
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.



Teruo Yoshida

Bunta Sugawara

Masumi Tachibana

Yukie Kagawa

Yumiko Katayama

Yoshiko Fujita
Shin'ichirô Hayashi
Toyozō Yamamoto

Ichirō Sugai
Hideo Kō
Yakuza Law is a action, crime, drama film released in 1969 exploring themes of yakuza. Directed by Teruo Ishii, it stars Teruo Yoshida, Bunta Sugawara, Masumi Tachibana. A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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