Battles Without Honor and Humanity

仁義なき戦い

1973

7.4 из 10

110 votes

Popularity

0.8

Duration

99 min / 1 hour 39 min

Budget

$150 000

Fees in the world

-

In collections

14

Release date

1973.01.13

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Trailer

Cast

Hiroki Matsukata

Masakichi Makihara

Tsunehiko Watase

Yoshio Yamamori

Kanbara Seiichi

Shinichirō Mikami

Nakahara Shigeto

Shōtarō Hayashi

Matsunaga Takeshi

Seizō Fukumoto

Shimonaka Ryuji

Yamakata Shinichi

Constable Maekawa

Sugitani Nobuhiko

Takashi Noguchi

Yashiro Mitsuharu

Kōjiro Shirakawa

Minken Karasawa

Chief Investigator Nakamura

Takuzō Kawatani

Kawanishi Tamotsu

Terauchi Hachiro

Nishitani Hideo

Detective Katani

Yasumori Hikita

Detective Komuro

Yanagida Toshiji

Yûsuke Tsukasa

Tetsuo Fujisawa

Kuramitsu Masayoshi

Utsumori Noburo

Yasuo Matsumoto

Kiyotaka Nishiyama

Hiroishi Kinsaku

Toshio Tomogane

Clothing Shopkeeper

Yasushi Ōshiro

Toshio Kitagawa

Hiroshi Wakasugi

Noburo Uchimoto

Rinichi Yamamoto

Akira Kobayashi

Stills

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.