
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.



Hiroki Matsukata
Masayuki Aratani

Koji Tsuruta
Takao Sugata
Yutaka Enatsu
Yoshihiro Omatsu

Sumiko Hidaka
Matriarch Ishioka

Guts Ishimatsu
Daimatsu

Shigeru Izumiya
Masaru Ohara

Shunsuke Kariya
Toru Kameishi

Ryô Kinomoto
Isao Kadoma

Kyōsuke Machida
Tomoda Hisashi

Naoya Makoto
Kiyoshi Kawato
The Last True Yakuza is a drama, crime film released in 1985 exploring themes of yakuza. Directed by Kōsaku Yamashita, it stars Hiroki Matsukata, Koji Tsuruta, Yutaka Enatsu. A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
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