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Battles without Honor and Humanity

Kinji Fukasaku

Japan1973 99min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Based on the prison diary of a yakuza involved in the wars, Sugawara is distinguished through extreme, callous brutality. The villainous godfather Yamamori initiates him into his ruthless gang, which inevitably wins the power-struggle through titanic, gruesome battles. Once more, Japan’s highly distinguished director of ultra-violence, Fukasaku, elevates brutality and abrupt ending to new levels as he emphasizes the degeneration of the feudal samurai’s code of ethics.

Diretor

Kinji Fukasaku

Kinji Fukasaku is the director of Toei's legendary yakuza series, <Battles Without Honor and Humanity>. He worked as an assistant director at Toei from 1953 until 1961, when he burst into the limelight with the daring film noir, <Greed In Broad Daylight>(1961). Fukasaku worked tirelessly thereafter, often making 3 films in a year. <Battles Without Honor and Humanity> broke box office records, turned the yakuza genre upside down and placed the director in the pantheon of Japanese masters