Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

Movie
Audience Score
73
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NR 1 hr 40 minCrime, Action, DramaThe Yakuza Papers Collection PosterPart of The Yakuza Papers Collection
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
StarringBunta SugawaraJō ShishidoNobuo Yana
DirectorKinji Fukasaku

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Toei Company
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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.