Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono
Hiroki Matsukata
Tetsuya Sakai
Kunie Tanaka
Makihara Masakichi
Eiko Nakamura
Suzue Kunihiro
Tsunehiko Watase
Toshio Arita
Gorō Ibuki
Ueda
Nobuo Kaneko
Yamamori
Asao Uchida
Okubo Kenichi
Toshie Kimura
Mrs. Yamamori
Shinichirō Mikami
Shinkai Uichi
Tamio Kawachi
Kanbara Seiichi
Hiroshi Nawa
Doi
Mayumi Nagisa
Akiko Shinjo
Shinji Takano
Kaneko Shoichi
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Koichi Iiboshi
Writer
Harumi Sone
Shuji Yano
Kinji Nakamura
Nakahara Shigeto
Kazuo Kasahara
Writer
Shōtarō Hayashi
Matsunaga Takeshi
Toshiaki Tsushima
Composer
Seizō Fukumoto
Shimonaka Ryuji
Sadaji Yoshida
Cinematographer
Shintarō Miyamoto
Editor
Takatoshi Suzuki
ProductionDesigner
Keiji Takamiya
Yamakata Shinichi
Asao Koike
Narrator
Takashi Ebata
Constable Maekawa
Naotsugu Uzaki
Sugitani Nobuhiko
Takashi Noguchi
Iwami Masuo
Hitoshi Ōmae
Nogata Mamoru
Kazutarō Kuni
Kakiuchi Jiro
Gorō Ōki
Otake Isamu
Keiko Kojima
Keiko
Akira Hirasawa
Yashiro Mitsuharu
Ryō Nishida
Takano Shinji
Kōjiro Shirakawa
Furuya Makoto
Masaru Shiga
Yokoyama Nobuo
Minken Karasawa
Chief Investigator Nakamura
Hiroko Sakaki
Akemi
Chie Kobayashi
Yamashiro Sawa
Ryūko Azuma
Kunihiro Tome
Takuzō Kawatani
Ryoichi Enami
Yukio Miyagi
Kawanishi Tamotsu
Kenji Ikeda
Terauchi Hachiro
Tsuiyuki Sasaki
Nishitani Hideo
Yoshiki Yamada
Detective Katani
Yasumori Hikita
Detective Komuro
Masataka Iwao
Kinagashi
Shintarō Mibu
Yanagida Toshiji
Kuniomi Kitani
Kawanami Tokio
Yûsuke Tsukasa
Nukita Hideo
Tsuyoshi Arita
Mizutani Bunji
Tetsuo Fujisawa
Kuramitsu Masayoshi
Hideo Fujimoto
Utsumori Noburo
Yasuo Matsumoto
Ishido Torao
Kiyotaka Nishiyama
Yoshinaga Shun
Satoru Nabe
Anjo Keisuke
Teruo Fujinaga
Hiroishi Kinsaku
Toshio Tomogane
Wakita Noboru
Tamaro Murata
Clothing Shopkeeper
Shinji Oda
Keeper
Ryuji Komine
Mikuni Man
Yasushi Ōshiro
Keeper
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 13, 1973
Original Name仁義なき戦い
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Budget$150,000
Genres
Wiki.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai) is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara adapts a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi, that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō Minō. It is the first film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years.
The violent, documentary-like film chronicles the underworld tribulations of Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), a young ex-soldier and street thug-turned yakuza in post-war Hiroshima Prefecture. Starting in the open-air black markets of bombed-out Hiroshima in 1946, the film spans a period of more than ten years. The plot consists of a changing of the guard of new families and organizations with the same feuds and people, punctuated by the gritty violence.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity won the 1974 Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Bunta Sugawara) and Best Screenplay (Kazuo Kasahara). In 2009, the magazine named it fifth on a list of the Top 10 Japanese Films of All Time. Due to the series' commercial and critical popularity it was followed by another three-part series, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity. The film is often called the "Japanese Godfather" and marks a departure from traditional yakuza movies which had, for the most part, been tales of chivalry set in pre-war Japan. The overall tone of the series is bleak, violent and chaotic, expressing the futility of the struggles between yakuza families. In the western market it is also known under the titles Tarnished Code of Yakuza (Australia), War Without a Code, and The Yakuza Papers.