Movie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Details
- Release date
- 1973-01-13
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Toei Company
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Bunta Sugawara as Shozo Hirono
- Hiroki Matsukata as Tetsuya Sakai
- Kunie Tanaka as Masakichi Makihara
- Eiko Nakamura as Suzue Kunihiro
- Tsunehiko Watase as Toshio Arita
- Gorō Ibuki as Ueda
- Nobuo Kaneko as Yoshio Yamamori
- Toshie Kimura as Mrs. Yamamori
- Tamio Kawachi as Kanbara Seiichi
- Mayumi Nagisa as Akiko Shinjo
- Asao Uchida as Okubo Kenichi
- Shinichirō Mikami as Shinkai Uichi
Crew
- Kinji Fukasaku - Director
- Kazuo Kasahara - Writer
- Koichi Iiboshi - Story
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