
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.


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.

Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono

Tatsuo Umemiya
Shinichi Iwai

Toshio Kurosawa
Shigeru Takemoto

Kunie Tanaka
Masakichi Makihara

Shingo Yamashiro
Shoichi Eda

Ichirō Ogura
Hiroshi Nozaki

Akio Hasegawa
Yasuki Fukuda

Shinichirō Mikami
Hidemitsu Kawada

Isao Natsuyagi
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Yoko Horikoshi
Aiko Mitsukawa
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics is a crime, drama film released in 1974 exploring themes of assassination, police, yakuza, gang war, hiroshima, japan, murder. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, it stars Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya, Toshio Kurosawa. 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.
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