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Released , 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity' stars Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Eiko Nakamura The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 39 min, and received a user score of 74 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 113 experienced users.
Curious to know what the movie's about? 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.
