Battles Without Honor and Humanity
CrimeActionDramayakuzahiroshima, japanbetrayalcriminal underworldex soldierpost war japanshōwa era (1926-89)former soldierjitsurokupost-war chaos periodyamiichi
A gritty, violent chronicle of yakuza faction warfare in postwar Japan's black markets, grounded in historical chaos and moral decay.
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono
Hiroki Matsukata
Tetsuya Sakai
Kunie Tanaka
Masakichi Makihara
Eiko Nakamura
Suzue Kunihiro
Tsunehiko Watase
Toshio Arita
Gorō Ibuki
Ueda
Nobuo Kaneko
Yoshio Yamamori
Toshie Kimura
Mrs. Yamamori
Tamio Kawachi
Kanbara Seiichi
Mayumi Nagisa
Akiko Shinjo
Asao Uchida
Okubo Kenichi
Shinichirō Mikami
Shinkai Uichi
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