Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Jan 13, 1973

1h 39m

★ 7.3

Overview

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

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Shozo Hirono

Bunta Sugawara

Tetsuya Sakai

Hiroki Matsukata

Masakichi Makihara

Kunie Tanaka

Suzue Kunihiro

Eiko Nakamura

Toshio Arita

Tsunehiko Watase

Ueda

Gorō Ibuki

Yoshio Yamamori

Nobuo Kaneko

Mrs. Yamamori

Toshie Kimura

Kanbara Seiichi

Tamio Kawachi

Akiko Shinjo

Mayumi Nagisa

Okubo Kenichi

Asao Uchida

Shinkai Uichi

Shinichirō Mikami

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