Film

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima 1973

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

  • Drama, Crime, Action
  • 99 min

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.

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  • Graphic violence

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Grave, classical in form, earnest and relentless.

  • gravecomic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • earnestironic
  • contemplativerelentless
  • warmbleak

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