
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.


Kiichi Nakai
Chiharu Matsuyama

Keiko Masuda

Eiko Nagashima

Risa Tachibana
Ryûtarô Gan

Johnny Ohkura

Takashi Naito

Shinichirō Mikami

Junji Inagawa
Yakuza Warfare is a crime, drama film released in 1991. Directed by Sadao Nakajima, it stars Kiichi Nakai, Chiharu Matsuyama, Keiko Masuda. Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.
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