
Battles Without Honor and Humanity(1973)
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.


Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...

Jinpachi Nezu
Toshio Aiba

Mieko Harada
Akiko Negishi

Ryudo Uzaki
Shoji Negishi

Shigeru Matsuzaki
Keiichi Mizunuma

Guts Ishimatsu
Motoji Wada

Moeko Ezawa
Toshio's mother
Kyo Hanaki

Masataka Iwao

Ryuji Katagiri

Mitsutaka Tachikawa
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity is a crime, drama film released in 1979. Directed by Eiichi Kudō, it stars Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Ryudo Uzaki. Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
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