
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.



Ken Takakura
Masato Dan

Bunta Sugawara
Kenzo Otaki

Tetsuro Tamba
Rinsei

Kōji Wada
Tamotsu Maehara

Hiroko Maki
Maki Tajima

Isao Natsuyagi
Yutaka Nakao

Renji Ishibashi
Pochi / Yoko

Kenji Imai
Tetsufumi

Hideji Ōtaki
Tokugen

Rokkō Toura
Detective Nishimura
The International Gang of Kobe is a crime, drama, thriller film released in 1975 exploring themes of yakuza, gang war, post war japan, foreign occupation, 1940s, kobe japan. Directed by Noboru Tanaka, it stars Ken Takakura, Bunta Sugawara, Tetsuro Tamba. In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
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