Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · 99 min · ★ 7.3 · Crime, Action, Drama
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku · Written by Kazuo Kasahara
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Bunta Sugawara Shozo Hirono -
Hiroki Matsukata Tetsuya Sakai -
Kunie Tanaka Masakichi Makihara -
Eiko Nakamura Suzue Kunihiro -
Tsunehiko Watase Toshio Arita -
Gorō Ibuki Ueda -
Nobuo Kaneko Yoshio Yamamori -
Toshie Kimura Mrs. Yamamori -
Tamio Kawachi Kanbara Seiichi -
Mayumi Nagisa Akiko Shinjo -
Asao Uchida Okubo Kenichi -
Shinichirō Mikami Shinkai Uichi
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