Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

Movie
Audience Score
69
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NR 1 hr 41 minCrime, DramaThe Yakuza Papers Collection PosterPart of The Yakuza Papers Collection
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
StarringBunta SugawaraTatsuo UmemiyaToshio Kurosawa
DirectorKinji Fukasaku

Movie Details

Movie Budget:$125,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$2,140,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Toei Company
Movie Tags:
murderpolice1960syakuzaassassinationgang warhiroshima, japanmob bosssports bettingcrackdown

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.