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   <div class="large-6 columns">'''Battles Without Honor and Humanity''' ([[:Category:1973|1973]], [[:Category:Japan|Japan]]) is a [[:Category:Chambara/Yakuza|Yakuza Crime]] film directed by [[:Category:Kinji Fukasaku|Kinji Fukasaku]].  
   <div class="large-6 columns">'''Battles Without Honor and Humanity''' ([[:Category:1973|1973]], [[:Category:Japan|Japan]]) is a [[:Category:Chambara/Yakuza|Yakuza Crime]] film directed by [[:Category:Kinji Fukasaku|Kinji Fukasaku]].  
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*'''Referenced in''': '''[http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Kill_Bill Kill Bill (2003)]''' - The film's updated theme by Hotei Tomoyasu is featured on the film's soundtrack. 
*'''Featured in''': [[Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Collection]] | [[Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Volume 1-5]]
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====Main Details====
 
===Main Details===
* Released in 1973
* Released in 1973
* Color
* Color
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* Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
* Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
* Written by Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
* Written by Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
* Starring Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, iko Nakamura, Tsunehiko Watase, Goro Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko
* Starring Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka
* Original Music by Toshiaki Tsushima
* Original Music by Toshiaki Tsushima
* Cinematography by Sadaji Yoshida
* Cinematography by Sadaji Yoshida
====Also Known As====
 
===Plot Summary===
*During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.
 
===Also Known As===
* Jingi naki tatakai (Japan) (original title)
* Jingi naki tatakai (Japan) (original title)
* Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Canada) (English title)
* Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Canada) (English title)
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* The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (USA) (DVD title)
* The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (USA) (DVD title)
* War Without a Code
* War Without a Code
====Synopsis====
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai?) is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara adapts a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi, that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō Minō. It is the first film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years. The violent, documentary-like film chronicles the underworld tribulations of Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), a young ex-soldier and street thug in post-war Hiroshima Prefecture. Starting in the open-air black markets of bombed-out Hiroshima in 1946, the film spans a period of more than ten years. The plot consists of a changing of the guard of new families and organizations with the same feuds and people, punctuated by the gritty violence. Battles Without Honor and Humanity won the 1974 Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Bunta Sugawara) and Best Screenplay (Kazuo Kasahara). In 2009, the magazine named it fifth on a list of the Top 10 Japanese Films of All Time. Due to the series' commercial and critical popularity it was followed by another three-part series, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity. The film is often called the "Japanese Godfather," and marks a departure from traditional yakuza movies which had, for the most part, been tales of chivalry set in pre-war Japan. The overall tone of the series is bleak, violent and chaotic, expressing the futility of the struggles between yakuza families. In the western market it is also known under the titles, Tarnished Code of Yakuza (Australia), War Without a Code, and The Yakuza Papers. Set in post-war Japan, Fukasaku drew on his experiences as a child during World War II for Battles Without Honor and Humanity. At fifteen he worked with other children in a munitions factory that was regularly bombed. The director recalled "even though we were friends working together, the only thing we would be thinking of was self-preservation. We would try to get behind each other or beneath dead bodies to avoid the bombs.... I also had to clean up all the dead bodies.... I'm sure those experiences have influenced the way I look at violence." (Wikipedia)
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Revision as of 05:39, 12 November 2022

Main Details

  • Released in 1973
  • Color
  • Running Time: 99 min | France: 100 min
  • Production Co: Toei Company
  • Distribution Co: Sofradis | Toei Company
  • Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
  • Written by Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
  • Starring Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka
  • Original Music by Toshiaki Tsushima
  • Cinematography by Sadaji Yoshida

Plot Summary

  • During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Also Known As

  • Jingi naki tatakai (Japan) (original title)
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Canada) (English title)
  • Battles Without Honour and Humanity (International) (English title)
  • Combat sans code d'honneur (France)
  • Lotta senza codice d'onore (Italy) (DVD title)
  • Tarnished Code of Yakuza (Australia)
  • The Yakuza Papers
  • The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (USA) (DVD title)
  • War Without a Code
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