Movie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Overview
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Details
- Release date
- 1973-04-28
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Toei Company
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Bunta Sugawara as Shozo Hirono
- Kinya Kitaoji as Shoji Yamanaka
- Meiko Kaji as Yasuko Uehara
- Sonny Chiba as Katsutoshi Otomo
- Hiroshi Nawa as Tsuneo Muraoka
- Mikio Narita as Hiroshi Matsunaga
- Gin Maeda as Koichi Shimada
- Asao Koike as Kunimatsu Takanashi
- Shingo Yamashiro as Shozo Eda
- Hideo Murota as Keisuke Nakahara
- Tatsuo Endō as Kanichi Tokimori
- Yoshi Katō as Choji Otomo
Crew
- Kinji Fukasaku - Director
- Kazuo Kasahara - Screenplay
- Koichi Iiboshi - Story
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