
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.


Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono

Takeshi Katō
Noboru Uchimoto

Akira Kobayashi
Akira Takeda

Mikio Narita
Hiroshi Matsunaga

Kunie Tanaka
Masakichi Makihara

Shingo Yamashiro
Shoichi Eda

Nobuo Kaneko
Yoshio Yamamori

Hideo Murota
Hideo Hayakawa

Tatsuo Umemiya
Shinichi Iwai

Asao Uchida
Kenichi Okubo
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War is a action, drama, crime film released in 1973 exploring themes of assassination, hitman, gangster, yakuza, gang war, blackout. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, it stars Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Katō, Akira Kobayashi. Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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