Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy WarCast and Crew

Movie

Crew

K
Koichi Iiboshi
Story
K
Kozo Horiike
Editor
I
Ikuo Miyoshi
Fight Choreographer
K
Ken Toyonaka
Costume Design
S
Sadaji Yoshida
Director of Photography
Y
Yoshio Shimizu
Set Decoration
G
Genbee Inada
Set Designer
Y
Yoshimitsu Amamori
Art Direction
T
Toru Dobashi
Assistant Director
H
Haruo Nakayama
Lighting 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.