Kōji Tsuruta

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. Tsuruta was known to a lot of people as Toshiro Mifune's rival. Tsuruta was a singer as well.

He debuted in "Crowd of Aso" of Shochiku in 1948. He starred in films from Shintoho, Daiei, Toho, and Toei.

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1950 Eden no umi - directed by Noboru Nakamura
1952 Ochazuke no aji - directed by Yasujiro Ozu
1953 A Night in Hawaii(Hawai no yoru)
1954-56 Samurai Trilogy - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- 1955 Duel at Ichijoji Temple
- 1956 Duel at Ganryu Island
1955 A Man Among Men(Dansei No. 1) - directed by Kajiro Yamamoto
1956 Nemuri Kyôshirô burai hikae - directed by Shigeaki Hidaka
1957 Ninjitsu aka Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu bugeicho) - part 1 - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
1958 Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu bugeicho Ninjitsu) - part 2 - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
1958 Chushingura - directed by Kunio Watanabe
1959 Boss of the Underworld(Ankokugai no kaoyaku) - directed by Kihachi Okamoto
1959 The Birth of Japan - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
1960 Secret of the Telegian - directed by Jun Fukuda
1962 Chushingura - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
1963 Jinsei gekijo: hisha kaku - directed by Tadashi Sawashima
1964 Bakuto - directed by Shigehiro Ozawa
1965 Meiji kyokyakuden - sandaime shumei - directed by Tai Kato
1968 Bakuchi-uchi: socho tobaku - directed by Kosaku Yamashita
1971 Kizudarake no Jinsei - directed by Shigehiro Ozawa
1977 Yakuza senso: Nihon no Don - directed by Sadao Nakajima
1985 Saigo no bakuto - directed by Kosaku Yamashita