armed Organization
- Okoma, the Orphan Gambler as Joji Tsukuba
1970
- The Last Kamikaze as Captain Munakata
- Bloodstained Clan of Honor as Kuroki
- Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
- The Drifting Gambler as Eijiro Funaki
- House of Gamblers
- A Wad of Notes as Ryuji Kashigawa
- Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
- Rise and Fall of Chivalry
1969
- Memoir of Japanese Assassinations as Asaichi Isobe
- Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
- Japan Organized Crime Boss as Tetsuo Tsukamoto
- Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
- Killer's Mission as Shogun Ieshige
- A Gambler's Certain Death
- Gambler's Legacy as Inagaki Chokichi
- The Biggest Gamble as Itsuki Masaji
1968
- The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
- Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation as Shûtaro Kazama
- Human Torpedoes
- Scoundrel
- Big Time Gambling Boss as Shinjirô Nakai
- The Bandits as Yônosuke Minami
- Histories of the Chivalrous
- Gambler Biography as Yûjirô Wakamatsu
- Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
- The Cheating Underworld as Gorô Yajima
- Gambler's Farewell as Toru Kuroki
- Henchmen as Ryuzô Okamoto
- Gamblers: The Raid as Kōjirō Kogarashi
- Gambling Den's Master Clan
1967
- Classmates as First Lieutenant Jinnouchi
- Dissolution Rites as Sawaki
- Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo as Unosuke Aiu
- Organized Violence
- Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
- Gambler: Victory Without Death
- Three Gamblers as Naojiro Oshima
- Gamblers
- Showdown of Men 2
- Tears of Banishment
- Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
- Code Between Brothers 6 as Chojiro Inagami
- Gambler's World 2 as Shûkichi Hayakawa
- Code Between Brothers 5 as Chojiro Inagami
- Gambler's World as Toshihiko Mikami
- Killer of Seven
1966
- The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
- Japan's Most Chivalrous as Isokichi Yoshida
- Code Between Brothers as Fujikami
- Rub Out the Past as Takeshi Kageyama
- Kingdom of Samurai
- Seven Fugitives
- Three Generations of Yakuza
- Continental Drifter
- Code Between Brothers 2 as Chojiro Inagami
- Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
- Seven Gamblers
- Code Between Brothers 3
1965
- The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
- The Tattooed Lord as Kinshiro Toyama
- Code of Ruffians
- The Domain: The Naniwa Story
- The Boss
- Blood of Revenge as Asajiro Kikuchi
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
- Ankoku gai jingi
- One Man's Chivalry as Kikujirō
- The Gambler
- Expelled from the Kanto Mob
1964
- Gamblers and Racketeers
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- Gambler as Tachibana Isaburo
- Two Lives, Two Yakuza as Shinjiro Kusakari
- Prison Gambler as Tachibana Isaburo
- Homicide as Captain Ando
- Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
1963
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 1 as Shimizu no Jirocho
- The Revenge and the Death
- Life of Hishakaku as Hishakaku
- Eleven Gangsters as Gondo
- Gang Loyalty and Vengeance as Tahara
- Life of Hishakaku 2
- Legends of Honor
- Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers as 菊川志郎
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
- Duel of the Underworld
1962
- Mid-August Commotion as Hiroshi Nakajima
- The Challenge as Kuroki
- The Thinking Leaf
- Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
- South Pacific Waves Are High
- 365 Nights
- The Sentencer
- Gang vs. Gang
- Love at the Fogged Harbor
- Sakura Official
- Gang vs. G-Men as Shiro Kikukawa
- Hell's Kitchen
1961
- The Yellow Climate
- Flower, Storm and Gangster as 'Hong Kong Joe'
- Red Flowers of Hell
- Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery as Kazahaya
- Bride of White Castle
- Lakeside Figure as Kakutaro Ogata
- Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
- Law in Ghost Island as Umihebi-no-Asanosuke
- 鳴門秘帖
- Hell's Juggler
1960
- The Last Gunfight as Tetsuo Maruyama
- The Storm of the Pacific as Lt. Tomonari
- The Secret of the Telegian as Masaru Kirioka
- University Bandits
- The Sand City in Manchuria as Dr. Soda
- Cases of Hanshichi
- Scarier than the Devil
- Deep River Melody
- Sword of Destiny
1959
- Desperado Outpost as Bandit Chieftain
- The Big Boss as Ryuta Komatsu
- Saga of the Vagabonds as Taro Toki
- The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love
- The Forgotten Waterfront
1958
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Kin'emon Okano
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Mother as Yamakawa
- Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Senshiro
- The Spell of the Hidden Gold as Kyoshiro Nemuri
1957
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Senshiro
- Itohan Monogatari as Tomoshichi
- The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2) as Kyoshiro Nemuri
- Jigoku bana
- Oshidori kenkagasa as Ishiro
- Boss of Hades
- Bojô no kawa
- The Last Escape as Dr. Munakata
1956
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Kojiro Sasaki
- The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1) as Kyoshiro Nemuri
- The Underworld as Takao Shoji
- Outlaw island
- Pure Love
- The Hoodlum and the Young Master
1955
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Kojiro Sasaki
- A Man Among Men as Ken
- The Romance of Yushima
- Tactics of Love
1954
- Hanran as Private Nakamura
- The End of a Day as Lieutenant Uji
- Daikichi Konomura as Daikichi Konomura
- Asakusa at Night as Susumu Yamaura
- Yakuza bayashi
- Tree of Love
- Wedding Season
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1953
- Hana no shôgai as 大関和七郎
- At the End of the Clouds
- Yasen kangofu as Navy Lieutenant Yamamoto
- Night in Hawaii
- Ganpeki
- 学生社長 as Jotaro Yamaji