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While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed "alternate history" that had been ignored by the "official" factual record.

  • Number of Movies: 5
  • Revenue: $2,140,000

Featured Cast

  1. Bunta Sugawara

    Bunta Sugawara

    Shozo Hirono

  2. Takeshi Katō

    Takeshi Katō

    Noboru Uchimoto, Noburo Uchimoto

  3. Tatsuo Umemiya

    Tatsuo Umemiya

    Hiroshi Wakasugi, Shinichi Iwai

  4. Hiroki Matsukata

    Hiroki Matsukata

    Tetsuya Sakai, Shoichi Fujita, Ichioka

  5. Kinya Kitaoji

    Kinya Kitaoji

    Shoji Yamanaka, Tamotsu Matsumura

  6. Jō Shishido

    Jō Shishido

    Katsutoshi Otomo

  7. Kunie Tanaka

    Kunie Tanaka

    Masakichi Makihara

  8. Akira Kobayashi

    Akira Kobayashi

    , Akira Takeda

  9. Nobuo Yana

    Nobuo Yana

    Isamu Kasai, Ryôsuke Kaga, Takuya Asano

  10. Meiko Kaji

    Meiko Kaji

    Yasuko Uehara

  11. Toshio Kurosawa

    Toshio Kurosawa

    Shigeru Takemoto

  12. Nobuo Kaneko

    Nobuo Kaneko

    Yoshio Yamamori

  13. Mikio Narita

    Mikio Narita

    Hiroshi Matsunaga,

  14. Sonny Chiba

    Sonny Chiba

    Katsutoshi Otomo

Featured Crew

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

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.

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

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