New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974)

Original title

新仁義なき戦い

Directed by

Kinji Fukasaku

Genre

crime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

15

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A yakuza film that starts a new series with a standalone story. It follows gangsters navigating violent turf wars and betrayals in postwar Japan.

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What happens

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 新仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai) is a 1974 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It begins a new series of films with unrelated plots, based on the director's earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity pentalogy. New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head followed in 1975 and New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss in 1976. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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