Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
仁義なき戦い 完結篇
CINEMA1974-06-29
RegionJP
Runtime100 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Kinji Fukasaku delivers the thrilling, gritty conclusion to Japan’s definitive yakuza saga with documentary realism and visceral gunfire.”
Storyline
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
DIRECTOR / Director
Kinji Fukasaku
KEYWORDS
prisonjapanyakuzahiroshimamurdermafiamob bossmob hitshōwa era 1926-89
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Collection: 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.
