
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.


A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
Noboru Andō
Kawada

Asao Koike
Tsukada

Tomisaburō Wakayama
Warden

Hiroko Sakuramachi
Hisako

Masaomi Kondo
Suichi

Shingo Yamashiro

Michitarō Mizushima

Hōsei Komatsu

Minoru Hodaka

Kin Sugai
Eighteen Years in Prison is a drama, crime film released in 1967 exploring themes of yakuza. Directed by Tai Katō, it stars Noboru Andō, Asao Koike, Tomisaburō Wakayama. A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
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