Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

Apr 5, 1980

3h 44m

★ 5.5

Overview

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.

Genres

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Shozo Hirono

Bunta Sugawara

Tetsuya Sakai

Hiroki Matsukata

Yoshio Yamamori

Nobuo Kaneko

Masakichi Makihara

Kunie Tanaka

Seiichi Kanbara

Tamio Kawachi

Katsutoshi Otomo

Sonny Chiba

Yasuko Uehara

Meiko Kaji

Shoichi Eda

Shingo Yamashiro

Tsuneo Muraoka

Hiroshi Nawa

Akira Takeda

Akira Kobayashi

Tatsuo Akashi

Tetsuro Tamba

Shinichi Iwai

Tatsuo Umemiya

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

8.0

Nobody Knows

Aug 7, 2004

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

6.5

The Way of Drama

May 11, 1944

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.

4.9

Painful Bliss: Final Twist

Feb 1, 1977

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.

6.6

Black Rain

Sep 22, 1989

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

6.3

Taxi 2

Mar 25, 2000

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

0.0

Cape of the North

Apr 3, 1976

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

6.9

Destroy All Monsters

Aug 1, 1968

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

7.3

Battle Royale

Dec 16, 2000

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

3.5

Shadow Realm

Jul 27, 2002

Shadow Realm is a compilation of two episodes planned for the short-lived Fox Network television series Night Visions. Each episode contained two stories and were originally hosted by musician/actor/writer Henry Rollins. The Sci-Fi Channel acquired the rights to broadcast the episodes, including the last three unaired episodes and strung two of them together as an anthology movie. Title sequences and end credits were changed and the Henry Rollins introductions were removed from the final product.

6.9

Flags of Our Fathers

Oct 19, 2006

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

8.0

The Naked Island

Nov 23, 1960

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

7.9

Throne of Blood

Jan 15, 1957

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

8.1

Red Beard

Apr 3, 1965

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

8.3

Ikiru

Oct 9, 1952

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

7.5

Kikujiro

Jun 5, 1999

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

0.0

OSARU-CHAN

Mar 30, 2021

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly to thieves.

6.0

Chronicles of the Beyond

Mar 10, 2009

Watch as everyday people go from their safe, simple lives into a realm of the supernatural.