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We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity' right now, here are some finer points about the Toei Company drama flick.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity starring Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Eiko Nakamura has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 39 min, and a scheduled release date of .
It received a user score of 74/100 on TMDb, which collated reviews from 113 top users.
Curious about the story behind it? Here's the plot: "In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza."
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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.
