Battles Without Honor and Humanity

About Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity is a 1973 crime film. Released in January 1973, it runs 99 minutes.

Bunta Sugawara stars as Shozo Hirono, Hiroki Matsukata as Tetsuya Sakai, Kunie Tanaka as Masakichi Makihara, and Eiko Nakamura as Suzue Kunihiro. Written by Kazuo Kasahara.

Shelv files it under yakuza, criminal underworld, ex soldier, and shōwa era (1926-89). In the United States it streams on ARROW and Philo.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, and The Blood of Wolves make useful companions to Battles Without Honor and Humanity, all filed under betrayal. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 128 TMDB voters.