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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in HiroshimaCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

Crew

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Sadaji Yoshida
Director of Photography
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Akira Shimizu
Assistant Director
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Shintarō Miyamoto
Editor
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Koichi Iiboshi
Story
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Masayoshi Mizoguchi
Sound
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Haruo Nakayama
Gaffer
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Kunishirô Matsubara
Set Decoration
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Kôichi Kondô
Set Designer

The Yakuza Papers Collection

While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed "alternate history" that had been ignored by the "official" factual record.