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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head (1975)

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head poster
Original title
新仁義なき戦い 組長の首
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Genre
crime film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
15
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A yakuza clan in Kyushu faces violent internal power struggles. The movie follows the escalating conflicts between its members.

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What happens

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head (Japanese: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首, Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai: Kumicho no Kubi) is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film details the internal conflicts between members of the Owada family on the Kyushu side of the Kanmon Straits. It is the unrelated sequel to New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) and was followed by the third and final unrelated film in the series, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss (1976). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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