Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Apr 28, 1973

1h 39m

★ 7.4

Overview

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Shozo Hirono

Bunta Sugawara

Shoji Yamanaka

Kinya Kitaoji

Yasuko Uehara

Meiko Kaji

Katsutoshi Otomo

Sonny Chiba

Tsuneo Muraoka

Hiroshi Nawa

Hiroshi Matsunaga

Mikio Narita

Koichi Shimada

Gin Maeda

Kunimatsu Takanashi

Asao Koike

Shozo Eda

Shingo Yamashiro

Keisuke Nakahara

Hideo Murota

Kanichi Tokimori

Tatsuo Endō

Choji Otomo

Yoshi Katō

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