Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

About Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

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.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) is a crime film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Its themes are assassination, yakuza, criminal underworld, and gang war.

Bunta Sugawara takes the lead as Shozo Hirono, Tatsuo Umemiya as Shinichi Iwai, Toshio Kurosawa as Shigeru Takemoto, and Kunie Tanaka as Masakichi Makihara. At 101 minutes long, it arrived in January 1974.

The screenplay is by Kazuo Kasahara. In the United States it streams on Fandor Amazon Channel, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel, and Philo.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, The Blood of Wolves, and Battles Without Honor and Humanity make useful companions to Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, all filed under 1960s. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 51 votes.