Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

7.4

Jan 13 1973

2h 39m

Drama, Crime

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

Bunta Sugawara

Bunta Sugawara

Shozo Hirono

Hiroki Matsukata

Hiroki Matsukata

Tetsuya Sakai

Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka

Masakichi Makihara

Eiko Nakamura

Eiko Nakamura

Suzue Kunihiro

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