THE YAKUZA PAPERS VOL. 1: BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) and his buddies find themselves in a new war between fractious and ambitious yakuza. After joining boss Yamamori, Shozo is drawn into a feud with his sworn brother's family, the Dois. But that's where the chivalry of traditional yakuza film ends and the hypocrisy, betrayal, and assassinations begin. A rare and critical perspective on the history of Japan after World War II, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY is a tour-de-force that revolutionized the yakuza genre and launched Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara to international stardom.
• Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Eiko Nakamura, Tsunehiko Watase, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Toshie Kimura, Tamio Kawachi, Mayumi Nagisa, Asao Uchida, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Hiroshi Nawa, Shinji Takano, Keiji Takamiya, Shôtarô Hayashi, Kinji Nakamura, Harumi Sone, Asao Koike, Takashi Ebata, Naotsugu Uzaki, Takashi Noguchi, Hitoshi Ômae, Kazutarô Kuni, Gorô Ôki, Keiko Kojima, Akira Hirasawa, Ryô Nishida, Kojiro Shirakawa, Masaru Shiga, Minken Karasawa, Hiroko Sakaki, Chie Kobayashi, Takiko Azumi, Takuzô Kawatani, Yukio Miyagi, Kenji Ikeda, Shunji Sasaki, Seizô Fukumoto, Yoshiki Yamada, Yasumori Hikita, Masataka Iwao, Shintarô Mibu, Kuniomi Kitani, Yûsuke Tsukasa, Tsuyoshi Arita, Tetsuo Fujisawa, Hideo Fujimoto, Yasuo Matsumoto, Kiyotaka Nishiyama, Satoru Nabe, Teruo Fujinaga, Toshio Tomogane, Tamaro Murata, Shinji Oda, Kazuo Komine, Yasushi Oshiro, Toshio Matsuda, Hiroshi Hatano, Ryûji Katagiri, Aki Takagi, Toshio Kitagawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kinji Fukasaku, Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara, Kôji Shundô, Gorô Kusakabe, Sadaji Yoshida, Shintarô Miyamoto, Toshiaki Tsushima, Masayoshi Mizoguchi, Takatoshi Suzuki
• Director: Kinji Fukasaku
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: Toei Co. Ltd., Home Vision Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie