Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Movie
Audience Score
72
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NR 1 hr 42 minAction, Drama, CrimeThe Yakuza Papers Collection PosterPart of The Yakuza Papers Collection
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
StarringBunta SugawaraTakeshi KatōAkira Kobayashi
DirectorKinji Fukasaku

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Toei Company
Movie Tags:
gangsteryakuzabetrayalhitmangang war

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.