Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Overview
While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed "alternate history" that had been ignored by the "official" factual record.
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Cast & Crew
Bunta Sugawara
as Shozo Hirono
Tatsuo Umemiya
as Shinichi Iwai
Toshio Kurosawa
as Shigeru Takemoto
Kunie Tanaka
as Masakichi Makihara
Shingo Yamashiro
as Shoichi Eda
Ichirō Ogura
as Hiroshi Nozaki
Akio Hasegawa
as Yasuki Fukuda
Shinichirō Mikami
as Hidemitsu Kawada
Isao Natsuyagi
as Hiroshi Sugimoto
Yoko Horikoshi
as Aiko Mitsukawa
