Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

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Audience Score
74
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NR 1 hr 40 minCrime, DramaThe Yakuza Papers Collection PosterPart of The Yakuza Papers Collection
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
StarringBunta SugawaraKinya KitaojiMeiko Kaji
DirectorKinji Fukasaku

Movie Details

Movie Budget:$125,000
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Toei Company

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.