Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final EpisodeCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

B
Bunta Sugawara
as Shozo Hirono
J
Jō Shishido
as Katsutoshi Otomo
N
Nobuo Yana
as Ryôsuke Kaga
N
Nobuo Kaneko
as Yoshio Yamamori
H
Hiroki Matsukata
as Ichioka
A
Akira Kobayashi
as Akira Takeda
K
Kunie Tanaka
as Masakichi Makihara
A
Asao Uchida
as Kenichi Okubo
S
Shingo Yamashiro
as Shozo Eda
K
Kenichi Sakuragi
as Akio Saeki
J
Junkichi Orimoto
as Hideo Hayakawa
Y
Yumiko Nogawa
as Kaoru
R
Ryō Nishida
K
Kinya Kitaoji
as Tamotsu Matsumura
T
Takuzō Kawatani
R
Ryuji Katagiri
H
Hiroko Fuji
G
Gorō Ibuki
as Atsushi Ujiie
S
Seizō Fukumoto
T
Takashi Noguchi
H
Harumi Sone
Y
Yasuhiro Suzuki
as Sakichi Sugita

Crew

K
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
K
Kazuo Kasahara
Screenplay
K
Koichi Iiboshi
Story
S
Sadaji Yoshida
Director of Photography
T
Toshiaki Tsushima
Original Music Composer
T
Takatoshi Suzuki
Production Design

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.